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Home > Archives for environmental safeguards

environmental safeguards

Paved with good intentions: text of EU emergency regulation on renewables permitting agreed

November 25, 2022

In their poorly thought-out regulation on renewables permitting, the Commission and Council are abusing EU emergency powers to trash key environmental safeguards and unleash legal chaos.


Renewables to needlessly endanger EU protected natural areas: Reaction to today’s European Parliament committee vote on the Renewable Energy Directive

November 14, 2022

The European Parliament ITRE committee, responsible for energy issues, today approved the Commission’s proposal for a revised Renewable Energy Directive, undermining existing environmental legislation to allow damaging projects in the EU’s protected natural areas. 


‘Destructive, undemocratic and possibly illegal’ – green groups slate leaked EU renewables emergency measures

November 8, 2022

EU plans for an emergency regulation to accelerate renewable energy deployment are highly destructive for biodiversity, undemocratic and possibly illegal, CEE Bankwatch Network and EuroNatur warned today, after a leaked text of the proposal was published by Context Energie. 


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