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    News |

    Plant it and make it grow

    Most of the food we eat comes from seeds. Seed diversity is the basis of our food chain and our food security depends on it. Decreasing it impacts on the choice of the food we eat, and local fruits, vegetables and cereals can disappear from our fields and plates. Seeds are also humanity's oldest ...
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    EU food rules and seeds

    The European Commission today presented its food safety package, with proposals for new EU rules in a number of areas, including for seeds and plant reproductive products. The Greens expressed concern that the proposals on seeds would play into the hands of the agro-chemical industry and threaten se...
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    Brussels Agenda

    Greens/EFA priorities for the week include Hungary and democratic freedoms, EU funding for the most deprived, Weak targets for van emissions, New seeds regulation endangers genetic diversity, More transparent bank charging, Alternative responses to the ecological, economic and social crises, Energising Europe and Spain sustainably
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    Press release |

    Bee decline/neonicotinoid ban

    Crucial proposals from the European Commission to suspend the use of neonicotinoid insecticides - due to their damaging impact on bee populations - were today upheld after a vote by EU member states. The outcome of the vote (1) in the Comitology Appeal Committee will enable the proposed suspension t...
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    Press release |

    Bee decline

    Crucial proposals from the European Commission to suspend the use of 3 specific neonicotinoid insecticides - due to their damaging impact on bee populations - are again set to be voted on by EU member states on Monday (29 April), after an inconclusive vote last month (1). There are concerns that key...
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    Video |

    The Belo Monte Dam Project

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    Press release |

    Car CO2 emissions/fuel efficiency

    The European Parliament's environment committee today voted on legislative proposals for implementing EU rules on CO2 emissions limits for vehicles for the year 2020 (1). The Greens welcomed the confirmation of the 2020 limit and the call for new EU limits for 2025 but expressed regret that MEPs fai...
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    News |

    The Belo Monte Dam Project

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    Climate policy/emissions trading

    In the context of today's informal council of EU environment ministers in Dublin and following last week's vote in the European Parliament on the EU's emissions trading scheme, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms stated: "EU climate policy is at crisis point following last week's chaotic EP v...
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    Event |

    Rescuing EU climate policy and emissions trading

    The failure of the European Parliament to approve a stopgap measure aimed at preventing the collapse of the emissions trading scheme, the EU's flagship climate policy instrument, has pushed EU climate change policy to crisis point. Bold political steps now are needed from EU governments and the European Commission to rescue EU climate pol…