My Climate Ask – Action at the EU Citizens Summit
European Citizens summit attendees call upon leaders to increase climate action at New York Climate Summit. On the morning of the UN Climate Summit in New York, hundreds of people […]
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Carbon border mechanism: Parliament fails to prevent double protection of EU industry
Yesterday EPP MEPs chose to support industry greenhouse gas emissions, in stark contradiction with the EU’s Green Deal and climate ambition. In its plenary vote, the Parliament failed to support […]
Energy Charter Treaty: Entering yet another round of dead-end reform negotiations while 800,000 people demand the EU to withdraw
The fourth round of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) modernisation process kicks off today, March 2. But the ECT cannot be reformed. First of all, changes have to be made […]
United Nations report calls for unprecedented, urgent global action against climate change
The United Nations have launched a Synthesis Report analysing the impact of the level of ambition from all climate plans submitted by December 2020. This is yet another stark warning […]
European Commission ups its game on adaptation, but the strategy lacks teeth to protect societies against worsening climate change
The European Commission presented its updated climate change adaptation strategy today. Besides much-needed mitigation efforts, the EU must step up its game on adaptation, as impacts of climate change are […]
NGOs stand in support of the Portuguese youth in their landmark case against 33 European countries
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Germanwatch, Notre Affaire à Tous and 2Celsius applied to the European Court of Human Rights to intervene in the Portuguese youth’s climate case to support […]
Trade policy review fails to propose the reforms needed to align EU trade and climate policies
The European Commission has put forward its new trade policy for the years to come. It states that EU trade policy “should unequivocally support the Green Deal in all its […]
Energy Charter Treaty reform might expand, rather than reduce the risk of investor-state arbitration claims
The European Union is supposed to put forward this Monday 15 February its position for the definition of the “economic activity in the energy sector”, one of the most important […]
Secrecy surrounding €672 billion in EU recovery funding jeopardises building back better, say campaigners
Little is known about how Member States intend to use funds from the EU’s EUR 672 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility, raising concerns about the bloc’s ability to rebound from […]
Carbon border tax: EU industry cannot have its cake and eat it
The Environment Committee of the European Parliament took its position on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a financial instrument meant to put a price on carbon-intensive imports from outside […]