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📋For context📋 - The original complaint: friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas... - The Ombudswoman's findings: corporatejustice.org/news/joint-p... - The Commission's answer in full: www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/doc/corre...

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But we know from the Omnibus 1 process that Commissioner Dombrovskis and his cabinet are the forces manufacturing the urgency and pushing to scrap safeguards outside of process. They cannot and should not be allowed to rubber stamps their own assault on the democratic process.

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Under this, he would now validate derogations from carrying out impact assessments, stakeholder consultations and from the 'evaluate first' principle, therefore handpicking his own criteria for urgency

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But more concerning is that the Commission outlines a process that will turn Commissioner Dombrovskis into judge and jury for deletion of social and environmental protections.

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The Commission once again claims that "an urgency" demanded they reopened the EU due diligence directive (CS3D) and that its policy objectives were preserved in the process: both are false.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

⬇️ BREAKING - EU Commission answers EU Ombudswoman's findings of maladministration following a complaint by @foeeurope.bsky.social and 8 partner organisations. My reaction ⬇️

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"When we destroy a forest, we are creating GDP. When we overfish, we are creating GDP" Head of the UN says the way we measure economic activity needs to change He's not wrong. The vested interests in keeping things the same are considerable, however www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 09/02/2026

📍HAPPENING NOW @xrbelgium.bsky.social and activists from Greenpeace Belgium are blocking the offices of CEFIC, the European chemicals lobby group ‼️ 50 activists have declared the area a climate crime scene!

Extinction Rebellion activists block the entrance to CEFIC in Brussels with signs reading "CEFIC = TOXIC LOBBY", "AREA CLOSED", "CEFIC, COUNCIL FOR ECOCIDE, FAMINE AND IRREVERSIBLE COLLAPSE"

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Alban Grosdidier @albangd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

#nottheonion If you "supply bottled water and carbonated drinks", you can be a gold sponsor of the European presidency. Yup, the Cyprus presidency is sponsored by Coca-Cola and fossil fuel company Eko. Just what we need... cyprus-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/presidenc...

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Cyprus is hosting the Presidency of the Council of the European Union with the support of sponsors who provide products, services and expertise, making a substantial contribution to the successful org...

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Earlier today, a majority of members from the 3 far-right groups, the conservatives and the liberals rubber-stamped the final #Omnibus 1 🟰 Final destruction of rules to protect people and the environment from corporate harm 🫥🤯 More here ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/alban-...

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#omnibus1 #csddd | Alban Grosdidier

😱 This is the European Parliament caving to pressure coming from the far-right, the US administration and greedy multinationals. 🚫 Earlier today, a majority of members from the 3 far-right groups, th...

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

LNG Imports Fall in Asia, Europe. Drop-off in demand for LNG just as a wave of new production facilities come online raises questions about whether demand will ever materialize for a fuel that investors have spent huge $ to bring to market. www.theenergymix.com/lng-imports-...

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LNG Imports Fall in Asia, Europe as Investors Get Set for Phaseout

A drop-off in Asian and European demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG), just as a wave of new production facilities come online, is raising questions about whether demand will ever materialize for a ...

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Alban Grosdidier @albangd.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Who’s tired of getting Facebook lobbying ads in Every. Single. Podcast. you listen to? 🙋

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We are getting closer and closer to Brussels. @ec.europa.eu can you hear us yet👂👂 We do not want deregulation❗️ We want clean air, safe water, and healthy soil. Let’s protect them! #March4Rights day 2

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

🚨 LIVE in MAASTRICHT We're kicking off the #BackToTheFuture march! We have come together with many others to make sure EU decisionmakers hear us all the way down in Brussels: Protect people ➕ planet Going backwards is not an option! We want protections for people, communities and environment

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Here's how the #March4Rights is going a couple kilometres in 🥾 Going #BackToTheFuture with @albangd.bsky.social, Winnie from @milieudefensie.bsky.social jong and Abigail from Jordens Vanner 👀

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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

You need red tape to cut red tape.

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Counting down the days! Join us at @thegreenfix.bsky.social's climate drinks on Wednesday to find out what we have in store or check out our website for info ⬇️ 📅 17 Sept ⏰ 18:00 📍 Café Le Fontainas, BXL 📱https://backtothefuturemarch.org/ #BackToTheFuture #March4Rights

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

S A V E 📢 T H E 📢 D A T E Human & environmental rights should never be placed at the whim of corporations. But that is what the EU is doing by revising and watering down sustainability laws! We can't let that happen. Join #BackToTheFuture ➕ sign up for updates ⬇️ www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

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Friends of the Earth International @foeint.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The destruction of Palestine’s only seed bank — UAWC's in Hebron — is an attack on the future of farming and food sovereignty. We stand in solidarity with Palestinian farmers. #UAWC #FreePalestine 🔗 bit.ly/3UcNNJY

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Plastic is often seen as a cheap material but scientists in The Lancet argue it is expensive when including damage to health One estimate of the health damage from just three plastic chemicals – PBDE, BPA and DEHP – in 38 countries was $1.5tn a year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

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Alban Grosdidier @albangd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The International Court of Justice ruling on States’ legal obligations to combat climate change, and what happens when they don’t ⬇️ Live thread by @duycks.bsky.social

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

📣 ATTENTION #journalists! We’re putting together a press list around the #EUIsrael Association Agreement: upcoming developments, context, reactions. 📩 If you're covering this or want to stay in the loop, DM or reply. Also happy to chat if you're keen!

