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New EU mechanism to help workers and regions make fossil free shift is not enough

14/01/2020

The European Commission has launched proposals for a package to help workers and communities make the shift to fossil free societies – a policy Friends of the Earth Europe and unions have for years demanded. The proposal is part of the EU Green Deal, unveiled in December 2019. However, €7.5 billion public funding for the …

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Climate talks ‘out of touch with reality’

13/12/2019

Prospects for vulnerable communities in the global South look dire, as wealthy countries refuse to pay up for the climate damage they have caused and Northern governments and corporations push forward carbon trading, says Friends of the Earth International as another round of deeply disappointing world climate talks draw to a close. The environmental justice …

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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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