Community energy has become a recognized force pushing forward the whole community energy transition. Yet, despite gaining support in EU law, community energy often faces a plethora of barriers that slow down or block projects from succeeding. From grid access, to access to financial capital, to burdensome bureaucracy – too often the potential of community …
Financing Community Energy
EU Community Power Coalition position paper on putting local energy transition and community resilience at the heart of the green recovery As policy-makers all over Europe work to revive our economies ravaged by the pandemic, the EU Community Power Coalition calls for an economic recovery that ensures society and local communities are greener and fairer …
Annual Review 2020
Read the Annual Review 2020 online 2020 was a year like no other, but the struggle for environmental and social justice continued. Introducing the Friends of the Earth Europe 2020 Annual Review. 2020 saw significant successes despite the circumstances, and even major victories. Friends of the Earth Netherlands’ achieved a historic win in court against …
Europe We Want – Statement on the Future of Europe
Europe is facing unprecedented global and local challenges. We need urgent action to achieve a pandemic recovery that will reshape society, as well as tackle climate change, inequalities, and the design and control of new technologies. This must be a watershed moment to set Europe on a transformation towards a just, sustainable, democratic, and inclusive society. …
Joint letter: Concerns over EU-Mercosur trade deal
Today, trade ministers meet in Brussels to discuss, amongst other issues ,the state of play on the EU-Mercosur Agreement. They will discuss how additional protocols and annexes could save the deal.With this letter to heads of states and ministers, a broad coalition of civil society groups both from South America and Europe reiterates its calls …
Towards a healthy renovated Europe
Renovating Europe’s decrepit buildings is an opportunity that can’t be missed to tackle climate change, end energy poverty, and create green jobs.
