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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 19h
Excellent news from Austria! Vienna has become the first capital city to sign Greenpeace's pledge to get cities off gas by 2040, and move to 100% renewables Cites can help get Europe off oil and gas, cutting pollution and people's energy bills at the same time
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Stadt Wien unterzeichnet als erste europäische Hauptstadt Greenpeace-Deklaration für Ausstieg aus Gas
Umweltschutzorganisation begrüßt diesen Schritt und fordert weitere Städte auf, dem Wiener Beispiel zu folgen
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 20h
The EU and national governments must tax fossil fuel companies' obscene profits made at the expense of ordinary people and our livable planet Use this money to get us off oil and gas for good – renewables, insulation, public transport, more electrification – and make this the last fuel crisis
ft.com
TotalEnergies boosts buybacks and dividends as oil prices surge
French energy company increases shareholder payouts as effect of Iran war increases cash flows
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 24/09/2026
In Brussels in October? Some important climate dates for your diary! Sunday 11 October: Climate march – meeting at 2pm, Brussels North station 11-17 October: People vs Gas camp – join for some or all, to resist fossil gas (register at the link below)
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PEOPLE VS GAS – Fossil Fuels are making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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maikmarahrens.bsky.social @maikmarahrens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨DK to temporary halt expansion of conventional pig production The new Danish GOV pulls through on its election promise to create a 'more sustainable pig production with significantly better animal welfare' Fits meat consumption trends & should be copied by other gov's. mgtp.dk/nyheder/2026...
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Regeringen sætter en midlertidig stopper for flere og større konventionelle grisestalde
Regeringen vil skabe en ny generation af dansk griseproduktion med markant bedre dyrevelfærd og mere værdiskabelse i Danmark. Indtil rammevilkårene er på plads, indføres et midlertidigt stop for nyeta...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 24/09/2026
WATCH this powerful short film about a boy who writes to jailed climate activists 🥲 Which is a bigger "public nuisance" - the breakdown of our planet's life support systems, or the call to conscience of climate activism? Protest is NOT a crime #TimeToResist www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Prison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentary
A teenager struggling with climate anxiety searches for hope in an unexpected place – writing letters to imprisoned activists. Max, 14, is on a quest to understand the human stories behind direct acti...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 22/09/2026
11 Greenpeace activists are about to face trial in Spain The prosecution is seeking five years in prison for the activists - who peacefully protested fossil gas in Sagunto in 2021 Activism is not a crime. The world is watching! #TimeToResist #Sagunto11 @greenpeace.es
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 21/09/2026
Excellent news! There should be no new drilling for oil and gas, and especially not in areas as environmentally precious as the Arctic Governments and the EU must get firmly on the path to 100% renewables, and get off imported fossil fuels as soon as possible – for the climate, and people's bills
euronews.com
Brussels to keep ban on Arctic oil and gas drilling
Euronews has learned that the European Commission will maintain its ban on new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, ahead of the 20 October announcement of its revamped Northern Neighbourhood strategy....
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 16/09/2026
It was the hottest of summers 🔥 It was the meekest of responses 🏳️ Commission president von der Leyen delivers annual state of the European Union speech Read our initial #SOTEU comment: www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
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It was the hottest of summers, it was the meekest of responses - Greenpeace European Unit
The droughts and wildfires of this summer made it impossible for von der Leyen to ignore the impact of the climate crisis on people across Europe. But her speech does not change the fact that the EU C...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 15/09/2026
First one to strike out gets a lifetime supply of jobs and growth 🫡share your card and tag us tomorrow live during #SOTEU @greenpeace.eu
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 14/09/2026
Any direct benefits of mining are likely to be short-lived – but the destruction of Viiankiaapa will be permanent and irreversible This peatland is a jewel of European nature, home to many species and a vital carbon store We risk a dangerous precedent for ignoring nature protections
euobserver.com
Finland’s first licence to mine a Natura 2000 site would set a deadly precedent for EU nature protection
The Viiankiaapa peat bog in Finland faces permanent destruction for a short-term mining project. Even more worryingly, this could be a dangerous test case for the interests of mining for minerals over...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 14/09/2026
“The fossil fuel industry wants to hollow out the ban: fewer communications covered, fewer products and services in scope” These companies are responsible for climate-fueled death and destruction – they shouldn't be let advertise to boost their brands or sell more toxic products
desmog.com
Exclusive: Oil Industry Moves to Weaken Proposed Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban in France
Fossil fuel companies and broadcasters are working to dilute proposed world-first national restrictions on fossil fuel ads due to come into effect in France at the start of next year. Fifteen companie...
