Climate Crisis
EEB: EU wastes more food than it imports, says new report
European Commission faces pressure to set legally binding targets to tackle food waste scandal. Read Here
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EEB: CAP national strategic plans will not deliver on EU Green Deal
Both nature and food security under threat as Member States cave in to misguided farm lobby agenda Read Here Photo: Raúl Hernández González licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
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EEB: General Block Exemption Regulation must align with EU climate neutrality and zero pollution goals, urges the EEB
Regulation allowing governments to provide state aid without notification to the European Commission must be improved to meet European Green Deal objectives Read here
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EEB: Delay in proposed microplastics restriction leading to irreversible pollution
One additional year without a restriction on microplastics could see levels of pollution equivalent to 1.6 billion plastic bottles released into the environment. Read here
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EEB: EU Waste Shipment Regulation falls short of fixing Europe’s waste export crisis
NGOs demand a stronger ban on waste exports, a better alignment with waste treatment hierarchy and fairer shipments for reuse Read here epSos .de Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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EEB: Wasteful destruction of unsold goods must be banned, NGOs urge the EU
Belgian, French and German initiatives to end product destruction must be upscaled at the single-market level Read here
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EEB: Green mining’ is a myth: EU must slash resource consumption by two-thirds
New analysis suggests the EU must ditch plans under its European Green Deal to increase mining and set hard limits to the natural resources it extracts in order to prevent human and ecological disaster. Read […]
Climate Crisis
EEB – Four years of unnecessary pollution: EU governments fail to curb emissions from most toxic plants
Most lignite plants in the EU have waited until the very last minute to implement pollution-control technologies that were available and economically viable already 4 years ago, leaving a massive bill on people’s health and […]
Climate Crisis
EEB: One in, one out ‘biggest threat’ to European Green Deal
Environmental groups have slammed Ursula von der Leyen’s proposed “One in, one out” approach to new EU legislation describing it as the “biggest threat to EU climate and environmental action”. Read here