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• 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...

• CAN Europe response: EU Foreign Affairs Minister Council Conclusions on 21st February 2022

  On 21 February, EU Foreign Affairs Ministers met in Brussels and adopted the conclusions “EU Climate Diplomacy: climate diplomacy: accelerating the Implementation of Glasgow outcomes”, alongside with a press release issued specifically on that matter. This comes 100 days after world’s governments met in Glasgow for the 26th UN climate change conference COP26. CAN Europe...

• PR DRAFT

  PRESS RELEASE FOSSIL GAS DRESSED UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE: EU’S NEW MEASURES NOT IN LINE WITH CLIMATE OBJECTIVES The Commission’s energy proposals still give a role to fossil fuels Buildings’ transformations far from promoting needed energy savings   Brussels, 15th December 2021 – The 2nd part of the ‘Fit for 55’ climate and energy...

• The EU can’t afford labelling fossil gas and nuclear as green

  BLOG POST The EU Taxonomy complementary Delegated Act tabled by the European Commission is incompatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C and with the EU’s 2030 climate targets The EU taxonomy – a classification system aiming to determine which activities genuinely contribute to the green transition – was meant to create a gold standard for...

• Busting the myth: the chronology of coal use in Serbia

  OP-ED By Mirjana Jovanović (Belgrade Open School), Mirko Popović (Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute) and Viktor Berishaj (CAN Europe) Busting the myth: the chronology of coal use in Serbia 28 December 2021, Belgrade – The recent collapse of the coal based energy system in Serbia, debunks the popular myth of coal’s reliability. On December 12,...

• We are looking for a Human Resources Coordinator

  CAN Europe, Europe’s largest coalition working on climate and energy issues, is currently seeking an  experienced and dynamic Human Resources Coordinator to join our team. This position will offer the  successful candidate an opportunity to be at the center of the largest movement for global change that  will affect people and the planet for centuries...

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