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    Trucks in parking lot
    Press release |

    Commission sends wrong signal to truck manufacturers

    The European Commission has presented its proposal for a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions from new trucks placed on the market by 2040. With this proposal, the European Commission is acknowledging the fact that trucks running on fossil fuels, especially diesel, can continue to drive on European roads after 2050.
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    Hemicycle European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    Plenary Flash - 13-16 February 2023

    On the agenda for the plenary session: Green Deal Industrial Plan, adequate minimum income, preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, an updated mandate for the special committee on foreign interference, an independent EU ethics body, CO2 emissions for cars and vans, and developing an EU cycling strategy.
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    Photo by American Public Power Association
    Picture of Solar Panels
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA Group call for special fund & boost for European green competitiveness

    The European Commission has presented its Green Deal Industrial Plan in response to the US Inflation Reduction Act. The Greens/EFA Group welcome the initiative for a European industrial plan and call for massive investments in the expansion of renewable energies and EU investment fund to ensure the unity of the EU internal market.
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    People walking in a train station / CC0 Christian Wiediger
    People walking in a train station / CC0 Christian Wiediger
    Opinion |

    The EU Minimum Income

    Sara Matthieu
    Opinion by Sara Matthieu
    An EU-wide minimum income would ensure every European can live a decent life. It would guarantee a living income for food, bills and more. What exactly is a minimum income? How could it benefit you? Find out more here.
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    Seascape with corals / Unsplash
    Seascape with corals / Unsplash
    Press release |

    Historic results for biodiversity in COP15

    After four years of discussion, more than 190 states finally adopted, Monday, December 19 in Canada, a historic agreement to tackle the gigantic challenge of the collapse of nature.
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    A common squirrel monkey in the Amazon forest in Colombia / Diego Guzman on Unspalsh
    Opinion |

    Net zero pledges and carbon removals - greenwashing the climate disaster

    We need real solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis. Net zero pledges and carbon removals divert attention from real action.
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    Smoking chimney © Michael Graber
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    Press release |

    Clear signal to industry to reduce emissions, Member States must urgently ramp up support for vulnerable households

    On Sunday, 18 December, the negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission reached an agreement on the revision of the European carbon market (ETS) and the creation of a new EU Social Climate Fund. Emissions trading as a climate policy instrument is a central building block of the Green Deal and the Fit f…
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    © European Union 2022 - Source : EP
    Kira Peter Hansen
    Press release |

    EU reaches agreement on closing the gender pay gap

    The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have reached an agreement on a new EU directive on Pay transparency. The directive aims to ensure equal pay in the EU by highlighting the pay gap and giving employees more rights when it comes to pay. Greens/EFA strongly welcome the outcome of the trilogue negotiations.
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    Policy Paper |

    Greens/EFA demands for COP15 of the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD)

    The COP15 in Montreal from 7 to 19 December must deliver a New Deal For Nature. Read our demands for the UN's Convention for Biological Diversity here.
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    Picture of heavy industry
    Press release |

    An important step towards green global trade

    Negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission reached an agreement on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).