EEB input to the EU Environment Council Meeting, Brussels, 17 March 2022

The European Environmental Bureau share its views with EU Environmental Ministers on the issues on the agenda of the forthcoming EU Environment Council, including on how a range of items on the agenda are ever more important in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine – notably making the Fit for 55 package even more important given the multiple benefits of being fossil-fuel independent. Furthermore, we wish to flag that some actors are instrumentalizing concerns about the war to undermine the European Green Deal – as can be seen with attacks on the Emissions Trading System (ETS), also on the Farm to Fork Strategy and the Biodiversity Strategy using arguments of food security concerns.