Infographic: EU citizens pick up climate polluters’ bill
The infographic shows the huge discrepancy between what companies have to pay for their climate pollution and how much it costs citizens.
Work area: Climate action
Parliament’s industry committee closer to a compromise on the EU ETS reform
Lawmakers inch towards fixing the broken carbon market The bulk of the work left to the environment committee Members of the European Parliament’s industry committee (ITRE) today put forward compromise […]
CAN Europe Position on the Effort Sharing Regulation (2021-30)
In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and to align the EU’s targets with the Paris Agreement, ambition in the ESR sectors must be raised considerably. CAN Europe […]
Open letter to the ITRE Committee on coal subsidies through EU ETS
3 networks and 21 organizations representing almost 50 million citizens across Europe, called on Members of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the European Parliament to vote for an ambitious […]
Cross-party consensus on the need to boost the EU Emissions Trading System
Members of the European Parliament from all major political parties tabled amendments for strengthening the ambition of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme post-2020. Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe welcomed this […]
Briefing: A fresh start for the ETS
This paper looks at the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) starting point in 2021 and how it affects the ETS phase 4 emissions budget.
European Parliament’s Environment Committee urges the EU to ratify Paris Agreement and raise its climate ambition
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has today voted on a resolution on the upcoming COP22, urging the EU to ratify the Paris Agreement before the end of this year and […]
CAN Europe evaluation of the Commission’s proposal on non-ETS emissions for 2021-2030
CAN Europe has done a first analyisis of the Commission’s proposal on non-ETS emissions for 2021-2030.
EU countries’ emission targets fall short of Paris Agreement goals
European Commission misses opportunity to put in place a ratchet-up mechanism and to set an ambitious starting point for reductions. EU countries’ climate targets, included in the proposal for the […]
Letter to Juncker on non-ETS sectors and LULUCF
CAn Europe co-signed the following letter to President Junker on LULUCF and the starting Point in the non-ETS sectors.