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 …
Obscure energy treaty could thwart EU green deal
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 …
System change or bust
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 …
EIB moves to stop funding most fossil fuel projects
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
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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Big oil spent over 250 million euros lobbying the EU
Civil society organisations demand fossil free politics The world’s five big oil and gas majors and their lobbyists have spent at least 251 million euros lobbying the EU since 2010, new research reveals – as almost 200 civil society organisations demand fossil free politics. Investigations show that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total – the …
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