• Climate Change

EU Commits to More Emissions Cuts on Paris Agreement Anniversary

• climate change
• EU
• Paris Agreement
• Paris Climate Agreement

by Ashira Morris, ODP Contributing Writer The night before the UN’s Climate Ambition Summit 2020 on Saturday, the European Union set a new ambitious target of cutting emissions by 55 percent compared to 1990 levels over the next decade. The updated target comes just a year after the 27-country bloc set its goal at reducing […]

• Green Finance
• Politics

European Commission Agrees To Green Deal Stimulus, But Is It Green Enough?

• #GreenDeal
• conservation
• EU
• Europe
• European Commission
• Greta Thunberg

The Guardian and S&P Global reported that after days of haggling, the European Commission settled on an $864 billion USD recovery fund for the next 3 years, plus a five year budget with a target of spending 30% of that to support the EU’s climate commitments.  

Why This Matters:  Activist leader Greta Thunberg immediately criticized the deal as not being good enough.

• Land

EU Commits to Protecting 30% of Nature by 2030

• #CampaignforNature
• 30 by 30
• EU

Yesterday the European Commission announced that it will commit to protecting 30% of the EU’s land and oceans by 2030 (30 by 30) as part of the European Green Deal. In addition to this declaration, the EU will also plant 3 billion trees by 2030 and cut chemical pesticide use by 50% and fertilizer use […]

• Energy

Europe Pushes for Green Stimulus, Will Congressional Republicans Finally See the Light?

• Congress
• EU
• Germany
• Green Stimulus
• Republicans
• UK

Speaking ahead of a virtual meeting of 30 nations, Germany and Britain’s environment ministers said Monday that efforts to revive the global economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic must ensure a ‘green recovery’ that helps the world tackle climate change, according to AP. The ministers emphasized the importance of economic recovery programs to invest […]

• Sustainability

EU “Right to Repair” Plan Tackles Source of E-Waste

• electronics
• EU

Consumers in the European Union will soon have the ability to have better access to more sustainable electronics. Under a new initiative unveiled by the European Commission, consumers will have an automatic right to have their devices repaired rather than throw them away under a new initiative unveiled by the European Commission today. As Forbes […]

• Climate Change

The European Investment Bank Joins the Fight Against Climate Change

• climate change
• EIB
• EU
• Paris Agreement

By 2021, the European Investment Bank has stated that it will no longer offer loans to fossil fuel companies. As part of a strategy to better use its money to fight climate change, the bank will also increase its investments in clean energy. Cracking Down: This new policy came at an important moment just record-breaking […]