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Austria faces EU complaint for inadequate building renovation plan

Friends of the Earth Austria/GLOBAL 2000 have filed an EU complaint against their government today for an inadequate and illegal plan on building renovations and energy efficiency. Austria’s long-term renovation strategy is inadequate, harms energy poverty and carbon reduction efforts, says the group. EU minimum standards for buildings must also apply in Austria so that …

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EU member states endorse new plan to address biodiversity crisis

Today the environment ministers of EU governments have backed the Biodiversity Strategy 2030, which lays out the EU’s new 10-year-plan to tackle nature loss. The meeting comes days after a report on the State of Nature in the EU revealed that, despite the EU’s Nature directives, 81% of habitats and 63% of the species that the directives were …

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Revealed: How the fossil fuel industry used Covid-19 to derail the EU green deal

Under the guise of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen fossil fuel interests capture tens of billions of public recovery money, new research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a massive lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry to win concessions for climate-damaging energy schemes across Europe, and weaken environmental standards and the European …

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Commission plan fails to bring Energy Charter Treaty in line with climate goals

A leaked European Commission proposal reveals that the EU is not serious about ending the protection of fossil fuels under the controversial Energy Charter Treaty. European Commissioners are expected today to sign off proposals to reform the investment agreement, which is currently being renegotiated to ‘modernise’ it, due to climate concerns. Controversial treaty The European …

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Bad week for future of farming

The European Parliament has today voted on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in what Friends of the Earth Europe called a ‘historically bad week for the future of farming’. A majority of MEPs voted against substantial improvements to the current harmful system, burying any hope of real reform of the 400 billion Euro funds …

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