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Focus
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Focus is an independent NGO advocating for systemic change to foster equity and sustainability, and promote community-based solutions for the issues of our times.

https://focus.si/
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🟢 Focus is an independent NGO advocating for systemic change to foster equity and sustainability, and promote community-based solutions for the issues of our times.

Our work focuses on:

• climate change
• energy
• sustainable mobility
• global responsibility
• justice
• degrowth
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👩‍💻Join us for the new #LifeCOMET webinar!

Learn from practitioners from energy communities in Greece & Croatia how to turn community practice into action through alliances, campaigns, and action-based storytelling.

📅29 January - 10:00-11:30 CET

Register here 👉 lifecomet.rescoop.eu/news/webinar...
January 14, 2026 at 10:58 AM
#Energypoverty of #tenants can be prevented.

Many countries are taking action, but not Slovenia. Therefore
we have analyzed measures implemented across Europe to support the renovation of the #rentalhousing stock.

📃Good Practices for Tackling Energy Poverty in Rental Housing➡️ bit.ly/3LAHaQN

#EPAH
January 13, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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Community engagement is essential for strong, citizen-led energy projects.

The final Life COMET Toolkit blog post looks at key resources for:
🤝 Stakeholder mobilisation
📢 Communication & awareness

Read more: lifecomet.rescoop.eu/news/upgradi...

#LifeCOMET
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Looking forward! ☀️

#LifeCOMET
🥁Save the date!

🪻Our annual European Energy Communities Forum will take place on 5-7 May 2026 in Latvia.

☀️ Three days of workshops, trainings, conferences and inspiration with community energy leaders from around Europe.

✨ Stay tuned! www.rescoop.eu/news-and-eve...
January 9, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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It's 2026 - and our fight for climate justice continues stronger than ever!

Through our 200+ wide network of climate & social justice organisations across Europe, we will keep doing our utmost to stop the backtracking of climate laws, push for energy transition & make polluters pay their fair share
January 1, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Ever heard of cheesing?* 🧀

It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:

1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy

Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️

#Deregulator

youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
The deregulator
YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Europe
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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🚨Omnibus I Political agreement

Early this morning, EU institutions reached a political agreement that marks a turning point:
👉 The first rollback of an adopted due diligence law in history
👉 The first major file pushed through via an EPP–far right alliance
www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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The EU banned many pesticides because they're toxic, yet European corporations keeps exporting them.

🌍 From Brazil to India, Bangladesh to Uganda, people are sending them back to Brussels 🎞️👇

#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🚨 The EU Ombudswoman confirms it: the Commission committed maladministration on #Omnibus I.

Rushed, opaque, corporate-driven lawmaking is not acceptable.

With more Omnibus packages coming, the message is clear: the EU cannot dismantle rights behind closed doors
corporatejustice.org/news/joint-p...
JOINT PRESS RELEASE EU watchdog slams Commission’s undemocratic environmental rollbacks - ECCJ
corporatejustice.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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BAM 💥 Here's #COP30 outcome!

🏆We got Belém Action Mechanism for Global Just Transition - a big victory!

But:
❌No justice package
❌No roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels
❌Weak adaptation finance
❌No credible response to NDC ambition gap
❌‘Shuttle diplomacy’ & lack of transparent updates
COP30 Supports A Just Transition Mechanism - But Leaves Civil Society’s Justice Package Undelivered - CAN Europe
COP30 was hyped as the first implementation COP, the first COP since the landmark ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and the COP that would honour the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. Expe...
caneurope.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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🚨 NEW: More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists on the ground in Brazil for U.N. climate talks.

The Philippines is facing devastating typhoons. Jamaica is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. But it’s #BigPolluters that have direct access to #COP30.

kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Not again!? 84 fossil fuel lobbyists were brought by EU countries to #COP30 😤

See the detailed results of the research done 👇
fossilfreepolitics.org/news/eu-brin...

It is time to free politics from the influence of the fossil fuel industry 🔥

#FossilFreePolitics #FossilFreeEU #KickBigPollutersOut
EU Commission keeps oil and gas lobbyists away from COP30, but France and Italy roll out red carpet - Fossil Free Politics
According to new research by Fossil Free Politics in collaboration with the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition, nine EU governments brought 84 fossil fuel lobbyists into COP30 on their official governme...
fossilfreepolitics.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
How can policies, legal frameworks, and strategic planning better support energy communities?

That's theme 1️⃣ of the Community Energy Upgrading Toolkit by #LifeCOMET partners.

Learn more in our 1️⃣st blog post.⤵️
Supportive frameworks are key to growing energy communities. 🌱

The latest #LifeCOMET blog post shares 3 paths to enable them: better EU transposition, better local & national integration, stronger regulations.

📃Read more: lifecomet.rescoop.eu/news/upgradi...
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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✊ 🇵🇸 No peace without justice
The occupation and violence in Palestine must end. We are demanding an end to the atrocities in Palestine, and insist on a concrete, actionable plan to achieve Palestinian justice, sovereignty and liberation.
www.foei.org/no-peace-wit...
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC

Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.

It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Want to upgrade your energy community? 🌱🌳

The #LifeCOMET Toolkit brings together practical paths and tools to support policy, business models and engagement of citizen-led initiatives.

🔗 Find out more: lifecomet.rescoop.eu/resources/pa...
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🔧 Projekt #RENOVERTY smo zaključili z objavo posodobljenih Kažipotov za energetske prenove domovanj na podeželju, namenjenih ranljivim gospodinjstvom, ki želijo zmanjšati stroške energije in izboljšati svoje udobje z obnovo domov. ⬇️
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Dostojno bivanje je človekova pravica, ne privilegij ‼️

focus.si/dostojno-biv...

#FundingFairerFutures #BuildBetterLives
We made EU leaders face Europe’s housing crisis.

Now it’s time to hold them to their word.
We want #FairHousingNow.

Spread the word:📣our right to housing is not for sale!

#FundingFairerFutures #BuildBetterLives #euDEARprogramme
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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EU leaders promised action on the housing crisis.

Let’s make sure they deliver.

Our right to housing is not for sale.

📝Read our demands👉 caneurope.org/press-releas...

#FairHousingNow #PeopleOverProfit #FundingFairerFutures
October 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
💡 Zapišite si v koledar!

V novembru z družbo Borzen ter z Mestna občina Celje organiziramo strokovno konferenco z naslovom 'Energetske skupnosti - prebivalci v središču energetskega prehoda'. ⬇️
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
V praksi priključni hibridi povzročajo skoraj toliko emisij kot običajna vozila.🚫

Če želimo doseči podnebne cilje in pravi prehod na brezogljično mobilnost, je nujno, da politike temeljijo na dejanskih podatkih, ne na obljubah industrije.‼️

Povzetek analize v slovenščini: focus.si/wp-content/u...
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🟢 Več kot teden je minil od obiska Elena Stancu in Cosmin Bumbuța, raziskovalne novinarke in fotografa, ki sta nas obiskala iz Romunije, a njune besede in podobe, ki sta jih prinesla s seboj, so še v živem spominu. ⬇️
October 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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If science shows us the urgency for climate action, then ethics must show us the way to rebuild momentum, writes
@WWF's @manupulgarvidal.bsky.social, in a new discussion paper on the Ethical Stocktake prepared for #COP30. Read more here: ow.ly/gP9y50WZSaw
September 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Climate justice and Palestinian liberation: Mapping the complicity

The corporate climate criminals fueling the climate crisis are complicit in the genocide in Palestine. Climate justice and Palestinian liberation go hand in hand

See the FoEI x PENGON/FoE Palestine joint publication👇
bit.ly/3IrvIWa
Climate justice and Palestinian liberation: Mapping the complicity - Friends of the Earth International
Climate justice and Palestinian liberation can only be achieved by challenging the systems that allow elites to profit from destruction, and by securing real solutions that centre people, not corporat...
bit.ly
September 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🆕 stories show how old investment treaties still roll out the red carpet for investors to sue EU countries over sanctions against aggressive regimes, national security, climate laws, tax policies …

This secretive #ISDS system puts profits above democracy. Read more 👉 10isdsstories.org #StopISDS
September 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM