In the Climate Law trilogues, EU lawmakers rushed an agreement on the Law and failed to deliver on what could have been an ambitious climate governance framework, including a strong […]
The EU is in breach of the international Aarhus Convention, that grants the public rights regarding access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters. To stop […]
MEDIA ADVISORY What is happening? US President, Joe Biden, invited 40 World Leaders to the Leaders Summit on Climate on 22-23 April 2021. This is a critically important initiative as […]
Photos of the NGO action in front of the Court can be found here. Recording of the press conference can be found here. The European Court of Justice announced its […]
This letter was sent to President of the European Commission von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Sinkevičus , Minister Matos Fernandes, MEP Guteland and other Members of […]
CAN Europe, in its latest working document “Towards a functioning low-carbon investment framework in Europe: the need to modernise increasingly prevalent traditional capacity remuneration mechanisms”, has analysed existing and potential […]
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 […]
CAN Europe made a submission on the European Commission’s Consultation on reassessing carbon leakage rules under the EU-ETS. Loss of competitiveness and so called “carbon leakage” have often been used […]
Some market fundamentalists make that a simple price on carbon (i.e. an ETS) can fix everything. This is simply wrong, has been proven wrong by many studies and it will […]
The success of the ETS revision hinges on its ability to make the polluter pay, rather than paying the polluter. Handing out free pollution permits contradicts the EU Treaty principle […]