🚨NEW REPORT: 🚨

How do we crack the decarbonisation of heat challenge?

➡️Clean heat standards are an important part of the answer.

It is a novel mechanism similar to zero emission vehicle standards and renewable portfolio standards but for heat. 🧵

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🚦NEW: we assessed 🇪🇺 Member States' National Energy & Climate Plans #NECP for community & renewable energy objectives☀️

Who's a front runner? Who needs to catch up? Who’s lagging behind? Find out in the #CommunityPower coalition's traffic light analysis👉communitypowercoalition.eu/news-events/

🌿From the climate crisis to global conflicts, our overproduction makes it all worse.

It's clear: the EU needs legislation to stop its unsustainable practices.

Here’s our science-based proposal for a healthier future for our planet and next generations👇caneurope.org/open-letter-su…

⌛Now is the time for EU legislation on #Sustainable #Resource Management!

📢Together with +100 organisations we call for a rapid, well-prepared shift towards a fair, autonomous, resilient EU economy within planetary boundaries.

👉acrplus.org/en/online-reso…

#wcef2024

The EU’s resource consumption is like your nephew Timmy saying he’s reducing sugar but then gulping down half of the 🎂

100+ civil society org’s demand urgent action to manage resources sustainably 👇

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#WCEF2024 #CircularEconomy #Sufficiency #GRO24

🌐 The EU's unfair resource consumption overshoots planetary limits, fueling 🔥climate chaos, 🦋 biodiversity loss, ⚖️ social injustice & inequalities.

A proper law on sustainable resource management will make the planet healthier for all! 👇
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#wcef2024

🌍⏪ 5years ago, we had hope for EU climate action - and that hope still burns bright.
But we must keep up the pressure - on the streets, on the line with politicians and in the election booths.
Julie Zalcman & others on countering the 'green backlash': euronews.com/green/2024/04/…

Who are 🛡️Protectors, 🐌Procrastinators and 🦖Prehistoric Thinkers at European Parliament?

Our new in-depth EP Scoreboard reveals that only a minority of 2019-2024 MEPs acted as Protectors of the Green Deal.

Check out our new interactive tool👇 #votefutureEU
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👩‍🌾🎙️Clear message from European Coordination Via Campesina & IFOAM Organics Europe: Farmers want fair prices and more public support towards #agroecology , not a step back on environmental rules.

The #CAP should champion that. But (yet again), the EU Commission's proposal undermines these crucial goals.

The EU is the largest importer of clothing globally and the implications are dire.

Our new report reveals how cotton clothes sold by H&M & Zara are linked to #deforestation & #HumanRightsViolations in the 🇧🇷 Cerrado.

Two EU flagship projects could help🧵

📢Exciting news!

🍏We just released 8 Info Comics that raise awareness on the huge influence the EU has on our food and farming.

🇪🇺 The EU matters. Vote for the Future in the June Elections!

Download here: gfgf.eu/eu-elections/

#VoteFutureEU

1/4 This week MEP @AnaMirandaPaz publicly denounced Renew Europe EPP for 'abandoning the negotiations' on a resolution to hold the fossil fuel lobby accountable for the cost of living crisis.

The resolution proposed restrictions on oil & gas lobbyists, like we have for tobacco

🎉Slovenia's first example of a cooperative developed self-consumption 🌞project has been nominated for the SozialMarie Social Innovation Prize.

We're also running for the Audience Award - you can help us win by voting here: sozialmarie.org/en/projects/93… 📷

Good news ! MEPs of the Committee INTA Committee Press ITRE Committee Press voted for the🇪🇺to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty.

This climate-killer deal protecting fossil fuels investors is a major obstacle to energy transition #StopECT friendsoftheearth.eu/energy-charter…

Open letter to the European Commission: No more conflict of interest ✉

Together with Transparency International EU and other civil society groups we’re calling upon the Commission to rescind the appointment of MEP Markus Pieper as the EU SME Envoy immediately!

#piepergate