We've taken a first look at the mission letters of a number of Commissioners-designate in
@vonderleyen
's new
@EU_Commission
.
🧵Here comes a mega thread on what we...
🟢 Loved to see!
🟠 Think needs questioning at the hearings
🔴 Is a red line for
@CANEurope
🚨TODAY we
@GretaThunberg
& countless others ask our governments to
#ExitECT
. 🇵🇱is leaving &🇪🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱may follow. There's a real chance we get the EU to withdraw & score a win against
#ClimateChange
.
Make it happen: email your ministers TODAY!
👉
#NoECT
The
@EU_Commission
must stop hiding behind distant targets & commit to bold climate action now.
We urgently need to agree to cut emissions by 65% by 2030.
#ParisAgreement
The world needs the EU to lead the way: the new 2030 target proposal by June & agreed well before
#COP26
!
📣BREAKING: families impacted by climate change take the
#EU
to court to demand better
#climate
protection 🌍 They urge the EU to ramp up its 2030 climate target.
All you need to know about
#PeoplesClimateCase
here:
BREAKING📣MEPs just called to increase the EU's 2030 target to 55% in the
@Europarl_EN
position for
#COP24
.
Now the EU must commit to a much higher climate target at the all important
#COP24
summit. Check our press release here:
Young Kenyan climate activist
@lizwathuti
met Members of European Parliament to discuss key priorities for
#COP27
.
She shared devastating losses faced by frontline communities caused by the climate crisis, such as the prolonged drought across the Horn of Africa.
#LossAndDamage
Good news📣: in response to climate protests, ministers from Austria🇦🇹, Ireland🇮🇪, Lithuania🇱🇹 and Luxembourg🇱🇺 called upon the EU to consider going for 100%
#renewables
Spain🇪🇸 is on board too. Who's next?
#ClimateNeutralEU
#TTE
Ministers' letter:
People are marching after the
#PeoplesPlenary
to join thousands of people outside to protest against unfair and not inclusive
@COP26
and it's decisions.
BREAKING 📢 Today, hundreds of European cities, regions, businesses, NGOs, youth and faith groups join forces to call for urgent
#ClimateAction
. 🌡️🌍
Will the current and future EU decision makers
#Stand4Climate
?
Check our Climate Action Call here:
🆘
#COP28
president claims there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels. 🆘
Rejecting climate science won't cut it at
#COP28
. 🚫
The
@IPCC_CH
is crystal clear: We MUST phase out ALL fossil fuels to cap temperature rise at 1.5°C❗️
📢 101 organisations call today on EU Ministers to ensure the next
#EUbudget
is in line with the EU climate objectives and consistent with the
#ParisAgreement
across all programmes.
#MFF
We are on the streets today to
#EndFossilFuels
! ✊
Our message is loud and clear 👇
We call on the upcoming Climate Commissioner to:
➡️ Set ambitious EU climate & energy targets for 2040
➡️ Free Europe from fossil gas lock-in
➡️
#EndFossilGas
by 2035
🎉 Major VICTORY for Climate: in the landmark
#LAffaireDuSi
ècle, the Court ordered the French State to step up its climate action.
France is now the 3rd EU Member State that judged to fail in protecting citizens from the climate crisis.
More here 👉
⏰Europe, wake up!⏰
As world leaders gather for
#COP24
, we urge the EU to act upon the latest science and commit to massively increase its emission cuts by 2030 in line with
#1o5C
.
More in the video👇 and here:
BREAKING: Ministers of France🇫🇷, Germany🇩🇪, the Netherlands🇳🇱, Sweden🇸🇪, Finland🇫🇮, Portugal🇵🇹 & Luxembourg🇱🇺 formed a coalition for
#climate
ambition and called for aligning EU
#climate
policies with the
#ParisAgreement
#2050pathways
GREAT NEWS for the climate! 🎉
@EU_Commission
finally backs a coordinated withdrawal from the
#EnergyCharterTreaty
that protects fossil fuel industries, calling it…
U
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A
V
O
I
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A
B
L
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European countries must:
👉Approve EU leaving
#ECT
👉Withdraw from
#ECT
at national level
Dear representatives of 447 million people in the EU
The
@Europarl_EN
vote on Wednesday is your opportunity to SAVE LIVES by SAVING NATURE
By not rejecting the
#NatureRestorationLaw
, you can help avert a climate and biodiversity crises
#RestoreNature
Against climate change, we have no magical vaccine but we have a solution: PREVENTION
Best way to prevent dramatic climate change is to aim at 65% emission cuts for 2030 in the EU.
The higher the 2030 climate target, the higher the social and economic benefits.
#EUClimateLaw
The Climate Change Performance Index
#CCPI2019
shows that European countries fail to take adequate
#climateaction
to limit temperature rise to
#1o5C
.
