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• The Commission must live up to its European Green Deal promise and stop subsidies to fossil fuel companies, experts warn

  PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 8 October 2021 European climate, environmental and health NGOs have sent an open letter to the European Commission urging it to ensure that bloc-wide guidelines on energy subsidies do not allow taxpayers’ money to be used for bailing out fossil fuel operators. The world is watching and the EU needs to show...

• CAN Europe recommendations on ECOFIN Council Conclusions on Climate Finance

  LETTER Brussels, 1 October 2021 Dear Finance Minister, CAN Europe recommendations on ECOFIN Council Conclusions on Climate Finance   On Tuesday 5 October 2021 you will adopt Council Conclusions on climate finance at Economic and Financial Affairs Council. The EU and each of its Member States should get behind a political outcome at COP26 that...

• Mediterranean energy, gas, and climate policies

  Letter Brussels, 29 September 2021 To: President and co-president of the Union for the Mediterranean, Secretary General Mr Nasser Kamel, Deputy Secretary General on Energy & Climate Action Mr Grammenos Mastrojeni, Representatives from Member States, Senior Officials, Mediterranean energy, gas, and climate policies Dear sirs/madams, The publication of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Net ...

• CAN Europe recommendations to EU Environment Ministers on the PreCOP and ENVI Council Meeting

  Letter   Brussels, 27 September 2021   The EU’s positions for COP26 including the Pre-COP must ensure that the EU and each of its Member States get behind a political outcome at COP26 that advances a fair approach to 1.5°C (Fair for 1.5°C). COP26 is an essential moment which must move us beyond a 1.5°C...

• Phasing out new fossil-fuel based boilers is vital to achieving the EU’s climate commitments

  LETTER To Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, There is increased attention to the role that buildings must play in the climate transition. The EU’s 2030 climate target plan requires the building sector to achieve 60% emission cuts between 2015 and 2030, through the application of the energy efficiency first principle, mass deployment of renewable heating and...

• CAN Europe response to public consultation on the revised Climate, Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (CEEAG)

  CAN Europe welcomes the initiative of bringing State aid guidelines for climate, energy and environmental protection (CEEAG) in line with the EU’s climate commitments. We strongly believe that a new state aid regime is required to boost the EU’s climate ambition and fulfil its commitment under the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to...

• Giant Damocles sword shows threat of energy charter treaty – as leaks reveal reform negotiations are failing

  Diplomatic cables reveal “no substantial progress” on reform of controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), and EU proposals rejected, as over 400 groups demand governments exit the treaty.   Brussels, 6 July 2021– As fresh negotiations get underway today (6-9 July) to reform the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), activists have hung a giant Damocles sword...

• Do not lock Maritsa TPPs with fossil gas!

  A group of Bulgarian environmental organizations sent end of June a joint letter to Bulgarian and EU policy makers to express their concerns about funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan to be invested in the gasification of a lignite power plant in Maritsa basin. Part of this fossil gas burned by the retrofitted...

• MEDIA BRIEFING: Economy Ministers’ Summit must ensure recovery is sustainable and transparent

  EU Ministers will meet on 18 June for the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN Council). They will exchange views on Member States’ Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRPs), and discuss the future of the European Fiscal Framework. Before the Recovery and Resilience Plans are approved in July, this meeting of Economy Ministers will be the...

• EU-US Summit: Ambitious restart of relations needs to be guided by Paris Agreement

  MEDIA ADVISORY What is happening? Following up to the upcoming G7 Summit in the UK, US President Biden will make a visit to Brussels, both for a NATO Summit as well as an EU-US Summit on 15 June 2021 (joint press release by the EEAS and the US department of state). A recent media report...

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