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• 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...
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• 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...

• Op-ed: How rooftop solar PV can help turn the gas valves off

  Citizens’ demand for rooftop solar photovoltaics is rapidly increasing, and governments should intervene through incentives and better permitting procedures, writes Seda Orhan. The new EU Solar Strategy published by the European Commission last week says, “panel by panel, the infinite energy of the sun will help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels”, so what is...

• Urgent call to veto Commission proposal on releasing allowances from the Market Stability Reserve to finance REPowerEU measures

    May 2022 Dear Member of the European Parliament, We write to you to express our grave concern about the European Commission’s proposal to generate EUR 20 billion from the auctioning of allowances held in the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) in order to finance measures under the REPowerEU...

• EU’S NEW ENERGY PLAN ‘REPowerEU’ SHOULD NOT BECOME A SMOKESCREEN FOR LOCK-IN TO FOSSIL FUELS

  The European Commission’s plan for energy security includes a boost of renewables and an energy savings plan which is a good step but insufficient to deliver energy security for all and the Paris climate agreement ‘REPowerEU’ still relies on new fossil fuel imports from third countries, risking exploitation and increasing exposure to dangerous, unreliable fossil...

• Civil Society and Industry Associations Call for an End to Free Pollution Permits for Industry

  In a joint effort 28 organisations, including climate NGOs and industry associations, have sent a letter to members of the European Parliament Environment (ENVI) committee calling them to support higher climate ambition and phase out free allowances to polluting industries as part of the revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The Parliament’s Industry...

• The EU Emissions Trading System: Time to end free pollution permits for big polluters

  Europe is in the midst of a massive transformation. Tackling the climate crisis as part of a number of other environmental, health and social crises, requires us to rethink, reinvent and redesign together how we live, what we produce and consume. Russia’s  invasion of Ukraine has yet again exposed how unhealthy our relationship to energy...

• Repowering the EU?

  POLICY BRIEFING Mobilising EU financial instruments and policies to accelerate the phase out of the EU’s dependence on fossil fuels Background This policy briefing builds on CAN Europe’s recommendations for an accelerated, secure and Paris compatible energy transition in the context of the invasion of Ukraine  by further detailing measures to mobilise EU financial instruments...

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