Countries must urgently increase their targets and scale up action to implement them.
Pacific people cannot survive in what will be a >1.5°C world.
Today, the Pacific youth is asking their leaders to take the
#ClimateEmergency
to the International Court of Justice to seek for
#ClimateJustice
.
Sign the petition to support them:
#FossilFuelSubsidiesAwards
winners are revealed 👏
🇵🇹 wins gold for handing out a license to drill to oil and gas companies.
🇵🇱 ranks second for its persistent financial support to coal-power plants.
🇪🇸 takes third place on the podium for subsidising coal instead of solar.
BREAKING: European businesses, trade unions, local authorities and NGOs call upon the
@EU_Commission
to increase the EU's 2030 climate target in the first 100 days in office.
Otherwise,
#EuropeanGreenDeal
will miss the
#ParisAgreement
deadline.
More here:
Who are 🛡️Protectors, 🐌Procrastinators and 🦖Prehistoric Thinkers at
@Europarl_EN
?
Our new in-depth EP Scoreboard reveals that only a minority of 2019-2024 MEPs acted as Protectors of the Green Deal.
Check out our new interactive tool👇
#votefutureEU
Climate activists detained in Belarus must be released IMMEDIATELY!
We are concerned for their and all Belarusian activists’ safety.
The EU must urgently apply sanctions to put an end to the violent crackdown in Belarus
MORE HERE 👉
🥳 IT'S HAPPENING! The EU just made the final decision to adopt the EU exit from the climate-wrecking
#EnergyCharterTreaty
!
🏆 Here’s why this is a huge victory for climate justice campaigners across Europe👇
#ExitECT
#StopISDS
📢Great news! Today
@Europarl_EN
calls for significantly more financial support to tackle climate change than the current level, and for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies in the future
#EUbudget
.
@EU_Commission
must be all ears!
#MFF
The Nature Restoration Law blockbuster is back! 💥
The final text of this long-awaited law will be decided this Thursday by
@Europarl_EN
,
@EU_Commission
&
@EUCouncil
.
We need a strong & fit-for-purpose law to save Europe's citizens, economy & environment!
#RestoreNature
🗣️ We demand the end of injustices, and urgent response from governments to climate crisis and other multiple linked challenges.
✊🏾 We bring movements together and let governments and leaders know that we are united in the same cause 🌏
🌏 Join the
#PeoplesPlenaryCOP27
! ✊🏾
The
@Europarl_EN
has the power to take the path that will save us from heading straight for climate disaster.
MEPs must raise the
#EU2030
emission reduction goal to the only level compatible with science: 65%
Listen to science, protect the citizens you represent.
#EUClimateLaw
🚨BREAKING🚨
Oil company Rockhopper just won its case against Italy under the
#EnergyCharterTreaty
. Italy to pay €250 million from taxpayers’ money for taking essential
#ClimateAction
by banning
#oil
&
#gas
drilling off its coast.
#ExitECT
NOW!
🔎👇
A must-read before voting in the
#EUelections2019
! Check out who acts as Defender, Delayer or Dinosaur on climate change in our ranking of political groups in
@Europarl_EN
▶️
⏱️Timing is everything.
#EUGreenDeal
must propose a greatly increased 2030 climate target by March 2020 latest to give enough time for EU governments to approve it by the
#COP26
deadline in November.
🔥Any delay undermines the
#ParisAgreement
!
👉
Good news📣today
@Europarl_EN
, voting on
#ClimateNeutralEU
strategy, called for:
- achieving net 0 emissions asap and by 2050 at the latest;
- increasing the EU’s 2030 climate target to 55%.
MEPs heard the youth's call for action 💪💪💪
#ClimateStrike
What’s the state of the EU? 🇪🇺
Burning, in flames. 🔥
Global boiling is here and fossil fuels are to blame. 🚫
Today we are in Strasbourg to say: Stop Burning Gas! 👇
#SOTEU
We stand in solidarity with young people from all over the world joining the
#ClimateStrike
to demand stronger action on climate change from their governments.
Leaders simply cannot ignore their powerful call 🌍🌡️
#FridaysForFuture
Our statement:
This weekend, hundreds of thousands of people will take to the streets with the demand to
#EndFossilFuels
. ✊
We call on the upcoming Climate Commissioner to 👇
➡️ Set ambitious EU climate & energy targets for 2040
➡️ Free Europe from fossil gas lock-in
➡️
#EndFossilGas
by 2035
📢 Today at
#COP28
, governments might announce the final outcome.
❗️ We remind negotiators that our core objective is:
✊ A Fast. Fair. Full. and Funded. phase out of fossil fuels.
New report launched today by
@CANEurope
flags main issues in 24 draft National Energy and Climate Plans
#EUNECP
: Time to step up the clean energy transition and stop support to fossil fuels!
