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Greenpeace's EU advocacy team in Brussels. Working on climate, energy, farming, forests, trade, pollution, lobby transparency, democracy and more www.greenpeace.eu
Our planet burns while they bank BILLIONS. As Trump’s War continues, Big Oil once again announced monster profits - while the world suffers from record-breaking heatwaves, unprecedented wildfires and extreme weather. The worst part? Their products help fuel the #climatecrisis we all experience!
The ongoing EU debate over methane emissions is not about the EU's rules being a risk to energy supply It is about oil and gas companies who are driven by profit at any cost, trying to force Trump's chaotic energy policies on the rest of the world www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest
The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.
nytimes.com
JBS, see you in court! @greenpeace.nl is taking the world’s biggest meat company to court to force them to hand over information about their secretive business policies and hold their billionaire owners accountable. Let’s fight back against unchecked corporate power. Not on our watch.
Using bogus arguments and scare tactics, the US and Big Oil have lobbied intensely against the EU methane regulation for months Today the European Commission has given them what they want: a free pass to pollute without penalty for another three years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EU Recommends Three-Year Delay to Methane Regulation Penalties
The European Union recommended that member states delay by three years penalties on energy importers that fail to comply with the bloc’s controversial methane emissions rules.
bloomberg.com
By pushing to weaken EU protections against pesticides, the self-described "voice of Europe's farmers" sells out the majority of its members to shield a small group of highly industrialised operators who are responsible for a disproportionate share of pollution www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
theguardian.com
An electrification target for the EU of 46% by 2040 is simply not ambitious enough, ESPECIALLY if it doesn’t ensure all that electricity is coming from renewables - the only way to make Europe fully resilient to geopolitical shocks www.euractiv.com/news/eu-sets...
EU sets out first-ever electrification target: 46% by 2040 | Euractiv
The headline goal means roughly doubling the share of electricity in final energy use
euractiv.com
Not to point fingers but 👇 When you are fuelling tens of thousands of deaths in just ONE week, surely you must be held to account? It’s time to #MakePollutersPay 👉 act.gp/4usPymE
In Europe and around the world, people are fighting to bring drinking water safety standards up to date with the latest science In this guest post, @amandalarsson.bsky.social takes you inside the global fight to protect our bodies and confront Big Ag: www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
Cots, cows, and the fight for clean water - Greenpeace European Unit
The EU's limits for safe drinking water date from the era of black-and-white TV. Science has moved on. So why haven't our safety standards?
greenpeace.org
There is going to be a rash of these kind of stories about Ireland’s attempt to pull a stroke. Whether they are or aren’t warranted depends entirely on what the Irish government does next. 🧵 (And yes, it’s burps not farts, and Greenpeace should know that)
Greenpeace EU@greenpeace.eu · 3w agoSilent but violent, cows' and other farm animals' farts (agricultural methane) heat the planet 80 times more than CO2 over a 20-year time frame But Ireland wants the EU to give cow farts a free pass, raising serious questions about its claim to be a climate leader www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/c...
Yesterday, Brussels promised a new monument to the victims of the climate crisis Tomorrow, the EU announces reforms to its carbon market, allowing companies to pollute more Let this monument speak for all who unjustly paid with their lives for others' greed www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
Brussels promises permanent monument for climate victims - Greenpeace European Unit
While heatwaves in Europe lead to thousands of excess deaths, and five years after hundreds lost their lives in devastating floods in Belgium and Germany, the Brussels regional government has promised...
greenpeace.org
Silent but violent, cows' and other farm animals' farts (agricultural methane) heat the planet 80 times more than CO2 over a 20-year time frame But Ireland wants the EU to give cow farts a free pass, raising serious questions about its claim to be a climate leader www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/c...
Can Ireland Deliver as ‘Honest Broker’? Here’s What’s at Stake for Climate and Nature in EU Council Presidency
Environmental campaigners are urging Ireland to protect the public interest and resist industry pressure as the country takes up the presidency of the EU Council. The EU’s top agricultural polluter to...
desmog.com
Nitrogen pollution - mostly from animal farming - is out of control in Europe. It kills soils, chokes rivers, makes people sick & costs billions So it’s good that the EU is keeping its limits to how much fertiliser farmers can put on their fields, and hints at more measures in the worst-hit regions
Last day to sign and tell the EU to stop the trade deal with Israel Justice for Palestine!
