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• Civil Society 10-point plan for a fossil gas phase out by 2035

  2024 was the planet’s warmest year on record and the first calendar year where the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above its pre-industrial level during 12 months in a row. While the climate emergency is intensifying and accelerating,   the urgency to tackle greenhouse gas emissions is more imperative than ever. On top of this...

• Fossil fuel subsidies set to derail EU’s 2030 climate plans, new study finds

  Five EU countries are looking to introduce new fossil fuel subsidies by 2030, analysis of the 28 Member States’ draft energy and climate plans has revealed.

• Winners revealed at the Fossil Fuel Subsidies Awards 2018

  Portugal wins gold in the 2018 European Fossil Fuel Subsidies Awards, the second edition of a unique contest organised by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe. The winners are governments who waste taxpayers’ money on supporting dirty energy. Poland comes second and Spain third.

• Poland wins Fossil of the Day Award at the Bonn climate summit

  On the second day of this year’s UN climate summit in Bonn, Poland won the second place of the shameful Fossil of the Day Award. The dubious award was handed down to Poland, the host of the next UN climate summit in 2018, for working day and night to turn the EU’s carbon market into...

• Europe providing more than €112 billion a year in fossil fuel subsidies, with almost half benefitting the transport sector – new report

  European governments and the EU are handing out more than €112 billion each year to prop up the production and consumption of fossil fuels, despite a pledge to phase out harmful subsidies by 2020.

• Fossil Fuel Subsidies Award Winners Revealed

  Nine European countries have been named and shamed today in a public fossil fuel subsidies awards ceremony in Brussels. From 10 April until 8 May, the public voted on the deadliest, dirtiest and sneakiest subsidies to fossil fuels in Europe.

• EU climate ambition: new analysis of National Energy and Climate Plans reveals major concerns

  A new CAN Europe report looked into 12 National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) and reveals that most of them urgently need to align targets and benchmarks with coherent policies to at least reach the EU’s climate and energy goals. As of March 2025, five Member States—Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Poland, and Slovakia—have yet to submit...

• Coal Subsidies: Holding Energy Market Reform Hostage

  The electricity market design reform, launched this year by the European Commission as a response to the volatility of energy prices during the fossil fuel price crisis, caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is at risk. A last minute push to open the door for coal subsidies is diverting attention from crucial elements of this...

• Reformed carbon market must no longer fund coal

  As the Emissions Trading System (ETS) reform enters its crucial trialogue phase, it is up to the European Parliament to fight its corner and ensure that future funding only goes towards projects that contribute to the clean energy transition, writes Joanna Flisowska.

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