👉Read it here:
👏Well done
@Europarl_EN
❗️
With your vote in favour of an
#EU2030
climate target of 60% emission cuts, you are inching closer to science, offering citizens a more sustainable future.
Now this result must be taken up by EU leaders in
#EUCO
.
Our comment 👇
Final hours at
#COP25
and it is still failing to:
📈 increase ambition
📢avoid loopholes
🗣️protect human& indigenous rights& environmental integrity.
People are taking the power💪and will convene an Alternate People's Closing Plenary today.
Watch this thread for more info👇
Today is the day! Climate experts and activists from across Europe came together for
#CANAssembly
to ensure that in 2020 EU leaders respond to the public's demand for change
Breaking 📣 Our new ranking shows that EU countries are OFF TARGET⚽ in fighting climate change. Europe needs to raise its game and
#stepup2018
climate action in line with
#ParisAgreement
goals!
Who is bad, who is worse? Read the report here:
#WorldCup
📢 Youth from all over the world is sending a clear message to leaders who have gathered at the
#NewFinancingPact
Summit.
They want
#LossAndDamageFinanceNow
!
This summit sends a strong message to raise ambition.
Follow the thread! 🧵⬇
📣Great news! 📣
Spain will join a coalition of member states calling for higher EU climate targets in line with the
#ParisAgreement
.
“We need Europe to move towards a new energy model.” says Teresa Ribera, newly-appointed minister ⛅🌤️☀️
Our Climate Ambition Project Coordinator,
@Zanna_Vanr
has been denied entry to Poland to attend the UN climate summit COP24 for being one of the climate heros to organise
#ClaimtheClimate
march. That is unacceptable! See our press release:
Greta Thunberg says: "we need to take actions when we still have time" during her press conference in the
@Europarl_EN
. 📢
The
#EU
's existing climate target and policies do not live up to the Paris Agreement goals.
Now is the time to hear the youth and step up climate action.🌍
Businesses, local authorities and NGOs urge members of
@Europarl_EN
voting on future
#CohesionPolicy
funding to exclude fossil fuel support and help EU’s regions leapfrog fossil fuel use to renewable energy and energy savings.
#EUBudget4Climate
📨
The upcoming vote in European Parliament on the
#NatureRestorationLaw
is no ordinary vote
It's a vote for nature itself, a vote for the survival of our citizens, a vote for our economy, our climate, our future🌍
The time is NOW⌛️
#RestoreNature
BREAKING: 📢European cities, businesses, investors and NGOs join forces for
#ClimateAction
They call upon EU leaders to agree on:
🌍Substantially increased
#2030ClimateTarget
🌲additional action to remove emissions through nature based solutions.
More :
✊ There's no climate justice without
#HumanRights
! CSOs across constituencies are standing together to make sure we are being heard!
#fairfor1point5
#COP27
The European Parliament declares
#ClimateEmergency
🔥🌍
This needs to be followed by emergency action!
Now
@Europarl_EN
needs to push for an increase of the 2030 climate target to at least 65% emission cuts.
📨 On EU
#OvershootDay
, 318 civil society organisations have written to EU leaders to urge them to prioritise the climate, nature and pollution crises.
Read more:
#VoteFutureEU
Every day is
#AprilFools
Day when companies’
#greenwashing
attempts spread misleading marketing and lobbying around
#fossilgas
.
Today climate defenders in 16 European cities have hacked ads from the gas industry (😜) to show that
#CleanGasIsADirtyLie
⚡️Strong message by the
@HACoalition
(including the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Maldives, Palau, Marshall Islands...) calling for a
#fossilfuels
phase out, 1.5 limit and
#LossAndDamage
fund.
➡️In the last hours of
#COP27
, countries should align for a successful outcome
We need to defend 1,5 alive and a fund for loss and damages.
If we don't defend 1,5 & fossil fuels phase out, we would accept more catastrophes.
La High Ambition Coalition vient de sortir 8 points qu'elle veut de la
#COP27
#HighAmbitionCoalition
This Friday, youth will strike in Brussels to
#StopEUMercosur
trade agreement and save the
#Amazonas
!
If European leaders are serious about stopping Amazon deforestation, they must put the EU-Mercosur agreement on ice!
Retweet and join us on Friday:
Great news from the European Parliament! MEPs voted in favour of reducing
#EU
emissions to net zero by 2050 at the latest and robust rules for
#CleanEnergyEU
governance.
GREAT NEWS📣
Belgium🇧🇪, Denmark🇩🇰, Estonia🇪🇪, Finland🇫🇮, France🇫🇷, Germany🇩🇪, Italy🇮🇹, Luxembourg🇱🇺, the Netherlands🇳🇱, Portugal🇵🇹, Slovenia🇸🇮, Spain🇪🇸, Sweden🇸🇪 and the UK🇬🇧 call for strong action to limit warming to
#1o5C
EU is failing to protect citizens from the
#ClimateCrisis
and courts must hold them accountable.
