Un-fun fact: the EU still depends on #FossilFuel to stay warm. This leads to costly bills and contributes to wars and the climate crisis! 🔥 Coming into the new EU mandate, here’s a back-to-school recap of the last 5 years with the European Parliament and European Commission and what must come in the next 5 #SustainableHeating This cheat sheet is from Coolproducts, our campaign on heating and cooling and ecodesign for the last 15 years, co-led with ECOS. Want to know more about our work? Find us on https://lnkd.in/gsdFACV Anja Hazekamp Tsvetelina Penkova Yvan Verougstraete Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz Katrin Langensiepen Aurore Lalucq Damian Boeselager Ľudovít Ódor Luděk Niedermayer Davide Sabbadin Cool Heating Coalition
European Environmental Bureau
Environmental Services
Europe’s largest network of environmental NGOs working for a better future where people and nature thrive together.
About us
The EEB is the environmental voice of European citizens. We stand for environmental justice, sustainable development and participatory democracy. Our aim is to ensure the EU secures a healthy environment and rich biodiversity for all. https://linktr.ee/eeb_europe Created in 1974, the EEB is now Europe's largest federation of environmental groups with over 140 member organisations spread across the EU. This means we are guided by the voices of more than 15 million European citizens. We work on a vast array of environmental issues from energy and climate to farming and sustainable development, from eco-design to chemicals, and from biodiversity to EU governance.
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https://linktr.ee/eeb_europe
External link for European Environmental Bureau
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- Environmental Services
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- 51-200 employees
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- Brussels
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1974
- Specialties
- Environment, Climate, Sustainable development, Energy, Agriculture, Chemicals, European Union, Nature, Biodiversity, Air pollution, Eco-design, and Energy efficiency
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Employees at European Environmental Bureau
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📢 Let’s get real: Nuclear power is only feasible with massive public subsidies, which distort electricity markets and hinder renewables. This summer, the EU launched an investigation into Belgium’s planned state aid for extending the life of two ageing nuclear plants. The Belgian government has offered extremely favourable terms to a French energy firm to keep these reactors running, with minimal requirements to reduce nuclear output when prices turn negative. This could undercut the profitability of renewables and disrupt electricity markets across the EU due to Belgium's ⚡️ interconnections. 🤔 It’s time to ask—why are we paying to keep nuclear power alive when safer, cheaper, and cleaner alternatives are readily available? Public money should be directed where it truly makes a difference for carbon neutrality: in renewables, energy efficiency, grids, storage, and a just transition for all. The European Commission must protect the public interest, not prop up a declining industry trying to extend its life with taxpayers' money! 👉 Check out the news: https://lnkd.in/eR-asFRF 👉 Read our nuclear policy brief: https://lnkd.in/eDP-eemV
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Back to school or to the office yet? We feel you! If you are looking for a new squared notebook or stocking up stationery for your company's office, keep an eye out for paper products certified by the EU Ecolabel : they follow strict criteria to ensure more energy efficient manufacturing, fewer emission to air and water, and better protection of forests. #sustainability #greenproducts #backtowork #backtoschool #EUEcolabel EU Environment and Climate BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation
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Animal welfare matters! 🚨 309,000+ people want a dedicated representation of the issue of #AnimalWelfare in the European Commission ✊️ Follow the interactive debate today at 4pm! 👉https://lnkd.in/d82ybJPk See the EEB's full position on EU animal welfare, and why it matters: https://lnkd.in/epTpeUam #EUforAnimals #EndTheCageAge #EndTheCage #AnimalWelfareMatters
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📣 A historic consensus has emerged, as farmers' unions, consumer groups, industry actors, and green NGOs have collectively agreed that 'business-as-usual is not an option.' 🎉 After seven months of intense debate, this moment marks a turning point for the future of EU food and farming. It’s a unified call to politicians across Europe to urgently build a pathway toward true social, economic, and environmental sustainability. "Now we call on the President of the European Commission to uphold her promises and incorporate the collective recommendations into her Vision for Agriculture and Food within the first 100 days, ensuring urgent action that is truly fit for purpose,” stated our Director of Nature, Health and Environment Faustine Bas-Defossez. While the compromise doesn't address every concern, it represents a significant leap in the right direction. Here are just some of the key components of the agreement 👇 #StrategicDialogue #FoodAndFarming #CAP #Nature
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Who pays for the end-of-life treatment and the environmental impacts of vehicles? 🧐 Our Fynn Hauschke, Stephane Arditi and Roberta Arbinolo explore how the new EU law on vehicles can increase accountability within the automotive sector: by extending producers' responsibility to cover the environmental and social costs of their products. Read on 👉 https://lnkd.in/egKqr-dj Auto Recycling World #vehicles #automotive #epr
