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ECB’s purchasing policies skewed towards carbon-intensive industries – report
Brussels/Frankfurt - A new report reveals how the ECB’s proclaimed "market neutrality" policy actually skews the bank’s corporate bond purchases in favor of carbon intensive industries. Decarbonising Is Easy: Beyond Market Neutrality in the ECB’s Corporate QE was published by the New Economics Foundation, SOAS University of London, the University of the West of England,…
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Majority of European crops feeding animals and cars, not people
Brussels, 16 October 2020 – The vast majority of European crop production is used to feed animals and create biofuels, rather than feeding people, new analysis has found. At the…
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False sense of security
The global Covid-19 crisis has given us the opportunity to rethink how and where we produce what we consume.
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EU summit: Covid response shows climate action is possible
Brussels – The unprecedented response to the coronavirus pandemic is proof that governments can take radical climate action, said Greenpeace as European government leaders met at a summit in Brussels to discuss a higher EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2030.
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MEPs vote to exclude fossil fuels from coronavirus recovery fund
Brussels - MEPs in the European Parliament’s environment committee have voted to exclude fossil fuel investments from the €672.5 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the largest fund under the EU’s coronavirus recovery plan.
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EU Parliament holds key to Europe’s green recovery
As Europe continues to be a global hotspot for the coronavirus pandemic and its economic and social impact, the EU is moving ahead to agree an unprecedented recovery fund of €750 billion, in addition to the EU’s seven-year budget, worth around €1.1 trillion.
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EU-Mercosur: leaked treaty has no climate protection, undermines democracy
Brussels, 9 October 2020 – There are no sanctionable clauses requiring the EU and Mercosur countries to respect climate or environmental protection in the treaty under negotiation between the two…
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EU Parliament edges climate action forward
Brussels – In a vote on a new EU climate law on Tuesday, the European Parliament has backed an increase in the EU’s 2030 climate target to a 60% cut in emissions.
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EU-Mercosur mythbuster
The EU must make progress on several fronts to play its part in tackling the climate emergency, avoiding ecological collapse and preventing future health crises.
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Polluters profiting from pandemic bailouts
How the fossil fuel industry is using the COVID-19 crisis to capture public funds and lock in dirty energy