Today, plaintiffs of the
#PeoplesClimateCase
appeal to the European Court of Justice to search for
#ClimateJustice
Read more:
Adding nuclear and gas to the
#EUTaxonomy
certainly won't bring us any closer to a greener 🇪🇺 and to more sustainable energy resources☣️
Let's work together to keep the
#EUGreenDeal
alive and stop
#StopFakeGreen
❌Gas and Nuclear are not green❌
Von der Leyen’s taxonomy could bury Europe’s Green Deal. Today we came together to tell
@vonderleyen
,
@EmmanuelMacron
and
@OlafScholz
that that we will keep fighting for a 100% clean Europe for future generations. Join us to
#StopFakeGreen
NEWS ALERT! CAN Europe is intervening in the
#PeoplesClimateCase
to remind the EU to live up to its Paris Agreement responsibilities to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C. Check our press release:
The mayors of ten major European cities - including Paris, London, Milan and Barcelona - urge the EU to set the
#1o5C
and net-zero emissions goals of the
#ParisAgreement
as objectives of the new
#EU2050
climate strategy
#stepup2018
What a way to end the week🥳
@EU_Commission
has confirmed it wants to leave the disastrous
#EnergyCharterTreaty
that protects the interests of fossil fuel industries, not people✊
Like a fossil, it is time to leave this treaty in the past and for EU Member States to
#ExitECT
And it's confirmed! the
@EU_Commission
wants to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (
#ECT
)⛽️
"As it stands, this unmodernised treaty is not in line with the EU's energy and climate goals, or the EU's investment policies"
Next steps explained here:
@CarbonPulse
BREAKING: EU environment ministers will recognize the need to keep temperature rise to
#1o5C
when they meet on 9 October, in response to the much-awaited, landmark
#IPCC
report.
They also need to commit to increase the EU's targets in line with
#1o5C
goal!
We are in a turning point for the
#EnergyTransition
in the 🇪🇺, after the invasion of Ukraine.
CAN Europe, representing +1,700 NGOs in Europe, releases its 8 recommendations for an energy transition that is:
🤝Secure
💡Accelerated
🌎Paris compatible
➡️
80% of the Amazon’s deforestation is directly connected to beef 🐄 production - and the EU-Mercosur agreement would further exacerbate this.
Deforestation is a disaster for
the climate
biodiversity
indigenous peoples
#StopEUMercosur
👉
A group of young people, worried about the climate crisis are standing up for their future. ✊
Follow the story of 6⃣ Portuguese heroes who have taken 32 European countries to court to push them to act on climate change and protect their rights.
#climatetrials
#WeAreWatching
Great news! 📣Yesterday at
#EUCO
, EU leaders called upon
@EU_Commission
to urgently develop a new EU strategy on how to implement the
#ParisAgreement
. This will set the wheels in motion for raising the EU's
#climate
target 👏👏👏
Our reaction:
Calculation tricks won’t win the fight against the
#climatecrisis
.
EU leaders at
#EUCO
must adopt an ambitious, real
#EU2030
emission reduction target, and NOT rely on nature to make up for the lack of climate ambition.
To
#Fightfor1Point5
🇪🇺 needs to aim at at least 65% cuts.
The future is green
#nuclear
power and
#fossilgas
are not.
Dear
@OlafScholz
, make it clear to the 🇪🇺 Commission: 🇩🇪 does not support greenwashing of past technologies in the
#taxonomy
.
129 NGOs from all over Europe count on you!
👉
Expose the financial support for dirty energy in your country by voting for the worst fossil fuel subsidies in the 2018 European
#FossilFuelSubsidiesAwards
! Show 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇪🇸🇳🇴🇦🇹🇧🇬🇵🇱 you’re not happy with where they’re putting your money.
📣Businesses, local governments, trade unions and NGOs urge leaders meeting for
#EUCO
this week to respond to the calls from the youth taking part in the
#ClimateStrike
and speed up the transition to
#ClimateNeutralEU
Read our joint letter here:
The
@EU_Commission
must immediately match words to urgent climate action.
EU must agree on a substantial increase of its 2030 climate target quickly to build momentum by
#COP26
.
This is also what 12 🇪🇺 member states demand.
Share our PR:
#EUClimateLaw
📢Scientists & the youth call on leaders to stop delaying climate action.
At
#EUCO
🇪🇺countries must agree
#ClimateNeutralEU
& a substantial increase of the EU’s 2030 climate target.
#EUbudget4climate
must play a role in filling the green investment gaps.