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    Hemicycle European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    Plenary Flash - 16-19 January 2023

    On the agenda for the plenary session: Election of a new Vice-President of the Parliament, the terrorist threat posed by far-right extremist networks, the storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions, executions of protesters in Iran, Uber lobbying practices in the EU, food price inflation debate, and Waste Shipment Regulation.
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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
    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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    © Picture credits: Michael Held
    Small scale fisheries
    Study |

    Income diversification opportunities and access to EU funding for small-scale fishers in the EU

    The small-scale fisheries (SSF) sector accounts for about 63% of the vessels in the EU commercial fleet, representing a key driver for the development of the blue economy of coastal communities. Despite its relevance for coastal communities, there is a lack of data on SSF which hampers an understanding of the real trends and socio-economi…
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    Tenerife blue chaffinch Fringilla teydea / Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble / Flickr CC BY 2.0
    Tenerife blue chaffinch Fringilla teydea / Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble / Flickr CC BY 2.0
    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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    European Pine Marten / Unsplash
    European Pine Marten / Unsplash
    Opinion |

    COP15 - A Paris Moment for Biodiversity?

    Ville Niinistö Jutta Paulus Caroline Roose
    Opinion by Ville Niinistö & Jutta Paulus & Caroline Roose
    COP15: Why the UN's biodiversity conference is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to advance the protection and restoration of nature worldwide.
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    Corn field / CC0 glenn-carstens-peters
    Event |

    GMO-free Europe Event 2022

    Join the 2022 edition of the GMO-free Europe Event, hosted in the European Parliament by the Greens/EFA Group. We will look at the issue of the new Genetically Modified Organisms and the new legislation on new genomic techniques, planned for next year, from a scientific, economic, and political perspective.
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    Event |

    20 years after the Prestige accident: analysis of maritime safety in Europe

    This event will look at the environmental and economic impact & social reaction to the “Prestige” oil spill accident on the Galician coast, other cases of marine pollution in Europe and propose a European analysis.
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    Photo by James Baltz on Unsplash
    Tractor spreading fertiliser
    Press release |

    Ramping up and subsidising production of fertilisers will not solve the crisis

    The Commission has published their Communication on Ensuring availability and affordability of fertilisers. However, it falls short and the Greens/EFA group is especially concerned with messages given to Member States to subsidise the fertiliser industry, and indirectly subsidising the Russian gas that fuels it.
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    @Knut Sturm
    Forest near Lübeck/Germany
    Event |

    Ecological forestry in Europe

    Most European forests are in bad shape, making them easy prey for pests, diseases and fires. To restore the health of our timber producing forests, we need to manage them in a way that works with nature, not against it. Join us to hear practitioners’ experiences and discuss what it will take to mainstream ecological forestry in Europe.