31/10/19
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, …
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30/10/19
Campaign to save Czech forests reaches parliament
*UPDATE* On 31 October 2019, Hnuti Duha / Friends of the Earth Czechia celebrated after the Czech Parliament signed off on a few important legal refor …
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23/10/19
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 eu …
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18/10/19
Commission support for 55 new gas projects condemned
Drafts indicate the European Commission will give its support to at least 55 new climate-incompatible fossil gas infrastructure projects across Europe …
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15/10/19
EIB fails to decide on policy to end fossil fuels
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has today failed to agree a new energy lending policy that proposed to end its financing of fossil fuel projects fr …
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04/10/19
Will incoming EU energy chief pour gas on the fire?
Kadri Simson alarmingly weak on climate crisis Just days after the biggest climate protests the world has ever seen, members of the European Parliamen …
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