On the road to effective producer responsibility for vehicles
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💡 🔧Did you know, in some EU regions, you can get vouchers to #repair your things? However, since they often require public funding, they are have yet to become widespread. 💸What if producers should be required to contribute to this too, through #ExtendedProducerResponsibility (#EPR) fees? In the EU, EPR is already in place, where producers must pay a fee to cover the waste management costs of the products they sell. EPR fees, however, should also be dedicated to fund and promote repair - for example by financing repair bonuses and voucher schemes! This already happens in France, but to make this a reality across the EU some policy changes are necessary. Want to know more? Check out our blog post with Right to Repair Europe, Germanwatch e.V., and Runder Tisch Reparatur ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dhrsinG7 #repair #righttorepair #repairvouchers #EU
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☝ There is no science to support reducing wolf protection in the EU, says our Sergiy Moroz in Tracy Keeling's article. The European Commission's proposal is based on outdated data. Despite a recovery to 20,000 wolves, they still face major threats such as illegal killing and hybridisation. 🐺 We need to do more to secure wolves' conservation status. #SaveTheWolf https://lnkd.in/eukQj2E3
Science takes a back seat in the war on wolves
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🔔 FINAL CALL 🔔 #HIRING Do you dream in recycling symbols? Can you talk tech, textiles, and trash all in the same breath? Do you enjoy leading a lovely team of eco warriors? Then we need you! Apply to be our new Head of Circular Economy before September 15! https://lnkd.in/dXhdTXYg Join our squad of savvy sustainability specialists and lead the charge towards a more sustainable, circular future 🌿♻️ #brusselsjobs
📢 We are recruiting a new Head of Circular Economy! Are you an expert in circularity policies, with strong people management and fundraising skills? We're looking for someone just like you to lead our influential Circular Economy team! Explore the job ad and apply or help us spread the word: https://lnkd.in/dXhdTXYg
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🌍 The United Nations Secretary-General's Panel on Transition Minerals finalises its global principles this week! We urge prioritising sufficiency, justice, equity, and Indigenous People’s and human rights. The push for these minerals must not come at the cost of communities and ecosystems. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dCDsw7it
EU Raw Materials Coalition Coordinator and Policy Officer @ European Environmental Bureau | Mining, Environmental Justice
🌍 As the United Nations Secretary-General's Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals prepares its global principles, the EU Raw Materials Coalition, with our members SOMO, Publish What You Pay, Global Witness SIRGE Coalition and allies from EARTHWORKS, Human Rights Watch and OECD Watch, call for a strong focus on justice, equity, and human rights within the energy transition. To achieve this, we propose the following measures: 🔋 Set Demand Reduction Targets & Adopt Circular Economy Approaches: Wealthier nations should lead by curbing excessive resource consumption, especially the rising demand for critical minerals. 🌱 Tackling unsustainable consumption is crucial in addressing the climate crisis. We need to encourage solutions that require fewer resources to meet our energy and mobility needs. (https://lnkd.in/eE7zyHHM) ⚖️ Foster Fair International Trade & Investment: Nations rich in resources should have the sovereignty to manage their mineral exports in alignment with their development goals. 🌍 Governments should exit investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) agreements and consider debt cancellation and restructuring for low and middle-income countries to avoid debt traps. (SOMO: https://lnkd.in/eSw5TtMi) ✊ *Integrate Economic Decolonisation into the Green Transition*: It is essential to dismantle barriers that prevent Global South countries from building green economies on their own terms. 🌿 Debt relief, updated trade rules, and unconditional climate finance are vital to helping these nations enhance local value addition, benefit-sharing, and economic diversification. (SOMO: https://lnkd.in/gN9pXAMM) 🔍 Guarantee Traceability, Transparency, & Accountability in Critical Mineral Value Chains: Transparency and accountability must be ensured throughout the critical mineral value chains. 🛡️ Protect Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: The energy transition must be inclusive and just, acknowledging the essential role Indigenous Peoples play in preserving the planet’s biodiversity and climate. No mining should occur without Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). 🌳 (SIRGE Coalition: https://lnkd.in/e3Cuz7Nr) Let's pledge to an energy transition that genuinely promotes sustainability, justice, and equity. 🌟 #JustMinerals #JustTransition #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeoples #Sustainability #Environment #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice #HumanRights European Environmental Bureau António Guterres, @Ditte Juul Jorgenson , Anabella Rosemberg, Suneeta Kaimal, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), UN Environment Programme, Johana Rocha Gómez Alejandro Gonzalez Emily Iona Stewart Luc Tezenas Joe Bardwell Yblin Roman Escobar Galina Angarova Jan Morrill Juliane Kippenberg