Brussels, 24 April – Today the European Parliament rubber-stamped a new harmonising law on human rights and environmental due diligence for corporate giants, listening to the clarion call from hundreds
New in-depth data research from five leading climate and environment organisations reveals that only a minority of MEPs during the 2019 – 2024 mandate acted to protect Europe’s climate, nature and air quality. The majority of MEPs acted instead as either procrastinators or prehistoric thinkers, delaying real action with patchy and inconsistent voting records, or worse, completely failing to rise to the challenge of the crises Europe is facing.
New in-depth data research from five leading climate and environment organisations reveals that only a minority of MEPs during the 2019 – 2024 mandate acted to protect Europe’s climate, nature and air quality. The majority of MEPs acted instead as either procrastinators or prehistoric thinkers, delaying real action with patchy and inconsistent voting records, or worse, completely failing to rise to the challenge of the crises Europe is facing.
The European Climate Energy Union and its Climate Action are struggling to reach its Paris Agreement targets and public demands. Its governance mechanism is in non-compliance with international law and
National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) can be a powerful tool to put European countries on track to stay within the critical 1.5°C global warming threshold to avoid the worst
Ahead of the Bonn Climate Conference (3-13 June), the EU Environment Council (17 June) and the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) submission deadline (30 June), CAN Europe has written
Ahead of the Environment Council and the Climate High Level event on the 25th and 26th of March, CAN Europe has written to Europe’s environment ministers in relation to national
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe releases a myth buster to counter the recent hype around nuclear energy. It details why nuclear energy is a dangerous distraction from the transition to a fully renewables-based energy system and threatens to delay the urgently needed phase out of fossil fuels.
In this briefing, we address some of the main myths around the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and lay out the importance of this law in finally holding European corporations accountable.
Access to and the quality of energy and climate information across Europe is extremely poor, a new report “Transparency and Access to Data on Climate Action” by a group of
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