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 10/09/2026
The Viiankiaapa peat bog in Finland faces permanent destruction for a short-term mining project. Even more worryingly, this could be a dangerous test case for the interests of mining for minerals overriding the public interest to preserve nature.
euobserver.com
Finland’s first licence to mine a Natura 2000 site would set a deadly precedent for EU nature protection
The Viiankiaapa peat bog in Finland faces permanent destruction for a short-term mining project. Even more worryingly, this could be a dangerous test case for the interests of mining for minerals overriding the public interest to preserve nature.
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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"We cannot keep treating every prolonged wet period or drought as an isolated crisis" @ccacireland.bsky.social criticises Dept of Agriculture failures in cutting farm emissions & helping farmers adapt to climate change www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
Irish farming is unprepared for impact of climate change, says advisory council
Extreme weather events being treated as ‘isolated incidents’ rather than fundamental change, says Climate Change Advisory Council
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 04/09/2026
If companies make their money from selling oil, gas and coal – or energy/cars/flights running on those fuels – then their products are directly fueling the climate crisis The EU and national governments should ban their ads, the same way we do with tobacco products – science tells us the danger
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 03/09/2026
The EU's climate targets clearly put us on track for more catastrophic warming – more fires, droughts, storms and floods While national/international courts increasingly address governments’ climate obligations, EU courts still won't hear the substance of challenges to the EU’s inadequate targets
caneurope.org
EU Court rejects 2030 climate targets case despite uncontested claim that EU targets align with catastrophic 3°C warming. - CAN Europe
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) regret the General Court of the European Union’s decision to decline to consider the compatibility of the EU’s 2030 clima...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 02/09/2026
Every fraction of a degree of warming counts The sooner we stop climate pollution, the less the Earth will warm and the more death and disaster we can avoid “no good outcomes”? Some are certainly better than others Governments and the EU have the responsibility to aim for the best and save lives
insideclimatenews.org
Climate ‘Overshoot’ Is Coming—Are We Ready? - Inside Climate News
If global warming remains above 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new U.N. report says “there are no good outcomes.”
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The European Correspondent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Once drained and dried by agriculture, forestry, heat and drought, they can become highly flammable — and peat fires can smoulder underground for weeks. In Belgium, more than 3,000 hectares burned in a single weekend, destroying around 7% of this type of peatland in continental Europe.
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Europe's burning peat is taking centuries of carbon with it
From the end of July to mid-August, drought-fuelled wildfires tore through two of Europe's valuable peatlands, the Belgian High Fens (<i>Hautes Fagnes</i>)…
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 27/08/2026
Protecting bogs and peatlands is essential for fighting the climate crisis, and also for persevering the species of plants, animals, birds, insects and fungi that rely on them Europe's bogs must be rewetted and rewilded!
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 27/08/2026
In Denmark, nitrogen from intensive agriculture is choking the life out of coastal waters Today Greenpeace activists hung a banner from Copenhagen's biggest agribusiness lobby reading "HERE THE DEAD FJORDS BEGIN" Politicians: protect people's health and the environment over corporate profit!
