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The European Commission seems hell-bent on removing hard-won protections for people's health, nature, human rights, labour rights and privacy – basically anything that powerful industries feel hurts their profits
This deregulation drive is hugely irresponsible – is it also illegal?
This deregulation drive is hugely irresponsible – is it also illegal?
Deregulation plans break EU law, legal scholars warn
Over one hundred legal experts have warned that the EU’s Omnibus I package, which cuts green and social reporting rules, breached EU law and was "likely to be annulled" if adopted.
euobserver.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The European Commission seems hell-bent on removing hard-won protections for people's health, nature, human rights, labour rights and privacy – basically anything that powerful industries feel hurts their profits
This deregulation drive is hugely irresponsible – is it also illegal?
This deregulation drive is hugely irresponsible – is it also illegal?
EU governments have proposed a watered-down climate target, that won't cut carbon pollution fast enough and is full of loopholes to weaken it more
The EU Parliament's environment committee is about to approve a basically unchanged target
Even the EU's own advisers say this is a major risk
#COP30
The EU Parliament's environment committee is about to approve a basically unchanged target
Even the EU's own advisers say this is a major risk
#COP30
EU’s weakened climate target raises risk of missing net-zero, top adviser warns
Chair of bloc’s science advisory board also dismissed industry calls to scrap carbon pricing.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
EU governments have proposed a watered-down climate target, that won't cut carbon pollution fast enough and is full of loopholes to weaken it more
The EU Parliament's environment committee is about to approve a basically unchanged target
Even the EU's own advisers say this is a major risk
#COP30
The EU Parliament's environment committee is about to approve a basically unchanged target
Even the EU's own advisers say this is a major risk
#COP30
Politicians at the #COP30 climate summit can decide whose side they're on
The ordinary people suffering the loss of their lives, homes and livelihoods?
Or the fossil fuel companies and other high-polluting industries raking in obscene profits by fueling this destruction?
The ordinary people suffering the loss of their lives, homes and livelihoods?
Or the fossil fuel companies and other high-polluting industries raking in obscene profits by fueling this destruction?
Typhoon Kalmaegi (local name Tino) brought in devastating floods across the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing over 100 people and destroying millions worth of public and private infrastructure.
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Politicians at the #COP30 climate summit can decide whose side they're on
The ordinary people suffering the loss of their lives, homes and livelihoods?
Or the fossil fuel companies and other high-polluting industries raking in obscene profits by fueling this destruction?
The ordinary people suffering the loss of their lives, homes and livelihoods?
Or the fossil fuel companies and other high-polluting industries raking in obscene profits by fueling this destruction?
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what a headline
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
what a headline
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Very concerning – deep-sea mining could be doing untold damage to the ocean's ability to support life
Deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone,' first study of its kind finds
A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in th...
phys.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Very concerning – deep-sea mining could be doing untold damage to the ocean's ability to support life
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The EU and governments must put people's lives, health, livelihoods and homes above the profit margins of polluting corporations
Climate action has been too slow, and every fraction of a degree of global heating causes more destruction
#COP30
Climate action has been too slow, and every fraction of a degree of global heating causes more destruction
#COP30
Last 11 years have been hottest on record as ‘alarming’ weather streak continues
Exceptional temperatures are now becoming the norm
www.irishtimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The EU and governments must put people's lives, health, livelihoods and homes above the profit margins of polluting corporations
Climate action has been too slow, and every fraction of a degree of global heating causes more destruction
#COP30
Climate action has been too slow, and every fraction of a degree of global heating causes more destruction
#COP30
"my company's horrendous pollution doesn't matter because someone else bought a forest and we gave them some money to put our logo on their website" – this is what you sound like when you talk about offsets. are you listening to yourself, does this sound like how earth science works??
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"my company's horrendous pollution doesn't matter because someone else bought a forest and we gave them some money to put our logo on their website" – this is what you sound like when you talk about offsets. are you listening to yourself, does this sound like how earth science works??
The EU and governments must put people's lives, health, livelihoods and homes above the profit margins of polluting corporations
Climate action has been too slow, and every fraction of a degree of global heating causes more destruction
#COP30
Climate action has been too slow, and every fraction of a degree of global heating causes more destruction
#COP30
Last 11 years have been hottest on record as ‘alarming’ weather streak continues
Exceptional temperatures are now becoming the norm
www.irishtimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The EU and governments must put people's lives, health, livelihoods and homes above the profit margins of polluting corporations
Climate action has been too slow, and every fraction of a degree of global heating causes more destruction
#COP30
Climate action has been too slow, and every fraction of a degree of global heating causes more destruction
#COP30
Very concerning – deep-sea mining could be doing untold damage to the ocean's ability to support life
Deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone,' first study of its kind finds
A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in th...
phys.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Very concerning – deep-sea mining could be doing untold damage to the ocean's ability to support life
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Oil and gas companies, big tech, industrial farming and food, the chemical industry, car companies, the financial sector – all have armies of lobbyists pushing to weaken protections for people and nature, to boost their profit margins
There must be a watchdog on law-making, to hold power to account
There must be a watchdog on law-making, to hold power to account
What happens after Europe's NGOs are dismantled?
