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EFTA court hears landmark Norwegian climate lawsuit on the legality of three oil & gas fields in the North Sea
The key issue is whether impact assessments under EU law should also include emissions caused by burning the extracted oil & gas
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🌿 MEPs have voted to delay the #DeforestationLaw #EUDR by one year, seeing off a right-wing attempt to gut it
🚨 One year of delay is bad enough, but the #EUMercosur deal agreed last week could deal the EUDR a fatal blow
Our analysis:
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"DG Trade should call itself ‘DG B-Trade’ - because they’ve betrayed Europe’s citizens and the Amazon rainforest" - @lisparisicunha
@Trade_EU @WeyandSabine @olofgill
#EUMercosur #stopeumercosur #EUDR #DeforestationLaw
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Four oil and gas corporations have recently tried to use lawsuits to silence Greenpeace and to intimidate the climate movement…
@Shell has backed down this week. @totalenergies lost.
Two down. Two to go.
#imwithgreenpeace #stopdrillingstartpaying #wewillnotbesilenced
ALT Meme illustrating the progress Greenpeace has made in the legal cases against big oil companies
"25 years of secret talks, sidelining public concerns, have resulted in a deal that will increase trade in beef, pesticides and plastics, with disastrous impacts on the Amazon, the climate and human rights" –
@lisparisicunha
#EUMercosur #stopeumercosur
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#DeforestationLaw
💚 Excellent news: the law survives untouched!
😡 Bad news: the law is delayed by one year
#EUDR will apply as intended, without the loopholes @EPPGroup shamelessly tried to create
⏰ The clock is now ticking to be ready for 30 December 2025
Greenpeace Spain has placed items in the National Archaeological Museum and two other museums, as a warning of the decline of traditional family farming in the face of government inaction
Industrial agriculture destroys nature and small family farms in Spain and around the world
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Tonight, decision-makers in Brussels meet to decide the fate of the EU #DeforestationLaw
A one-year delay is bad enough: the loopholes the EPP wants to create would be a disaster.
It's crucial that governments don’t back down.
No changes to the Deforestation Law!
#EUDR
ALT An activist holds a banner reading "Forest protection now!" in German. In the background, the words "Act now" are written in sawdust in huge letters on the ground, in a recently clear-cut section of forest in Montabaur, Germany, 2021.
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🚨 HUGE WIN - Norway agreed to stop deep sea mining in the Arctic
This is a win for global mobilization and a huge step forward to protect the Arctic
This fragile ecosystem is safe from deep sea mining at least until the end of 2025 - and we won’t stop there
#StopDeepSeaMining
ALT Image anouncing a hoistoric victory
Over the weekend, activists in Germany protested against the first US fossil gas shipment to the EU since the US election
Commission president von der Leyen wants to buy more US fracked gas to appease Trump
But gas won't deliver security or a liveable future
ALT An activist on a floating protest camp holds up a banner reading: "stop fossi gas!" beside a large gas tanker.
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😱 #EUMercosur negotiators have reached a deal, according to @faznet
"This is a tragic day for nature and climate, with geopolitical interests and corporate profits winning out over the wellbeing of this planet." - trade campaigner @lisparisicunha
👇
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New EU Commission: promises to deliver clean mobility, better homes, sustainable farming, & resilient circular economy are already colliding with pledges to slash env+social standards, lock in unlimited growth for polluters, & pursue free trade at all cost
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The Global North’s fashion addiction is fueling an environmental disaster.
@greenpeace_esp tagged 23 "recycled" garments and tracked them to 11 countries. Many end up in landfill.
On #BlackFriday, remember: if you don't need it, don't buy it!
#FastFashion #StopWasteColonialism
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It's hard to see what the new EU Commission stands for, other than von der Leyen’s place at the helm
She will oversee a motley crew of commissioners rowing in different directions in a sea of unprecedented perils and uncertainty
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#DeforestationLaw: "Conservative and far-right MEPs tried to carve out loopholes bigger than the Amazon rainforest at this late, late stage, and it cannot be tolerated."
We're urging EU governments: take a stand and save the #EUDR
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Greenpeace representatives brought climate-impacted objects from around the world to #COP29 in Baku, sharing powerful stories of communities devastated by extreme weather events with world leaders.
We need #ClimateJustice now and we must #MakePollutersPay now!
EU Parliament calls for more sanctions on the Russian 'shadow fleet' circumventing oil sanctions to fund the war, and for sanctions on Russian nuclear products
This is urgent! The European Commission and EU governments must act in the next sanctions package
Parliament calls for an EU crackdown on Russia’s ’shadow fleet’
MEPs demand more targeted EU sanctions against Russia’s so-called ‘shadow fleet’, which provides a key financial lifeline for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Details ⤵️europarl.europa.eu/news/en/p…
The @EPPGroup has teamed up with the populist and extreme right in an attack on the EU #DeforestationLaw
📢 @EU_Commission must now withdraw its proposal to stop the EPP's amendments from creating chaos, confusion and destroying forests
#EUDR
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