Hungary and Czechia urgently need to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. To prevent the worst effects of climate change, this transition needs to be very fast. However, lack of public support is currently slowing down the energy transition. Community energy is the answer. This briefing provides a snapshot of the reality of community …
Do No Harm: The Case for an EU Law to Hold Business Accountable
This report tells five stories of how companies based in the EU are implicated in human rights violations and environmental destruction across the world, from South America to sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia. The cases in this report underline why the EU should urgently bring in mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (mHREDD), and that …
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The urgent case to stop factory farms
This report shows the damage that the rise in factory farming in Europe is doing to the climate and human health, and advocates for a full phase out of factory farming in the EU by 2040.
Polluters profiting from pandemic bailouts
New research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a concerted lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry during Covid-19 to win concessions for climate-damaging energy schemes, gain access to bailout funds, and weaken environmental standards. This is undermining climate action, the EU Green Deal and green recovery. Bailing out fossil fuels is giving a …
Civil society concerns on EU critical raw materials plan
234 civil society organisations and academics from across Europe and the world are expressing deep concerns with the direction being taken by the European Commission in its new communications on Critical Raw Materials, in this open letter. Reacting to the Commission’s plans published on Friday 4th September, the signatories urge the Commission to realign strategies …
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Commission turning a blind eye to new GMOs
88 civil society and farmers organisations from across Europe are today warning the EU Commission is turning a blind eye to new GMOs and demanding EU health and food safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides keeps new GMOs regulated, in an open letter. The controversial new generation of food genetic engineering techniques should be subject to EU …
