This document aims to provide details in support of CAN Europe’s and its members’ individual organisation responses to the European Commission’s public consultation. The public consultation on the CBAM takes […]
The forthcoming update of the EU Industrial Strategy provides a welcome opportunity to re-frame and prioritise actions from the 2020 strategy. With Member States drafting national recovery and resilience plans, […]
If countries want to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, temperature increase must be limited to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels: a central objective of the Paris Agreement, adopted […]
Amidst the public health turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Governments’ prime attention is directed towards finding ways to limit the number of fatalities and prevent a collapse of public […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the historic climate case, l’Affaire du Siècle, launched by French NGOs in 2018, the Paris Administrative Court has found that the French State is not taking sufficient climate action […]