Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

European Environmental Bureau🍃

@eeb.org

7.7K followers 260 following 970 posts

We are the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Europe's largest network of environmental NGOs. We work for a better future where people and nature thrive together. https://linktr.ee/eeb_europe

linktr.ee

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · Feb 5

🌿✨ Looking for the growing list of EEB’s community on Bluesky? We've got you covered! From staff to members & supporters, our EEB Starter Pack is the perfect way to connect. 💙

Who’s missing?

2 14 29

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 13h

Amazon is poisoning the Global South for profit by still selling illegal, mercury-laden skin lighteners in 23+ countries, despite a U.S. ban.

🧪 25 of 31 creams tested broke mercury limits by thousands of times.

📘 Read the report 👉 www.zeromercury.org/poisoning-fo...

3 3

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

Want to learn more? 🔍

Join us tonight for an evening of networking and discussion on our latest finding. Can't make it? You can always join us tomorrow for our second annual conference "Methane Matters: now more than ever" - limited tickets available!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/methane-ma...

Methane Matters: Now More Than Ever

The second annual conference hosted by the Methane Matters Coalition

www.eventbrite.co.uk

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

New report by the #MethaneMatters coalition reveals how uncontrolled #biogas expansion is being funded by the public purse🚨💸

From missing sustainability checks to a failure to mitigate #methane leaks, read the report to discover how EU climate goals are at risk 👇
eeb.org/exposed-unco...

Exposed: Uncontrolled biogas expansion funded by public purse

More than €37 billion in public money available and €28 billion of private investments committed - with added risks to climate and health A new report from the Methane Matters coalition - a consortium...

eeb.org

1 3 9

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

When communities are engaged from the start:

👌 Projects are more resilient and accepted
🌳 Nature is better protected
🤝 Trust is built
🏅 Climate action becomes a shared success

Read the full paper here: eeb.org/library/publ...

Public participation in renewable energy projects and community benefits

The EU has set the stage for a faster transition to renewable energy with the Renewable Energy Directive (the 'RED' adopted in 2023). However, how we accelerate matters. While many projects are well-p...

eeb.org

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

✅ Public participation is not a box to tick - it’s the foundation of a just energy transition.

Our new guide unpacks the latest EU rules and details how and when citizens can get involved in renewable energy planning, from shaping policies to contributing to project proposals.

2 2 4

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

We have just responded to the EU’s call for evidence on its new Heating and Cooling Strategy.

Here’s what we said: eeb.org/library/eebs...

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

Europe’s warmth should serve people, not polluters and oligarchs.

1 1 7

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

One of the biggest barriers to clean heating is economic.

Europe needs fairer energy taxation that stops favouring gas over electricity - and financing models that make heat pumps affordable from day one.

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

Let’s not replace one problem with another.

We can’t afford experiments that delay real progress.

The future of heating is renewable.

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

Europe has everything it needs to heat homes without fossil fuels - what’s missing is the scale.

Let’s renovate, electrify, and make clean heat the norm.

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

❤️‍🔥 Europe has the power to reclaim its heat.

It’s time to kick fossil dependence to the curb.

The EU is drafting a new Heating & Cooling Strategy - a unique chance to break free from fossil dependency and make renewable, affordable heat the European standard.

Here’s how 👇

1 6 20

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 5d

30,000 people filled Brussels’ streets, demanding stronger laws to protect people, planet, and democracy. As deregulation spreads, citizens are prescribing a better cure, action, solidarity, and justice.

👉 Read the full newsletter here: shorturl.at/Lltg7
👉Subscribe here: shorturl.at/9EMK6

🤒 EUROPE IS MISDIAGNOSED - New Leaf

Good morning, Europe got a blood test this week. So, how are its productivity and competitiveness levels? Oh, not that again. We have been measuring Europe’s pulse in GDP ticks since the Draghi report...

shorturl.at

1 3

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 5d

In Parliament, the fever rises, rules to protect nature and farming are stripped away, and even “veggie burgers” face bans. But outside Brussels’ halls, Europe’s pulse beats stronger.

