💡 And thank you to Katrien Martens & Marin Vandamme (The Protein Project), Agata Meysner Generation Climate Europe (GCE), and Chloé Mikolajczak @chloemiko.bsky.social (TheBridge asbl) for your inspirational pitches!

🙌 Thank you Flora Wallace (Sustainable Public Affairs), MEP Rasmus Nordqvist @rasmusnordqvist.bsky.social, Sylvain Franc de Ferrière (HERO Circle), and Maria Teresa Buco (Novo Nordisk Foundation) for leading the panel and your questions!

We are calling the Commissioner Jessika Roswall @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu to revoke the approvals of ship recycling yards that put workers and the environment at risk.

Click here for the press release: shipbreakingplatform.org/eu-urged-to-...

💡 A thorough #report on the role of scrap steel from end-of-life ships in the #decarbonisation efforts of the European steel industry has been published.

@sandbag-eu.bsky.social

You can access it here: shipbreakingplatform.org/wp-content/u...

👉 Click here to access our full position paper submitted for the EU Circular Economy Act consultation : shipbreakingplatform.org/wp-content/u...

ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

🇪🇺 🚢 Owning one third of the world's fleet, the European Union has a duty to lead the way and set an ambitious example. We will therefore strive to have the development of safe and environmentally sound ship recycling capacity included in the Circular Economy Act.

🏗️ Steel recycling saves 1.5 tonnes of CO2 compared to raw steel. This would lead to huge #emissions reductions and significantly limit #pollution. In the scope of a decade, up to 150 million tonnes of CO2 emissions would be saved, which represents yearly GHG emissions of The Netherlands 🇳🇱