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Corporate lobbyists will today be ticking off a few more demands from their deregulation hit-list.
And by emphasising how it will “stress test” all EU environment rules by 2029 it’s clear that far more roll-back is in the pipeline.
Find out more:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
And by emphasising how it will “stress test” all EU environment rules by 2029 it’s clear that far more roll-back is in the pipeline.
Find out more:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Corporate lobbyists will today be ticking off a few more demands from their deregulation hit-list.
And by emphasising how it will “stress test” all EU environment rules by 2029 it’s clear that far more roll-back is in the pipeline.
Find out more:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
And by emphasising how it will “stress test” all EU environment rules by 2029 it’s clear that far more roll-back is in the pipeline.
Find out more:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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"With this eighth so-called omnibus we can see the European Commission continues to prioritise the short-term interests of industry over the health and environmental concerns of citizens."
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"With this eighth so-called omnibus we can see the European Commission continues to prioritise the short-term interests of industry over the health and environmental concerns of citizens."
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
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𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 - 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 🖐
The ongoing “simplification” drive risks setting back nature protection by decades and fails to safeguard us from the climate crisis.
Read the full piece by BirdLife Europe, @clienteartheur.bsky.social, @wwf.eu & @eeb.org 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
The ongoing “simplification” drive risks setting back nature protection by decades and fails to safeguard us from the climate crisis.
Read the full piece by BirdLife Europe, @clienteartheur.bsky.social, @wwf.eu & @eeb.org 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 - 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 🖐
The ongoing “simplification” drive risks setting back nature protection by decades and fails to safeguard us from the climate crisis.
Read the full piece by BirdLife Europe, @clienteartheur.bsky.social, @wwf.eu & @eeb.org 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
The ongoing “simplification” drive risks setting back nature protection by decades and fails to safeguard us from the climate crisis.
Read the full piece by BirdLife Europe, @clienteartheur.bsky.social, @wwf.eu & @eeb.org 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
Terrible news, if not unexpected: European Commission in massive attack on regulations that protect nature and public health - #HandsOffNature
🚨 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐄𝐔 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐣𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬!
The EU law-dismantling proposals published today mark a dangerous turn toward weaker rules and increased public health risks.
Read our full press release: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
#HandsOffNature
The EU law-dismantling proposals published today mark a dangerous turn toward weaker rules and increased public health risks.
Read our full press release: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
#HandsOffNature
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Terrible news, if not unexpected: European Commission in massive attack on regulations that protect nature and public health - #HandsOffNature
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As we wait to hear about the Commission's latest round of reckless #deregulation via the so-called environment omnibus, there are 2 important stories out today...
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As we wait to hear about the Commission's latest round of reckless #deregulation via the so-called environment omnibus, there are 2 important stories out today...
Important new article in science magazine PNAS : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122
"The wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse" and "no detectable changes in the likelihood of fire or area burned in beetle-affected snag forests" either.
"The wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse" and "no detectable changes in the likelihood of fire or area burned in beetle-affected snag forests" either.
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Important new article in science magazine PNAS : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122
"The wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse" and "no detectable changes in the likelihood of fire or area burned in beetle-affected snag forests" either.
"The wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse" and "no detectable changes in the likelihood of fire or area burned in beetle-affected snag forests" either.
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The omnibus reaps yet another victim: forests and their protections against the endless consumption of pulp and paper.
Read more on our full statement: environmentalpaper.org/2025/12/defo...
#EUDR #Books #PulpPaper #Omnibus
Read more on our full statement: environmentalpaper.org/2025/12/defo...
#EUDR #Books #PulpPaper #Omnibus
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The omnibus reaps yet another victim: forests and their protections against the endless consumption of pulp and paper.
Read more on our full statement: environmentalpaper.org/2025/12/defo...
#EUDR #Books #PulpPaper #Omnibus
Read more on our full statement: environmentalpaper.org/2025/12/defo...
#EUDR #Books #PulpPaper #Omnibus
Drax power station has been granted permission to increase hazardous emission from one of its wood pellet plants in the US, but both at home and abroad people aren’t taking Dirty Drax’s polluting practices lying down
www.catalystmedia.org.uk/environment/...
www.catalystmedia.org.uk/environment/...
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Drax power station has been granted permission to increase hazardous emission from one of its wood pellet plants in the US, but both at home and abroad people aren’t taking Dirty Drax’s polluting practices lying down
www.catalystmedia.org.uk/environment/...
www.catalystmedia.org.uk/environment/...
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On 8-9 Dec, the @EU_Commission hosts its Industrial Carbon Management Forum—promoting #CCS & dominated by fossil lobbyists. Despite decades of CCS failures, €billions still flow in, propping up dirty industries. A big win for fossil lobbyists. #ICMForum
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
Mapping the money behind carbon capture | Corporate Europe Observatory
New research by Corporate Europe Observatory and Oil Change International shows that Big Polluters have captured €17 billion in public subsidies for failed carbon capture technology – because fossil f...
corporateeurope.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
On 8-9 Dec, the @EU_Commission hosts its Industrial Carbon Management Forum—promoting #CCS & dominated by fossil lobbyists. Despite decades of CCS failures, €billions still flow in, propping up dirty industries. A big win for fossil lobbyists. #ICMForum
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
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We join Via Campesina in condemning the arbitrary and violent attacks on their Palestinian member group by Israeli forces viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests
Our member organisation operates in full accordance with international law ; its primary role is to support farmers in Palestine.
viacampesina.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We join Via Campesina in condemning the arbitrary and violent attacks on their Palestinian member group by Israeli forces viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
New study on how to reduce the harm to public health done by particulate pollution published in Nature, shows emissions from both traffic and #biomass burning needs to be curbed across Europe (true for UK, too): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Oxidative potential of atmospheric particles in Europe and exposure scenarios - Nature
Extensive oxidative potential measurements from across Europe analysed with the two most common assays, dithiothreitol and ascorbic acid, using a standardized protocol show the strong influence o...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
New study on how to reduce the harm to public health done by particulate pollution published in Nature, shows emissions from both traffic and #biomass burning needs to be curbed across Europe (true for UK, too): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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☠️ New GMOs: The result of last night comes down to a massive handout of our foodchain to pesticide firms like Bayer and BASF.
This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
☠️ New GMOs: The result of last night comes down to a massive handout of our foodchain to pesticide firms like Bayer and BASF.
This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
Hugely depressing - Drax burning record amounts of wood, according to www.theguardian.com/business/202... . All because of generous subsidies paid via every UK resident's electricity bills. Massive harm to forests, esp. in southeastern US and western Canada. #BigBadBiomass #AxeDrax
UK using more wood to make electricity than ever, Drax figures show
Giant biomass plant reveals burning of wood pellets made 9% of UK’s electricity in July, its largest ever monthly share
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Hugely depressing - Drax burning record amounts of wood, according to www.theguardian.com/business/202... . All because of generous subsidies paid via every UK resident's electricity bills. Massive harm to forests, esp. in southeastern US and western Canada. #BigBadBiomass #AxeDrax
Happening tomorrow: globaljusticeecology.org/the-wild-ame... - Film screening about how American chestnuts can recover without #GETrees. Go to the link to register on Zoom, 7pm Eastern Time, midnight UK time
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Happening tomorrow: globaljusticeecology.org/the-wild-ame... - Film screening about how American chestnuts can recover without #GETrees. Go to the link to register on Zoom, 7pm Eastern Time, midnight UK time
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Sign our petition asking EU policy makers to:
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & meet climate goals through rapid phase out of fossil fuels
1/2
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & meet climate goals through rapid phase out of fossil fuels
1/2
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Sign our petition asking EU policy makers to:
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & meet climate goals through rapid phase out of fossil fuels
1/2
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & meet climate goals through rapid phase out of fossil fuels
1/2
We join over 100 businesses, investors & civil society voices with one message: implement the EU Deforestation Regulation now: www.clientearth.org/latest/docum... #EUDR No more delays!
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We join over 100 businesses, investors & civil society voices with one message: implement the EU Deforestation Regulation now: www.clientearth.org/latest/docum... #EUDR No more delays!
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In a new piece in @newsweek.com, our colleagues from @dogwoodalliance.org and @nrdc.org imagine forests valued for life, not fuel & where global energy giants can’t turn ecosystems into extraction zones.
Protecting forests means protecting people. 🌍🌱
www.newsweek.com/foreign-ener...
Protecting forests means protecting people. 🌍🌱
www.newsweek.com/foreign-ener...
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In a new piece in @newsweek.com, our colleagues from @dogwoodalliance.org and @nrdc.org imagine forests valued for life, not fuel & where global energy giants can’t turn ecosystems into extraction zones.
Protecting forests means protecting people. 🌍🌱
www.newsweek.com/foreign-ener...