Greenpeace Nordic activists peacefully protest at the headquarters of the lobbying organization Danish Agriculture & Food Council in Copenhagen, Denmark. The activists have climbed up and raised a red warning flag on the flagpole and hung a large banner over the façade with the message: “Here the dead fjords begin.” The protest draws a straight line from the lobbying organization to the dying fjords and waters that are under pressure from oxygen depletion.
Greenpeace argues that the organization has for years misled agriculture’s significant role in nitrogen pollution of the marine environment to avoid taking responsibility. Greenpeace is calling on politicians to cut the close ties with Danish Agriculture & Food Council and implement strict regulations to reduce nitrogen emissions from fertilizers and manure into the aquatic environment.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 27/08/2026
“Even if we would be able to kill all emissions tomorrow, we still would be having a number of very rough summers ahead” Adaptation to changes already happening can't come at the expense of stopping those changes by cutting emissions The companies responsible for climate chaos must pay for both
politico.eu
Europe must spend billions now or face mounting climate disaster costs, EU warns
A nightmare summer of fires, droughts and heatwaves should force governments to invest in climate proofing, says EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 27/08/2026
These escalating extreme heatwaves, storms and wildfires are not random chaos: they are instead the result of government inaction allowing fossil fuel companies and nature destroyers to profit over people
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What the ‘natural’ disasters of 2026 reveal about climate change - Greenpeace International
Record-shattering global temperatures across land and sea are the grim reality of climate crisis, and the reason we need an immediate transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energies.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 25/08/2026
"True figure likely to be much higher as it only covers about half of continent and does not include August totals"
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At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe’s back-to-back heatwaves
Figure only covers about half of continent and does not include August totals
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 17/08/2026
Heatwaves increase demand for electricity, as people use air conditioning and fridges have to work harder They also pose problems for different types of power generation, but not all equally The winning formula: wind, solar and storage working together – especially locally to minimise transmission
carbonbrief.org
Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves - Carbon Brief
Amid a slew of misleading claims, Carbon Brief explains how key power sources - nuclear, gas, solar, wind - cope with extreme heat.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 17/08/2026
Heat wave deaths, and record-breaking wildfires, in a country with a reputation for being cold and rainy
nytimes.com
Heat Deaths in a ‘Cold’ Country Are a Warning to the Rest of Europe
A June heat wave in Belgium and neighboring countries exposed a lethal lack of readiness. That’s a risk as another wave hits Europe.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 14/08/2026
The climate crisis is a direct threat to people's health, and the oil and gas companies responsible are still bringing in huge profits They must be made to pay for the damage they've caused
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London's heatwave 999 call-outs higher than in pandemic
In the June heatwave, the London Ambulance Service says it receives more than 53,000 emergency calls.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 23/07/2026
Our planet burns while they bank BILLIONS. As Trump’s War continues, Big Oil once again announced monster profits - while the world suffers from record-breaking heatwaves, unprecedented wildfires and extreme weather. The worst part? Their products help fuel the #climatecrisis we all experience!
Disclaimer: Images of CEO (top) used in this campaign are staged and doctored for illustrative purposes. Illustrations are created without the use of generative AI.

Below: Residents look on as flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility hit by Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, March 7, 2026. (Alireza Sotakbar/ISNA via AP)
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 23/07/2026
The ongoing EU debate over methane emissions is not about the EU's rules being a risk to energy supply It is about oil and gas companies who are driven by profit at any cost, trying to force Trump's chaotic energy policies on the rest of the world www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
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Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest
The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 22/07/2026
JBS, see you in court! @greenpeace.nl is taking the world’s biggest meat company to court to force them to hand over information about their secretive business policies and hold their billionaire owners accountable. Let’s fight back against unchecked corporate power. Not on our watch.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 20/07/2026
Using bogus arguments and scare tactics, the US and Big Oil have lobbied intensely against the EU methane regulation for months Today the European Commission has given them what they want: a free pass to pollute without penalty for another three years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EU Recommends Three-Year Delay to Methane Regulation Penalties
The European Union recommended that member states delay by three years penalties on energy importers that fail to comply with the bloc’s controversial methane emissions rules.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 20/07/2026
By pushing to weaken EU protections against pesticides, the self-described "voice of Europe's farmers" sells out the majority of its members to shield a small group of highly industrialised operators who are responsible for a disproportionate share of pollution www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 17/07/2026
An electrification target for the EU of 46% by 2040 is simply not ambitious enough, ESPECIALLY if it doesn’t ensure all that electricity is coming from renewables - the only way to make Europe fully resilient to geopolitical shocks www.euractiv.com/news/eu-sets...
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EU sets out first-ever electrification target: 46% by 2040 | Euractiv
The headline goal means roughly doubling the share of electricity in final energy use
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 16/07/2026
Not to point fingers but 👇 When you are fuelling tens of thousands of deaths in just ONE week, surely you must be held to account? It’s time to #MakePollutersPay 👉 act.gp/4usPymE
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 16/07/2026
In Europe and around the world, people are fighting to bring drinking water safety standards up to date with the latest science In this guest post, @amandalarsson.bsky.social takes you inside the global fight to protect our bodies and confront Big Ag: www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
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Cots, cows, and the fight for clean water - Greenpeace European Unit
The EU's limits for safe drinking water date from the era of black-and-white TV. Science has moved on. So why haven't our safety standards?
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There is going to be a rash of these kind of stories about Ireland’s attempt to pull a stroke. Whether they are or aren’t warranted depends entirely on what the Irish government does next. 🧵 (And yes, it’s burps not farts, and Greenpeace should know that)
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 16/07/2026
Yesterday, Brussels promised a new monument to the victims of the climate crisis Tomorrow, the EU announces reforms to its carbon market, allowing companies to pollute more Let this monument speak for all who unjustly paid with their lives for others' greed www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
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Brussels promises permanent monument for climate victims - Greenpeace European Unit
While heatwaves in Europe lead to thousands of excess deaths, and five years after hundreds lost their lives in devastating floods in Belgium and Germany, the Brussels regional government has promised...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 15/07/2026
Silent but violent, cows' and other farm animals' farts (agricultural methane) heat the planet 80 times more than CO2 over a 20-year time frame But Ireland wants the EU to give cow farts a free pass, raising serious questions about its claim to be a climate leader www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/c...
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Can Ireland Deliver as ‘Honest Broker’? Here’s What’s at Stake for Climate and Nature in EU Council Presidency
Environmental campaigners are urging Ireland to protect the public interest and resist industry pressure as the country takes up the presidency of the EU Council. The EU’s top agricultural polluter to...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 15/07/2026
Nitrogen pollution - mostly from animal farming - is out of control in Europe. It kills soils, chokes rivers, makes people sick & costs billions So it’s good that the EU is keeping its limits to how much fertiliser farmers can put on their fields, and hints at more measures in the worst-hit regions
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Commission sticks to strict fertilizer limit after nitrates review
by Agnes Rønberg · 20 minutes ago · 2 minutes read

The Commission plans no new relaxations of the general limit for spreading manure on fields. Instead, in a review of the Nitrates Directive published Wednesday, it urged countries to do more in areas hit by nitrate pollution.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 14/07/2026
Last day to sign and tell the EU to stop the trade deal with Israel Justice for Palestine!
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 14/07/2026
Ordinary people are hugely exposed to skyrocketing energy bills because their governments and the EU have developed serious dependencies on oil and gas The government response to the Hormuz energy crisis has been mostly to dig these dependencies deeper, so the next shock will hurt more
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€9.9 billion Hormuz energy crisis relief mostly supported fossil fuels - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels – Seven EU countries overwhelmingly deepened their fossil fuel dependence with their energy crisis response measures following the US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran, according to new res...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 13/07/2026
Only 2 days left to tell the EU to stop the trade agreement with Israel! Sign by 15 July If you're an EU citizen, you can tell the EU Commission to suspend the EU-Israel trade agreement because of human rights abuses – with over a million verified signatures, the EU Commission is obliged to respond
eci.ec.europa.eu
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 13/07/2026
This Wednesday is the "EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis" 10,000 more people in Europe have just been added to that sad toll European governments and the EU are still not doing enough to slow the climate crisis, or to protect vulnerable people from the disasters already coming
reuters.com
Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show
The vast majority — more ​than 9,000 — were among people aged 65 and above.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 09/07/2026
Methane heats the planet equally whether it comes from a cow or a pipeline (and heats it a LOT) Rebranding methane from farmed animals as "natural" just to avoid cutting the massive climate pollution from livestock is wishful thinking This is a scandalous move from the EU Commission
politico.eu
The EU’s paradigm shift on cows
Europe’s plan to support livestock farmers recasts a climate problem as a strategic asset.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 08/07/2026
The EU dropped a new livestock strategy yesterday It ignores the fact that scientists are finding links between nitrate pollution (animal 💩) and bowel cancer And it suggests the EU might give Big Ag what it wants and change the way it counts methane emissions www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
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EU livestock strategy ignores dangers from nitrates and methane - Greenpeace European Unit
The European Commission's new livestock strategy avoids the hard questions and fails to confront the destructive intensification in the EU livestock sector.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 08/07/2026
Exempt from transparency rules, the EU Commission's new so-called "Reality Checks" consultations are often attended only by lobbyists yet have shaped major deregulation proposals. Now the EU Ombudsman wants answers.
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EU watchdog questions commission’s secretive ‘Reality Checks’ with corporate lobbyists
Exempt from transparency rules, the EU Commission's new so-called "Reality Checks" consultations are often attended only by lobbyists yet have shaped major deregulation proposals. Now the EU Ombudsman wants answers.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 08/07/2026
The EU dropped a new livestock strategy yesterday It ignores the fact that scientists are finding links between nitrate pollution (animal 💩) and bowel cancer And it suggests the EU might give Big Ag what it wants and change the way it counts methane emissions www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
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EU livestock strategy ignores dangers from nitrates and methane - Greenpeace European Unit
The European Commission's new livestock strategy avoids the hard questions and fails to confront the destructive intensification in the EU livestock sector.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 07/07/2026
The oil-and-gas-powered climate crisis is about to bake Europe again, and could kill thousands more people The companies profiting from polluting the atmosphere share responsibility for these deaths
reuters.com
Europe may face 'more deadly weeks' as new heatwave builds, WHO warns
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that Europe could face “more deadly weeks” ahead, with another intense heatwave forming ​over the Atlantic.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 07/07/2026
“In Ukraine, security and energy have become the same thing” To prepare for the next winter, Ukrainians are racing to install heat pumps, solar panels and battery systems Windfarm construction workers sometimes spent up to 30% of their time in bomb shelters – and still delivered on time
euobserver.com
War is driving Ukraine’s green energy build-out, but lack of money is holding it back
Russia's attacks on Ukraine's gas and coal plants are driving Kyiv's shift to cleaner energy sources. But a lack of access to Europe's capital markets is severely restricting the country's transition.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 02/07/2026
"The environmental and human cost of war is accelerating at an alarming pace with the introduction of AI" "There’s a great deal of overlap between our data centre crisis and the destruction that war wreaks on the planet"
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Kelly Earley: As global militaries wage war and kill people, they are also killing the planet
The impact of war generally goes under the radar in our conversations about pollution and the climate crisis.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 01/07/2026
The EU has gleefully ripped up the progress made over the last decade to reduce climate pollution and to restore nature – so the climate crisis accelerates and people are less protected from the impacts The centre-right and far-right wanted a bonfire of green rules, well it's certainly burning now
theguardian.com
Europe heatwave shows need to reject climate denial ‘lies’, says EU green chief
Teresa Ribera blames ‘ideologically driven’ falsehoods, driven by those with vested interests in fossil fuels, for attacks on green policy
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