Fossil Free Europe

Fossil Free Europe Delivering a just transition to a 100% renewable, no nuclear, super energy-efficient, zero-fossil-fuel Europe by 2030

National energy plans fail on socially fair energy transformation

18 June 2019

Today’s European Commission analysis of Member States’ draft ten-year plans for climate and energy confirms a big climate fail, according to Friends of the Earth Europe. The EU's 2030 renewables and energy efficiency targets — already insufficient — will be missed if Member States do not improve their plans.

14 June 2019

EIB must stop funding fossil fuels - 70 civil society groups

Ahead of a meeting of the EU bank’s Governors in Luxembourg, 70 civil society organisations, think tanks and academics across Europe have called for a fossil-free European Investment Bank (EIB) in a joint statement released today.

As EU Finance Ministers gather in Luxembourg as Governors of the EIB to discuss this year’s priorities for the bank of the European Union.

28 May 2019

EU elections: Europe needs urgent and massive transformation

New MEPs have an awesome responsibility - no less than the future of the planet

by Jagoda Mu

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The world is on track to global warming in excess of 3˚C, yet the commitments made by political leaders fall far short of what is needed to protect vulnerable and poor people across the world. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Friends of the Earth Europe is working to create the much-needed, fair and urgent transition to a fossil fuel free Europe by 2030. This means dismantling the fossil fuel system and creating the just, clean energy future that people want and need.

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20 Feb 2019

Power to the people: upholding the right to clean, affordable energy for all

14 Feb 2019

Unleashing the power of community renewable energy

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- Climate justice
  Genuine, just solutions to climate change
- Energy savings
  Less is more: reducing energy consumption for a safer planet and better homes
- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Fossil Free Europe
  Delivering a just transition to a 100% renewable, no nuclear, super energy-efficient, zero-fossil-fuel Europe by 2030
- Renewable energy
  Creating a future powered by clean, fossil-free, community owned energy

- Corporate accountability
  Making multinational companies accountable for harm they cause anywhere in the world
- Corporate capture
  When EU and international policy-making is overly influenced by business and interest groups
- Democratic Europe
  Our rights, and how we can shape society
- Deregulation
  The weakening of vital protections to please big business
- Trade
  EU trade and investment policy should start to put people before profit

- Agriculture
  Food and farming in Europe and its global impacts
- GMOs
  Genetically modified crops and organisms
- Nature
  Standing up for our right to nature
- Trade
  EU trade and investment policy should start to put people before profit

- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Materials and waste
  Rethinking plastic, and reducing, reusing and recycling resources
- Resource justice
  Europe’s consumption of land, materials, water and carbon

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