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Greenpeace France @greenpeace.fr · 09/07/2025

Le 10 juillet 1985, un de nos militants, Fernando Pereira, mourait lors de l'attentat commis par les services secrets français contre le Rainbow Warrior. Hier comme aujourd'hui, derrière chaque militant·e réprimé·e, c’est une part de notre démocratie qui vacille. www.nouvelobs.com/opinions/202...

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Attaques répétées contre la société civile : un signal inquiétant de dérive autoritaire du pouvoir

Alors que ce 10 juillet marque le 40ᵉ anniversaire de l’attentat contre le « Rainbow Warrior », plusieurs responsables d’ONG – dont Jean-François Julliard (Greenpeace), Cécile Duflot (Oxfam), Claire N...

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Alban Grosdidier @albangd.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The European Commission is loosening rules around the use of carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic substances in consumer products. But don't worry, they trust for-profit industries will make sure we're safe 🙄 @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Saying it like it is when we talk about #deregulation: "the scale of the cuts in the first omnibus proposal [..] showed that the simplification argument was 'basically bollocks' [..] it’s not just weakening it a little bit [..] The heart of the proposal has been taken out.” ~ Paul de Clerck 👀 ⬇️

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EU rollback on environmental policy is gaining momentum, warn campaigners

Observers shocked at scale and speed of deregulation drive they say is watering down European Green Deal and laws

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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It's 2025 and newspapers are still using images of people playing in water to accompany stories about heatwaves. @theguardian.com

Screenshot of The Guardian website with the title: Heatwave grips southern Europe, Health and environmental alerts issued with high temperatures expected in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

The image is of people playing in a urban water fountain.

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Ouest-France @ouest-france.fr · 24/06/2025

« Le monde politique non seulement procrastine, mais il enchaîne même les reculs » concernant l’environnement, déplore le Réseau Action Climat, ce mardi 24 juin 2025. L’ONG liste une quarantaine de reculs environnementaux depuis six mois.

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« Au moins 43 reculs » environnementaux ont eu lieu ces six derniers mois déplore un groupe d’ONG

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So, what's next? Well first the General Affairs Council (ministers from member states) may or may not publicly endorse the agreement. They're in a meeting as I type. But mostly, the EU Parliament needs to negotiate its position. And we need to make it clear they can't mess this up like others did.

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5️⃣Last but not least, Council is proposing to delay the law's transpition deadline by a further year - after it was already postponed three months ago. Nevermind the urgency of the climate crisis, nor the life-or-death situation faced by some victims of corporate abuse.

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This is the second time the CS3D personal scope is narrowed. For most of the original negotiations, about 16k companies would have been covered. As adopted in 2024, about 3400 corporate groups are covered. Now it could be just 1000.

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4️⃣Council proposes to further reduce the amount of companies covered by CS3D. Companies would now be in scope only if they fulfill the following criteria. >5000 employees >€1.5B yearly turnover This leaves roughly a thousand companies in scope.

Well, the Council basically decided to Frankenstein the whole thing: risk-based approach, but only on direct business relationships. "identification and assessment obligations are extended in case of objective and verifiable information suggesting adverse impacts beyond direct business partners."

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The Commission decided to go against that, and to borrow from the German Supply Chain Act: due diligence obligations would only extend to direct business relationships, unless "plausible information" would be available to the companies that violations were occurring deeper in the value chain.

3️⃣ CS3D originally required for companies to take a risk-based approach to their due diligence requirements. In plain English, look at where the risk of violations is higher (depending on countries, sectors, etc) and focus on that first.

This really endangers access to justice for victims of corporate abuse. Instead of a single regime, they could be facing 27 different potential regimes - and this opens the door for large multinationals to be regime-shopping. A clear loss for swift and fair justice.

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2️⃣CS3D's unified civil liability regime was already under attack in the Commission's proposal. The Council, despite original push back from countries like France, Denmark, Spain or the Netherlands (non-exhaustive) is aligning with the Commission's proposal.

These design elements in CS3D as adopted in July 2024: "intermediate and 2050 climate neutrality targets, and where relevant, the exposure of the company to coal-, oil- and gas-related activities." So let's write climate transition plans without talking about targets or fossil fuels, shall we?

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And the nail in the coffin: "companies should be given more flexibility regarding the content of the plan. [...] the design elements set out in Article 22(1), second subparagraph of that Directive should be made optional"

"It does not require making every possible effort, [nor] adopting the best standard in the given sector for all actions [...]" My interpretation: minimum efforts required.

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...companies would now be expected to take implementing actions with reasonable efforts. The language difference may seem vague, but the paragraph that follows gives a pretty clear indication of the direction of travel ⬇️

1️⃣Based on the 6th draft of the compromise proposed by the Polish presidency, it seems member states are proposing considerable changes to art. 22 (climate obligations). Instead of a duty to adopt and put into effect climate transition plans in line with the Paris Agreement, through best efforts...

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For anyone catching up, Omnibus 1 is the first of a series of deregulation packages attacking a variety of legislations secured under the previous commission's mandate. It's widely seen as the canary in the coal mine for the survival of the European Green Deal.

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