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In recent months, tractors have rolled through European cities as farmers protested against the EU’s agricultural policy. The EU's rapid response, which involved rolling back environmental regulations on agricultural subsidies, misses the mark. This approach is a superficial fix that fails to address the underlying problems: aggressive lobbying by extreme right groups manipulating the narrative and the misuse of EU agricultural funds by member states. A new WWF report highlights an uncomfortable truth amidst the growing cost-of-living crisis: EU member states allocate between €34 billion and €...
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The German and Irish governments have secured the support of nine EU member states – including France and Spain – in a bid to rescue a law designed to reverse decades of drastic biodiversity loss across Europe. A vote on the Nature Restoration Law – whose text was agreed in quasi-formal talks with the Euro-pean Parliament, but which a blocking minority of governments subsequently refused to give the final rubber stamp – is expected during an EU Council summit of environment ministers on 17 June, the last such meeting under the current Belgian presidency. “The ongoing absence of a qualified maj...
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Increased renewable and energy efficiency targets, less air pollution and tackling environmental crime were some of the achievements hailed by EU lawmakers driven by the European Green Deal, the EU’s leading climate agenda announced in 2019. The EU’s climate-neutrality plan vowed by 2030 to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55% set against a 1990 benchmark, and to reach net zero by 2050. Simone Tagliapetra, senior fellow at think tank Bruegel and professor of energy and climate policy with Johns Hopkins University, said von der Leyen has “successfully" pivoted the EU towards cl...
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What used to be an extraordinary exception now appears to have become an almost monthly tradition at the European Union headquarters in Brussels: hundreds of tractors on the streets and farmers resorting to sometimes violent actions. This display of anger served to attract the attention of agriculture ministers, who were in the city this week to discuss new measures to respond to farmers' complaints over lost income and red tape. Although farmers have already obtained concessions, such as the relaxation of some administrative and environmental rules, they want more financial help and are again...
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The first ministerial discussion on a 2040 emissions reduction target was overshadowed by the intensifying row over the blocked Nature Restoration Law, with the European Commission and some governments warning it called into question the very credibility of the EU decision making process. The text of the law was agreed in back-room ‘trilogue’ talks in November, and adopted by the parliament last month. But the EU Council presidency holder Belgium, which is itself abstaining, has been unable to muster the necessary majority among governments to give the law the final rubber stamp, with half a d...
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A minority of EU members have once again prevented the adoption of legislation designed to reverse decades of ecosystem degradation and honour a global agreement to halt biodiversity loss. The Nature Restoration Law was proposed in 2022 just months before the EU was instrumental in securing a global agreement to protect 30% of the earth’s land and sea under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. But the future of the key piece of Green Deal legislation, which scraped through the European Parliament despite a bid to torpedo it by the large, conservative European People’s Party and right-win...
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Europe is confronting environmental challenges that are unprecedented in their scale and urgency. From the alarming decline in biodiversity to the relentless march of climate change, the continent faces a series of crises that threaten not just its natural heritage but its very future. To pick just one example, Spain saw 30-degree Celsius weather this winter. We know that the Mediterranean is warming up much faster than the rest of the world - that knowledge is no longer theoretical, we can see it happening in front of our eyes. Global CO2 emissions were the highest in the last year, the tempe...
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Dublin today (14 March) said it was ready to defend its position on peat bogs in reaction to a referral from the European Commission to the EU Court of Justice on Wednesday (March 13). The EU executive has sued Ireland for failure to comply with the Habitats Directive, on grounds that machine turf cutting of peat bogs fails to protect the swamps which act as ‘carbon sinks’. The Irish state has invested significantly in peat bogs since 2011, after the EU executive issued a formal notice to the country calling for action in the conservation and restoration of peatlands, an Irish government spoke...
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The EU is “on the right trajectory” to meet the raft of climate, environmental and ecological goals it has set itself in recent years, but achieving its climate action goals will require considerable additional effort, especially on buildings and transport, the European Commission has warned. This conclusion was set out in a mid-term review of the EU’s eighth Environmental Action Programme (EAP), published today (13 March), 24 hours after the EU executive proposed urgent action to respond to a new normal of extreme weather caused by a rise in global average temperatures that is already touchin...
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Ireland will need to answer for its failure to protect peat bogs, swamps which act as ‘carbon sinks’, following a referral from the European Commission to the EU Court of Justice announced today (March 13). The EU executive has been warning Ireland to take action on the issue since 2011, and considers the country has failed to apply EU law designed to protect the habitats, specifically related to raised bogs and blanket bog habitats, claiming that continued “turf cutting” and “insufficient action” has degraded these “biodiversity hotspots”. In the midlands and the west of Ireland, using turf o...
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