09.05.2008

Climate change25.04.2008

Filicopsida or Fern fronds - Copyright: texasmary

Climate change and biodiversity

Public hearing by the Greens/EFA to take place the 14 May in the European Parliament

Ahead of the 9th meeting (COP9) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn, Germany, (19 to 30 May), the Greens/EFA will organise a high-level hearing on "climate change and biodiversity". Experts of the UN, NGOs or the European Commission will debate on how to tackle the loss of biodiversity in the context of global warming.

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Nuclear not a solution25.04.2008

Chernobyl Day

The ghosts of Soviet Nuclear - Stop Mochovce 3+4!

At the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster on 26 April 2008, the Greens take part in the international day of action against nuclear energy. The project to complete reactor 3 and 4 in Mochovce, Slovakia is one of our key concern.

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Press releases22.04.2008

Food prices and agrofuels

Greens call for moratorium on agrofuels

Green MEPs called on the European Commission to scrap its 10% target for agrofuels and to establish a moratorium to allow clarification of their use.

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Climate change21.04.2008

Home with solar panels on the roof - Copyright: Roberta Casaliggi

Climate protection: act locally!

German Greens launch "climate action days"

Each day municipalities make decisions which will protect, or not, our climate. Switch to green power, investments in eco-buildings or insulation of older buildings, development of local soft mobility schemes: local actors can make key contributions in tackling climate change!

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Press releasesBrussels 17.04.2008

Food price increases

Green MEPs call for obligatory food security assessment of EU policies

Green MEPs called on the European Commission to waive the 10% target for agro-fuels and to put forward a proposal for an obligatory food security impact assessment within the framework of the Common Agricultural, Energy and Trade Policy.

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Soft mobility16.04.2008

Venice train station - Copyright: Luke Daniek

EU transport policies

Laying tracks from east to west in the EU

Four years after EU enlargement and almost 20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, rail connections to eastern Europe are still in a bad state. Today it takes 60 hours to travel by train from Berlin to Tallinn while in 1935 it only took 27 hours!

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Renewable energy14.04.2008

Agrofuel target

Scientific body of European Environment Agency asks to suspend 10% agrofuels target

The EEA scientific committee made public an opinion on the environmental impact of agrofuel use in Europe. It recommends a new, comprehensive study on the subject and a suspension of the 10% taget of agrofuels in transport by 2020.

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Climate change10.04.2008

Pile of coal - Copyright: Marek Pawluczuk

Carbon emissions

Global CO2 emissions continue to rise

A latest study by the US "Earth Policy Institute" shows that worldwide CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are accelerating rapidly. Emissions grew 3.1% a year between 2000 and 2006, more than twice the rate of growth during the 1990s!

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Climate change07.04.2008

Climate Package

European Parliament's committees start discussions on the files of the Commission's "Climate Package"

Today and tomorrow the committees for Environment on one hand and for Energy on the other hand start the talks of the MEPs on the Commission's proposals. The new directives on renewables, the Emission Trading Scheme or Carbon Capture and Storage will be among the heated debates.

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Climate change03.04.2008

Upcoming events

Schedule of our climate campaign's conferences, hearings, actions...

Several events will be organised in the coming months in the frame of the Greens/EFA climate campaign. Among them a hearing on biodiversity and climate change, a conference on the topic of "climate refugees" and anoter one dealing with tourism and climate change.

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"The ghosts of soviet nuclear - The case of Mochovce" - A film commissioned by the Greens/EFA