Devil in the climate details as Slovakia finalises plan for EU recovery fund
March 30, 2021
Thanks to a strong push from the European Commission, Slovakia’s national recovery and resilience plan allocates nearly three billion euros for green, climate-friendly investments. The plan includes commendable aims to renovate buildings, pursue renewable energy sources, clean up dirty industries and develop more sustainable transport infrastructure.
Latest unambitious domino falls as Poland publishes plan for EU recovery fund
March 25, 2021
A lack of ambition, vision and delivery sums up the Polish national recovery and resilience plan that was released on 26 February. The fundamental flaw is that the plan provides no path for the country to reach neither the EU’s climate neutrality target by 2050 nor the much less ambitious targets outlined in the recent Poland’s Energy Policy 2040 (PEP2040), like reducing the share of coal in the electricity mix to 56 per cent.
EU-Umweltminister*innen: viel Austausch, aber keine Entscheidungen
March 19, 2021
c. PixabaynDie EU-Umweltminister*innen berieten über die EU-Klimaanpassungsstrategie, tauschten sich über das „Greening“ des Europäischen …
Nature ignored in European recovery funding, say campaign groups
March 18, 2021
Member States plan pitiful amounts of spending from the €672 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to protect and preserve nature, in spite of EU requirements and the generally poor state of biodiversity across the continent, say civil society groups ahead of Thursday’s meeting of European environmental ministers.
The EU Recovery Funds: time to start properly investing in biodiversity and nature conservation
March 18, 2021
The state of nature is in crisis. A recent European Environmental Agency (EEA) report reveals that 81 per cent of habitats in Europe are in ‘poor condition’, and without swift action this dire situation will only become worse. We need systemic and wide
Verbände fordern die EU-Umweltminister auf den ökologischen Übergang mit Investitionen zu beschleunigen
March 17, 2021
NGOs call on the EU Environment Ministers to improve Recovery and Resilience Plans to accelerate ecological transitionn(WK-intern) – Ahead …
EU bank failing on transparency and openness, warns civil society
March 11, 2021
Brussels – The European Investment Bank (EIB) is a laggard among its lending peers in terms of the amount of information it provides about its activities, finds a new analysis.The 53 civil society groups behind this analysis — including CEE Bankwatch Network, Counter Balance, Client Earth and many more — are urging the Bank to be more open about the impacts of its financing.
Joint CSO Submission on the Draft Revised Version of the EIB Transparency Policy
March 11, 2021
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is currently revising its transparency standards. Its proposal for a revised Transparency Policy (draft TP) is under public consultation until 12 March 2021. While we appreciate the EIB’s initiative to review its Tran
More of the same secrecy in Latvia and Romania as EU recovery funds planning gets underway
March 10, 2021
National Recovery and Resilience Plans have to be submitted to the European Commission by 30 April, 2021. Yet less than two months before the deadline, the latest updates from the Romanian and Latvian recovery plans raise alarm on public participation and on unambitious climate and energy targets.
Climate campaigners grapple with constraints of corona-era activism
March 9, 2021
Press play to listen to this articlenWhen Milan first went into lockdown one year ago, fear and anxiety swept over the city as coronavirus …
