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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 …
Revealed: How the fossil fuel industry used Covid-19 to derail the EU green dealRead more
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 …
Commission plan fails to bring Energy Charter Treaty in line with climate goalsRead more
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 …
Responding to the conclusions of today’s meeting of Europe’s Agriculture Ministers, Stanka Becheva, food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, commented: “Europe needs a strategy to urgently combat the ecological, climate and farming crises – that is not what Ministers have served up today. They have backed away from the already moderate …
EU agriculture chiefs back away from Green Deal goalsRead more
‘Flagship’ EU plans to kickstart large-scale building renovations and energy poverty action, unveiled today by the European Commission, are a step in the right direction, says Friends of the Earth Europe. The ‘Renovation Wave’ strategy had been much anticipated by social and environmental groups – offering a potential ‘win-win-win’ opportunity to tackle climate change, poverty …
EU Renovation Wave: right direction, wrong speed for emissions and energy povertyRead more
World leaders will meet in New York today to stress the importance of the biodiversity crisis and call for an ambitious global plan to save nature. EU Commission President von der Leyen will join heads of state in addressing the plenary, with the EU having signaled its support for, “[stepping] up global ambition for biodiversity”. …