1 3

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 5d

🤒 EUROPE IS MISDIAGNOSED

Blood tests found PFAS in every EU leader tested, proof that pollution runs through Europe’s veins. As calls grow for a full ban on “forever chemicals,” Brussels offers the wrong cure: weaker protections disguised as “simplification.”

1 8 11

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 6d

*But seriously, prepare to be alarmed if you read to the bottom of this article 👀

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 6d

👇 This investigation should be a wake-up call: we cannot afford to lose ambition on nature and soil protection or the laws that uphold it.

This month’s vote on the #SoilMonitoringLaw is a chance for policymakers to advance action against the unsustainable sprawl that's eating up our earth.

1 1 2

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 6d

🫣 Don't look down*

Europe is quietly turning from green to grey: from 2018-2023, we lost 9,000 km² of nature and cropland to construction. That's an area the size of Cyprus.

And every layer of soil lost erodes our ability to grow food, filter water, and buffer weather extremes.

greentogrey.eu

Green to Grey – How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left

Green to Grey is a pioneering collaboration between journalists and scientists counting every green space lost in Europe between January 2018 and December 2023.

greentogrey.eu

2 11 20

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 6d

Food concerns everyone, and so do the rules that protect it. If the EU rolls back food and pesticide laws, we all lose: our health, nature, clean water 📢

We built these protections together over time. Now let’s defend them 💪

Speak up now: www.pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe...!

6 13

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 6d

Green products: it's time for supermarkets to step up!

Retailers must make products with the #EUEcolabel (and equivalent labels) available, visible and affordable – so the sustainable choice becomes the easy choice everywhere in Europe.

Read our press release: eeb.org/cheaper-but-... @beuc.eu

1 4 13

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 7d

Find out more about ZeroPM here ➡️ zeropm.eu

Welcome to ZeroPM - ZeroPM

ZeroPM is a research project funded by EU’s research and innovation funding programme, Horizon 2020. ZeroPM will enable the EU Green Deal‘s ambition towards Zero Pollution of Persistent, Mobile Substa...

zeropm.eu

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 7d

🌍 This week, the EEB has been in Greece for a key 'ZeroPM' project workshop on water pollution and circularity 🔄

💧Our water expert Sara Johansson highlighted why we must stop pollution at the source to ensure clean, safe & affordable water for all. The key message? Prevention beats cleanup!

1 2 6

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 7d

Farming resilience relies on functioning ecosystems and healthy soils🌱🧑‍🌾

Yet MEPs today voted to remove the few remaining safeguards in the #CAP, failing to protect public interest and the future of EU #FoodAndFarming 🚨

Press release 👉 eeb.org/meps-shred-f...

"Stripping away protections against soil erosion and for vulnerable grasslands will not “simplify” farmers lives but expose them further to the escalating climate, nature, and pollution crisis." - Théo Paquet

4 7

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 7d

While #fastfashion brands flood the market with cheap, synthetic garments, much of what we discard ends up in Asia and Africa, polluting water, harming local workers health, and overwhelming local reuse markets.

We must act at the source.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #circulartextilesday

1 12 21

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 8d

👀 Learn more about SLAPPs - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation - and their impacts here: meta.eeb.org/2025/09/29/e...

Protecting our right to know: How SLAPPs threaten access to information - New Leaf

Every year on 28 September, the world marks the International Day of Universal Access to Information. Gag lawsuits, or SLAPPs, pose a threat to the right to know. But the Europe's anti-SLAPP law is a ...

meta.eeb.org

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 8d

👉 This is a textbook SLAPP: a powerful corporation weaponising the courts to drain citizens’ resources, stifle debate, and discourage scrutiny of its project.

Makes some noise and show solidarity with Roberto Malini and Lisetta Sperindei by sharing their story.

#StopSLAPPs

1 1