Plastic is one of the fastest-growing pollutants in the world, and citizens are calling for solutions. The EU has taken important steps to restrict single-use plastics, but this is just a start. We call on the EU to step-up its actions and show global leadership to tackle plastic pollution at source.
Civil society organisations demand ‘fossil free politics’
A civil society statement, supported by nearly 200 organisations worldwide declaring: “We are facing a climate emergency, created by the fossil fuel industry. We demand fossil free politics.” Similar to existing restrictions on tobacco industry lobbyists, we need a firewall that protects our democratic institutions and our decision-making from fossil fuel industry interference: no more …
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Big oil and gas buying influence in Brussels
With money and meetings, subsidies and sponsorships, the oil and gas lobby is fuelling the climate disaster. Since 2010, just five oil and gas corporations and their fossil fuel lobby groups have spent at least a quarter of a billion euros buying influence at the heart of European decision-making. This briefing exposes not just the …
Letter to MEPs by the “Good Food Good Farming” coalition
The Good Food Good Farming coalition – comprised of farmers, bee-keepers, cooks, civil society organisations, activists, consumers, young and old from urban and rural areas across Europe ? is calling on MEPs to urgently improve agricultural policies. In the face of climate and ecological breakdown and a massive loss of small farming communities across Europe, …
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Reusable solutions: how governments can help stop single-use plastic pollution
Reusable alternatives to wasteful single-use plastics are on the rise across Europe, and national governments have the tools at their disposal to boost them and slash plastic pollution. This report shows how a mixture of public and private initiatives are slashing the consumption of single-use plastic packaging and products across Europe, including deposit-return schemes, and …
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Opening statement 5th round of UN Binding Treaty negotiations
Over 50 NGOs are demanding constructive engagement from the EU and Member States on the content of the Revised Draft of the UN Binding Treaty.
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