Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ABRIL Catarina, MOURA BORGES Daniel
In a landmark victory for environmental activism, Portugal has become the first European nation to legally enforce a moratorium on deep-sea mining until 2050. This groundbreaking decision represents a crucial step in safeguarding one of Earth’s most vulnerable and least understood ecosystems. (…)
, by Zelena akcija (Green Action Croatia)
The recent clash between Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomašević and environmental organisation Zelena Akcija highlights a growing rift within Croatia’s green-left movement. This controversy is particularly striking given Tomašević’s political roots—he rose to prominence as an environmental activist (…)
, by I.K.
On 25 March, the European Commission published the first round of 47 projects designated as strategic under the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA). Despite the highlighted role of these projects in European resource independence and reindustrialisation, a significant number of extraction projects (…)
, by BILER Stanislav
Czechia - Climate measure opponents have invented a new weapon against saving the planet. Surprisingly, they didn’t think of cutting things they like, but things we could easily do without. Like more motorways or building nuclear reactors.
Politicians and commentators, who have always been (…)
, by New Union Post
Interview with the President of the European Left Party. “The Memorandum of Understanding signed in July 2024 speaks volumes. It disregarded the will of the Serbian people,” he warns, accusing the EU—“which often champions the rule of law globally”—of benefiting from “an unjust and unlawful (…)
, by GEFFNER Daniel
As the death toll continues to rise and the images and harrowing accounts of the tragedy experienced by tens of thousands of people in the Valencian Community as a result of what is known in meteorology as a “cold drop” or isolated high level depression, continue to shock us, it is becoming (…)
, by SÓLYMOS Karin Kőváry
The European Union’s Green Deal has set an ambitious goal of becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The EU’s actions are aimed at using renewable energy sources, eliminating dependence on fossil fuels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Road transport accounts for a (…)
, by SLAČÁLEK Ondřej
How do you know if the climate movement is doing its job well? A certain type of journalist starts to denounce it, the security forces and political scientists close to them start talking about how it should be classified as extremist, and the weekly Echo starts quoting Plato against it.
Jan (…)
, by GREGORY Richard
A trickle of studies warning that the enormous variety of living things on Earth is diminishing has turned into a flood. The evidence for these losses within regions and globally is undeniable. But data on biodiversity, and what is causing its decline, is still patchy – restricted to some (…)
, by HORTON Helena
Trend of faster warming over last 30 years likely to cause exceptional heat, wildfires and floods, warn scientists
Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average in the last 30 years, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The (…)
, by SLIVYAK Vladimir
The Russian nuclear industry has once again managed to avoid inclusion in the latest round of EU sanctions – the eighth in a row to skirt this vital issue in an apparent acknowledgment that Europe’s dependence on Russian nuclear fuel cannot easily be reversed.
Since the start of the war in (…)
, by POENARU Florin
In the midst of panic in energy markets – caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the West’s sanctions policy – all climate goals and demands for environmental, let alone transition, justice are thrown out the window, warns us anthropologist, activist, and author Florin Poenaru (…)
, by HORTON Helena
Strong measures by Europe could quickly deprive Russia of oil and gas income worth billions, experts say
Flights should be banned in continental Europe and car use banned in city centres to save energy and prevent Vladimir Putin profiting from fossil fuel sales, campaigners have said.
It (…)
, by GLENN Ellis
Widespread illegal logging is endangering Romania’s old-growth forests, which are disappearing at an alarming rate.
Romania’s old-growth forests are vast ancient woodlands that straddle the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe. They have survived unchanged since the end of the ice age. But (…)
, by CHARLIE Adélaïde , de Wever van der Heyden Anuna, Hundreds of scientists, NEUBAUER Luisa , Petition / Sign-on Letter, Thousands of activists and citizens, THUNBERG Greta
This letter has been sent to all EU leaders and heads of state on 16 July 2020.
You must stop pretending that we can solve the climate- and ecological crisis without treating it as a crisis
Here are our demands of this open letter:
These are some first steps, essential to our chance of (…)
, by CARL Florian, LAITI Jenni
A recent court verdict could affect Indigenous rights in Sweden and beyond.
In late January, the Indigenous Saami reindeer-herding community, Girjas, won a significant legal battle against the Swedish state. The Swedish Supreme Court legally recognised the Indigenous community’s ancestral (…)
, by KITSON Melissa, MARTÍN Bruno
Experts say that just one-fourth of trash from building sites is ending up in the hands of authorized management companies, even though much of it can be reused “infinitely”
For every citizen in the European Union, around a ton of construction waste is generated every year. But in Spain the (…)
, by GRAHAM-HARRISON Emma
The felling of ancient woodland to make way for a giant coal mine brings together two linked battles for the activist
Greta Thunberg started her long journey to climate summits in the Americas by joining a treetop protest in Germany’s Hambach forest, where environmentalists have been fighting (…)
, by SEILLER Louis
Building a motorway through the Kresna gorges will be a disaster for local people and for biodiversity.
From Valentin Stoichkov’s terrace, the views over the Pirin Mountains are breathtaking. The deputy mayor of the small town of Kresna, in south-western Bulgaria, has built an extension to (…)
, by GILMARTIN Eoghan, GREENE Tommy, GUIJARRO Txema
Disputes over Spain’s national borders have dominated the campaign for today’s election. But Podemos’s radical environmental program against the billionaire class can save the entire planet.
In the final leaders’ debate before today’s knife-edge election, Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias was (…)
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