Protecting forests means protecting people. 🌍🌱
www.newsweek.com/foreign-ener...
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✍🏽 Sign our petition asking EU politicians to:
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & phase out fossil fuels
2️⃣ End public subsidies for green hydrogen import infrastructure
3️⃣ Support countries in the Global South with their own just transitions
www.corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-petit...
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & phase out fossil fuels
2️⃣ End public subsidies for green hydrogen import infrastructure
3️⃣ Support countries in the Global South with their own just transitions
www.corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-petit...
Tell the EU: No to Green Hydrogen Imports | Corporate Europe Observatory
corporateeurope.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
✍🏽 Sign our petition asking EU politicians to:
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & phase out fossil fuels
2️⃣ End public subsidies for green hydrogen import infrastructure
3️⃣ Support countries in the Global South with their own just transitions
www.corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-petit...
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & phase out fossil fuels
2️⃣ End public subsidies for green hydrogen import infrastructure
3️⃣ Support countries in the Global South with their own just transitions
www.corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-petit...
📣Urgent action: the UK's single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied for government support to power an AI data centre in Yorkshire by burning trees! 🌳🔥😮
🏭 Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🔥🌳🔥 #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax
🏭 Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🔥🌳🔥 #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax
Urgent action: Please ask your MP to say no to Drax’s AI data centre bid
The UK’s single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied with the University of York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority for public support to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre as pa...
actionnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
📣Urgent action: the UK's single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied for government support to power an AI data centre in Yorkshire by burning trees! 🌳🔥😮
🏭 Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🔥🌳🔥 #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax
🏭 Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🔥🌳🔥 #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax
We have also signed this important letter against EU imports of green #hydrogen:
Corporate Europe Observatory was one of more than 130 organisations that signed an open letter today telling the EU to scrap its neocolonial #greenhydrogen import plans.
You can read the full letter here: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...
#No2GreenHydrogenImports
You can read the full letter here: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...
#No2GreenHydrogenImports
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We have also signed this important letter against EU imports of green #hydrogen:
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Drax wants to burn trees to power an AI data centre!
Ask your MP to urge the government to reject this bid.
#StopDrax #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis #Deforestation
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
share.google/z8yIa0DkXpc7...
Ask your MP to urge the government to reject this bid.
#StopDrax #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis #Deforestation
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
share.google/z8yIa0DkXpc7...
Urgent action: Please ask your MP to say no to Drax’s AI data centre bid
The UK’s single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied with the University of York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority for public support to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre as pa...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Drax wants to burn trees to power an AI data centre!
Ask your MP to urge the government to reject this bid.
#StopDrax #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis #Deforestation
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
share.google/z8yIa0DkXpc7...
Ask your MP to urge the government to reject this bid.
#StopDrax #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis #Deforestation
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
share.google/z8yIa0DkXpc7...
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📣 130+ groups tell EU to scrap its #greenhydrogen import plans that prioritise Europe's flawed energy agenda over the rights, needs, and futures of communities in the Global South.
Read more 🧵 1/5 👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/m...
Read more 🧵 1/5 👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/m...
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
📣 130+ groups tell EU to scrap its #greenhydrogen import plans that prioritise Europe's flawed energy agenda over the rights, needs, and futures of communities in the Global South.
Read more 🧵 1/5 👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/m...
Read more 🧵 1/5 👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/m...
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🤫 Can’t make it tomorrow?
Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🤫 Can’t make it tomorrow?
Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
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🍿Last chance to catch the premiere of CEO’s documentary “The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa” featuring the voices and stories of some of the most affected communities in South Africa that are being ignored by EU politicians.
📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🍿Last chance to catch the premiere of CEO’s documentary “The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa” featuring the voices and stories of some of the most affected communities in South Africa that are being ignored by EU politicians.
📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
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SHOCKING 🚨: The UK just had its worst wildfire year on record.
47,000 hectares burned while firefighters were drafted from across the country to supplement under resourced local crews.
A safe future starts with funding the people on the frontline.
47,000 hectares burned while firefighters were drafted from across the country to supplement under resourced local crews.
A safe future starts with funding the people on the frontline.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
SHOCKING 🚨: The UK just had its worst wildfire year on record.
47,000 hectares burned while firefighters were drafted from across the country to supplement under resourced local crews.
A safe future starts with funding the people on the frontline.
47,000 hectares burned while firefighters were drafted from across the country to supplement under resourced local crews.
A safe future starts with funding the people on the frontline.