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• Representatives of EU citizens want bold climate action at COP27 – now EU ministers should follow

  The European Parliament passes a UN Climate Summit resolution asking for increased emissions reductions, fossil fuels phase out and scaled up climate finance, and a loss and damage finance facility The Parliament’s position should be a springboard for next Monday’s Council conclusions, which will set the EU’s bar in the forthcoming climate negotiations in Egypt...
  • Global Transition

• Call by 180 unions, civil society, think tanks and academics for democratic reform of EU fiscal rules

  180 signatories call for a reform of the EU’s economic governance framework towards green public investment and environmental wellbeing The letter is sent prior to European Commission releasing a proposal to reform the EU fiscal framework Read the letter with the list of signatories Translations are available in German, French, Polish and Greek. 17 October 2022,...

• EU Gas Package must take into account new geopolitical and energy market reality

  To: EU energy ministers, EU 27 Brussels, October 10, 2022 Dear Minister,   Last year, the European Commission published its proposed reforms of the European Union’s gas market rules, called the Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Market Package (referred to as ‘the Gas Package’). The proposed legislation aimed to set out rules to support the decarbonisation...

• Climate action is a legal duty. After decades of empty promises, it is time for real action and accountability.

  Governments of the world Climate action is a legal duty. After decades of empty promises, it is time for real action and accountability. Climate change is here now. Ecosystems are collapsing at an unprecedented rate. Vast regions of the world are becoming uninhabitable. Billions of people are facing the prospect of a dangerous and uncertain...

• European Commission must guarantee a meaningful role for civil society in ‘RebuildUkraine’

  European Commission must guarantee a meaningful role for civil society in ‘RebuildUkraine’ Statement by European and Ukrainian civil society organisations Published during the Ukraine Recovery Conference, Lugano (Switzerland), 5 July 2022   European civil society has been standing and continues to stand in solidarity with Ukraine and its people in the face of Russian aggression...

• Still wanted: A European climate champion!

  Deal on Council negotiation position on EU climate laws finally reached, but fails to face up to urgency of the climate emergency and the need to support vulnerable people in the transition Ambition of Fit for 55 package continues to not be in line with 1.5°C goal  Position still contains major flaws: Social Climate Fund...

• NGO call to safeguard national climate targets

  June 23 2022 Dear Minister of EnvironmentDear Permanent Representative As the Council adopts its general approach on the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR), we – the signatories of this letter – would like to draw your attention to the necessity to safeguard the integrity of national climate targets for the achievement of 2030 mitigation goals and...

• Statement of the Coalition for Higher Ambition in the Fit for 55 debate

  Businesses, investor groups, local and regional authorities, trade unions and civil society groups come together to demand urgent and bold action from EU Environment Ministers   Europeans are now facing multiple crises: the consequences of a global pandemic, adverse social consequences of the economic downturn, the tragic invasion of Ukraine, environmental degradation, and dangerous climate...
  • Climate

• PRESS RELEASE Civil society to political leaders: The Western Balkans are part of Europe and need tangible climate change action to move away from fossil fuels

  Press release in Serbian: Saopštenje za medije Civil society to political leaders: The Western Balkans are part of Europe and need tangible climate change action to move away from fossil fuels Ahead of the EU-Western Balkan leaders’ meeting, NGOs claim in a letter to EU and Western Balkan officials that the Green Agenda for the...

• (CAN Europe) Explainer: What’s going on at the UN climate talks in Bonn and why the EU behaviour matters

  More than 6 months after COP26 in Glasgow, governments are meeting during the next two weeks for the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, the host city to the UNFCCC Secretariat (UN Climate Change). These “intersessional” negotiations usually take place every mid-year in preparation for the big UN climate summits, the so-called Conference of the...

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