What does Europe look like when independent civil society is silenced, sidelined or slowly starved out of existence? This is not dystopian fiction. It is the logical end-point of a trend already visib...
euobserver.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Oil and gas companies, big tech, industrial farming and food, the chemical industry, car companies, the financial sector – all have armies of lobbyists pushing to weaken protections for people and nature, to boost their profit margins
There must be a watchdog on law-making, to hold power to account
There must be a watchdog on law-making, to hold power to account
what a headline
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
what a headline
What would you say to someone who thinks the EU-Mercosur deal is just about economic opportunity?
Dinamam Tuxá @apiboficial.bsky.social is an Indigenous leader of the Tuxá people, from the Tuxá Indigenous Land in Brazil. He came to Brussels to tell EU leaders exactly why the deal is so harmful.
Dinamam Tuxá @apiboficial.bsky.social is an Indigenous leader of the Tuxá people, from the Tuxá Indigenous Land in Brazil. He came to Brussels to tell EU leaders exactly why the deal is so harmful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What would you say to someone who thinks the EU-Mercosur deal is just about economic opportunity?
Dinamam Tuxá @apiboficial.bsky.social is an Indigenous leader of the Tuxá people, from the Tuxá Indigenous Land in Brazil. He came to Brussels to tell EU leaders exactly why the deal is so harmful.
Dinamam Tuxá @apiboficial.bsky.social is an Indigenous leader of the Tuxá people, from the Tuxá Indigenous Land in Brazil. He came to Brussels to tell EU leaders exactly why the deal is so harmful.
Oil and gas companies, big tech, industrial farming and food, the chemical industry, car companies, the financial sector – all have armies of lobbyists pushing to weaken protections for people and nature, to boost their profit margins
There must be a watchdog on law-making, to hold power to account
There must be a watchdog on law-making, to hold power to account
What happens after Europe's NGOs are dismantled?
What does Europe look like when independent civil society is silenced, sidelined or slowly starved out of existence? This is not dystopian fiction. It is the logical end-point of a trend already visib...
euobserver.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Oil and gas companies, big tech, industrial farming and food, the chemical industry, car companies, the financial sector – all have armies of lobbyists pushing to weaken protections for people and nature, to boost their profit margins
There must be a watchdog on law-making, to hold power to account
There must be a watchdog on law-making, to hold power to account
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The EU's environment ministers have agreed a proposed climate target for 2040 that is much lower than what even the EU's own science advisers called for
Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30
#EU2040
Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30
#EU2040
Environment ministers botch EU climate targets - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels – After a night of haggling, the EU’s national environment ministers have proposed a climate target for 2040 that falls significantly short of even the minimum that the EU’s…
www.greenpeace.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The EU's environment ministers have agreed a proposed climate target for 2040 that is much lower than what even the EU's own science advisers called for
Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30
#EU2040
Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30
#EU2040
Environment ministers botch EU climate targets - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels – After a night of haggling, the EU’s national environment ministers have proposed a climate target for 2040 that falls significantly short of even the minimum that the EU’s…
www.greenpeace.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The EU-Mercosur trade deal is a threat to the climate, to forests, to workers and to your health
Not only that but the way the Commission is pushing the deal through is anti-democratic and undermines rule of law
National parliaments will be sidelined so MEPs must #StopEUMercosur!
Not only that but the way the Commission is pushing the deal through is anti-democratic and undermines rule of law
National parliaments will be sidelined so MEPs must #StopEUMercosur!
Beim Toxic Trade Tour Stop in Berlin haben wir mit vielen anderen Organisationen ein klares Zeichen vor dem Bundeskanzleramt gesetzt – gegen giftigen Handel und gegen das EU-Mercosur-Handelsabkommen.
📣 Helft uns, gegen das Abkommen zu protestieren. Alle Materialien: power-shift.de/aktiv-werden...
📣 Helft uns, gegen das Abkommen zu protestieren. Alle Materialien: power-shift.de/aktiv-werden...
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The EU-Mercosur trade deal is a threat to the climate, to forests, to workers and to your health
Not only that but the way the Commission is pushing the deal through is anti-democratic and undermines rule of law
National parliaments will be sidelined so MEPs must #StopEUMercosur!
Not only that but the way the Commission is pushing the deal through is anti-democratic and undermines rule of law
National parliaments will be sidelined so MEPs must #StopEUMercosur!
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Beim Toxic Trade Tour Stop in Berlin haben wir mit vielen anderen Organisationen ein klares Zeichen vor dem Bundeskanzleramt gesetzt – gegen giftigen Handel und gegen das EU-Mercosur-Handelsabkommen.
📣 Helft uns, gegen das Abkommen zu protestieren. Alle Materialien: power-shift.de/aktiv-werden...
📣 Helft uns, gegen das Abkommen zu protestieren. Alle Materialien: power-shift.de/aktiv-werden...
