Press Releases Archive - Page 28 of 143 - Friends of the Earth Europe

2050 climate target must be matched with faster fossil fuel phase-out

12/12/2019

European governments today adopted to a target of zero net carbon emissions by the year 2050. Responding to this new long-term goal approved by heads of state and government at a summit in Brussels, Susann Scherbarth, climate justice spokesperson for Friends of the Earth Europe said; “A target 30 years in the future in 2050 …

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EU Green Deal: fails to slam on the brakes

11/12/2019

In only her second week in office, new European Commission President von der Leyen has today set out a major environmental package to set the EU on a new environmental and climate path. With much fanfare, and a new level of joined-up thinking, the ‘European Green Deal’ marks a major change in tone, in response …

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Obscure energy treaty could thwart EU green deal

06/12/2019

An obscure investment treaty, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), could undermine the goals of Europe’s Green Deal, unless it is fundamentally revised in negotiations that trail its annual conference this week in Brussels, over 250 civil society organisations and trade unions warn. European Green Deal undermined Campaigners are demanding an end to protection of fossil …

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System change or bust

04/12/2019

System change: Europe’s environmental and climate warning signals are flashing red according to a comprehensive ‘State of the Environment’ survey published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Friends of the Earth Europe has responded with a call for EU President von der Leyen’s new European Commission to put environment, climate, and justice first in every …

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EIB moves to stop funding most fossil fuel projects

14/11/2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) tonight adopted its new energy lending policy, which would see it end funding to most new fossil fuel projects from the end of 2021 – in a big step forward in the campaign for a fossil-free Europe. Under the policy, from the end of 2021 the world’s biggest multilateral bank …

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EU Commission backs 55 controversial new fossil fuel projects

31/10/2019

In one of the last acts of President Juncker’s administration, the European Commission has today backed 55 new climate-damaging fossil fuel projects, as part of a list of priority energy projects – a move that flies in the face of the climate emergency say Friends of the Earth Europe and Food & Water Europe. This …

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