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    25 June 2021

    New EU farm policy will worsen environmental crises for years

    Weak rules will maintain support for harmful farming practices   25 June 2021, Brussels – Europe will continue major funding of harmful intensive farming practices until […]
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    1 July 2021

    Portuguese and Slovenian presidencies: Environmental assessment and 10 green tests

    Despite a major breakthrough on chemicals policy, the European Union made lacklustre progress towards a robust green transition during the Portuguese presidency, a comprehensive assessment reveals. […]
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    6 July 2021

    Reusable packaging can bring significant environmental and economic benefits by 2030, report finds

    New report shows a reusable packaging target of 50% in key sectors could drastically reduce CO2 emissions, water consumption and waste.   A reusable packaging target […]
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    9 July 2021

    Higher bills for millions as EU lets lighting firms milk old technology

    Wasteful toxic lamps treated as “cash engine” by Signify, despite green claims EU ignored € billions in consumer losses and its own legal benchmarks 9 July […]
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    14 July 2021

    EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ is unfit and unfair

    The European Commission is missing another historic opportunity to phase out fossil fuels in the ‘Fit for 55’ package, leaving the door open for coal, gas […]
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    17 August 2021

    Four years of unnecessary pollution: EU governments fail to curb emissions from most toxic plants

    PRESS BRIEFING Most lignite plants in the EU have waited until the very last minute to implement pollution-control technologies that were available and economically viable already […]
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    22 September 2021

    Long-awaited update to World Health Organisation Global Air Quality Guidelines published

    The World Health Organisation has today published a long-awaited update to its Global Air Quality Guidelines, the first such update since 2005 The World Health Organisation […]
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    5 October 2021

    ‘Green mining’ is a myth: EU must slash resource consumption by two-thirds – new study

    PRESS RELEASE New analysis suggests the EU must ditch plans under its European Green Deal to increase mining and set hard limits to the natural resources […]
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    25 October 2021

    Wasteful destruction of unsold goods must be banned, NGOs urge the EU

    Belgian, French and German initiatives to end product destruction must be upscaled at the single-market level Brussels, 25 October 2021 – The deliberate destruction and disposal […]
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    15 November 2021

    Right to clean air: European Commission refers Portugal to Court of Justice for breaching safe levels of nitrogen dioxide

    The European Commission has referred Portugal to the Court of Justice of the European Union for the Member State’s poor air quality resulting from nitrogen dioxide […]
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    17 November 2021

    MEPs vote on Critical Raw Materials: what to watch

    PRESS BRIEFING Brussels, 17 November 2021 – Next week, the European Parliament will vote on their opinion on the European Commission’s Critical Raw Materials Action Plan. […]
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    17 November 2021

    EU Waste Shipment Regulation falls short of fixing Europe’s waste export crisis

    NGOs demand a stronger ban on waste exports, a better alignment with waste treatment hierarchy and fairer shipments for reuse Brussels, 17 November 2021 – The […]
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