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Beim Toxic Trade Tour Stop in Berlin haben wir mit vielen anderen Organisationen ein klares Zeichen vor dem Bundeskanzleramt gesetzt – gegen giftigen Handel und gegen das EU-Mercosur-Handelsabkommen.
📣 Helft uns, gegen das Abkommen zu protestieren. Alle Materialien: power-shift.de/aktiv-werden...
📣 Helft uns, gegen das Abkommen zu protestieren. Alle Materialien: power-shift.de/aktiv-werden...
The European Commission wants to open up the EU's chemical safety rules (REACH)
Maybe a Hallowe'en screening of the #ecohorror film Safe is in order...
Maybe a Hallowe'en screening of the #ecohorror film Safe is in order...
"It's in the air, in the water, in our homes"
Safe could have been an ad for the EU's REACH legislation (no, wait, it's fun!) showing how surrounded we are by potentially toxic chemicals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP3k...
Safe could have been an ad for the EU's REACH legislation (no, wait, it's fun!) showing how surrounded we are by potentially toxic chemicals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP3k...
Safe (1995) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris and Julie Burgess.Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3CMA1FhBlu-ray (Criterion) ...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The European Commission wants to open up the EU's chemical safety rules (REACH)
Maybe a Hallowe'en screening of the #ecohorror film Safe is in order...
Maybe a Hallowe'en screening of the #ecohorror film Safe is in order...
no better day to reach into the crypt and resurrect this thread
do you have a favourite #ecohorror film that we've missed?
do you have a favourite #ecohorror film that we've missed?
Happy Hallowe'en everyone
In the spirit of spooky season, we're going to post some of our favourite eco-horror films
It's time for the spiraling disasters unleashed by society's destruction of nature
In the spirit of spooky season, we're going to post some of our favourite eco-horror films
It's time for the spiraling disasters unleashed by society's destruction of nature
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
no better day to reach into the crypt and resurrect this thread
do you have a favourite #ecohorror film that we've missed?
do you have a favourite #ecohorror film that we've missed?
Reposted by Greenpeace EU
Happy Hallowe'en everyone
In the spirit of spooky season, we're going to post some of our favourite eco-horror films
It's time for the spiraling disasters unleashed by society's destruction of nature
In the spirit of spooky season, we're going to post some of our favourite eco-horror films
It's time for the spiraling disasters unleashed by society's destruction of nature
October 31, 2023 at 9:54 AM
Happy Hallowe'en everyone
In the spirit of spooky season, we're going to post some of our favourite eco-horror films
It's time for the spiraling disasters unleashed by society's destruction of nature
In the spirit of spooky season, we're going to post some of our favourite eco-horror films
It's time for the spiraling disasters unleashed by society's destruction of nature
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The European Commission is hell-bent on tearing up as much protection for nature, health, workers, human rights and privacy as possible
Unscrupulous business are happy to maximise their profits by throwing people and nature under the bus – and have hundreds of meetings with the Commission to do it
Unscrupulous business are happy to maximise their profits by throwing people and nature under the bus – and have hundreds of meetings with the Commission to do it
Ombudsman probes Commission over red-tape-cutting chats with industry
The watchdog is examining a complaint that the executive has been “evasive” about its meetings with lobbyists.
www.politico.eu
October 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The European Commission is hell-bent on tearing up as much protection for nature, health, workers, human rights and privacy as possible
Unscrupulous business are happy to maximise their profits by throwing people and nature under the bus – and have hundreds of meetings with the Commission to do it
Unscrupulous business are happy to maximise their profits by throwing people and nature under the bus – and have hundreds of meetings with the Commission to do it
The European Commission is hell-bent on tearing up as much protection for nature, health, workers, human rights and privacy as possible
Unscrupulous business are happy to maximise their profits by throwing people and nature under the bus – and have hundreds of meetings with the Commission to do it
Unscrupulous business are happy to maximise their profits by throwing people and nature under the bus – and have hundreds of meetings with the Commission to do it
Ombudsman probes Commission over red-tape-cutting chats with industry
The watchdog is examining a complaint that the executive has been “evasive” about its meetings with lobbyists.
www.politico.eu
October 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The European Commission is hell-bent on tearing up as much protection for nature, health, workers, human rights and privacy as possible
Unscrupulous business are happy to maximise their profits by throwing people and nature under the bus – and have hundreds of meetings with the Commission to do it
Unscrupulous business are happy to maximise their profits by throwing people and nature under the bus – and have hundreds of meetings with the Commission to do it
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HUGE result from @greenpeace.no, @naturogungdom.bsky.social and youth activists
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
European human rights court sets climate limits for the oil industry - Greenpeace International
Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order ...
www.greenpeace.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
HUGE result from @greenpeace.no, @naturogungdom.bsky.social and youth activists
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
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In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
HUGE result from @greenpeace.no, @naturogungdom.bsky.social and youth activists
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
European human rights court sets climate limits for the oil industry - Greenpeace International
Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order ...
www.greenpeace.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
HUGE result from @greenpeace.no, @naturogungdom.bsky.social and youth activists
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects