20/09/19
Climate strikes hit Europe
Today climate protests hit the streets of every European country, uniting millions of students, workers and adults – as part of the largest ever Globa …
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30/08/19
How the EIB can become Europe’s climate bank
by Colin Roche, fossil free campaigner – originally published in Foresight The new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised a G …
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29/08/19
Our house is on fire – let’s act
by Jagoda Muni?, director of Friends of the Earth Europe “I want you to act as if our house is on fire”, climate activist Greta Thunberg told politici …
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29/07/19
EIB proposes to ditch funding fossil fuels
The world’s biggest public bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB), has proposed to ditch funding fossil fuel projects. The EIB published on Friday 2 …
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23/07/19
Bosnians crowdfund country’s first community solar project
Solarna Pecka will be first citizen solar energy initiative in rural Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina is about to gain its first ever communi …
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21/06/19
Declaration – we all have a right to energy
At the Right to Energy Forum, over 100 activists, trade unionists, campaigners, and people from all over Europe came together in Brussels to debate, u …
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