Greenpeace EU@greenpeace.eu · 3w agoOnly 2 days left to tell the EU to stop the trade agreement with Israel! Sign by 15 July If you're an EU citizen, you can tell the EU Commission to suspend the EU-Israel trade agreement because of human rights abuses – with over a million verified signatures, the EU Commission is obliged to respond
Ordinary people are hugely exposed to skyrocketing energy bills because their governments and the EU have developed serious dependencies on oil and gas The government response to the Hormuz energy crisis has been mostly to dig these dependencies deeper, so the next shock will hurt more
€9.9 billion Hormuz energy crisis relief mostly supported fossil fuels - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels – Seven EU countries overwhelmingly deepened their fossil fuel dependence with their energy crisis response measures following the US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran, according to new res...
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Only 2 days left to tell the EU to stop the trade agreement with Israel! Sign by 15 July If you're an EU citizen, you can tell the EU Commission to suspend the EU-Israel trade agreement because of human rights abuses – with over a million verified signatures, the EU Commission is obliged to respond
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This Wednesday is the "EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis" 10,000 more people in Europe have just been added to that sad toll European governments and the EU are still not doing enough to slow the climate crisis, or to protect vulnerable people from the disasters already coming
Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show
The vast majority — more than 9,000 — were among people aged 65 and above.
reuters.com
Methane heats the planet equally whether it comes from a cow or a pipeline (and heats it a LOT) Rebranding methane from farmed animals as "natural" just to avoid cutting the massive climate pollution from livestock is wishful thinking This is a scandalous move from the EU Commission
The EU’s paradigm shift on cows
Europe’s plan to support livestock farmers recasts a climate problem as a strategic asset.
politico.eu
The EU dropped a new livestock strategy yesterday It ignores the fact that scientists are finding links between nitrate pollution (animal 💩) and bowel cancer And it suggests the EU might give Big Ag what it wants and change the way it counts methane emissions www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
EU livestock strategy ignores dangers from nitrates and methane - Greenpeace European Unit
The European Commission's new livestock strategy avoids the hard questions and fails to confront the destructive intensification in the EU livestock sector.
greenpeace.org
Exempt from transparency rules, the EU Commission's new so-called "Reality Checks" consultations are often attended only by lobbyists yet have shaped major deregulation proposals. Now the EU Ombudsman wants answers.
EU watchdog questions commission’s secretive ‘Reality Checks’ with corporate lobbyists
Exempt from transparency rules, the EU Commission's new so-called "Reality Checks" consultations are often attended only by lobbyists yet have shaped major deregulation proposals. Now the EU Ombudsman wants answers.
euobserver.com
The EU dropped a new livestock strategy yesterday It ignores the fact that scientists are finding links between nitrate pollution (animal 💩) and bowel cancer And it suggests the EU might give Big Ag what it wants and change the way it counts methane emissions www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...
EU livestock strategy ignores dangers from nitrates and methane - Greenpeace European Unit
The European Commission's new livestock strategy avoids the hard questions and fails to confront the destructive intensification in the EU livestock sector.
greenpeace.org
The oil-and-gas-powered climate crisis is about to bake Europe again, and could kill thousands more people The companies profiting from polluting the atmosphere share responsibility for these deaths
Europe may face 'more deadly weeks' as new heatwave builds, WHO warns
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that Europe could face “more deadly weeks” ahead, with another intense heatwave forming over the Atlantic.
reuters.com
“In Ukraine, security and energy have become the same thing” To prepare for the next winter, Ukrainians are racing to install heat pumps, solar panels and battery systems Windfarm construction workers sometimes spent up to 30% of their time in bomb shelters – and still delivered on time
War is driving Ukraine’s green energy build-out, but lack of money is holding it back
Russia's attacks on Ukraine's gas and coal plants are driving Kyiv's shift to cleaner energy sources. But a lack of access to Europe's capital markets is severely restricting the country's transition.
euobserver.com
"The environmental and human cost of war is accelerating at an alarming pace with the introduction of AI" "There’s a great deal of overlap between our data centre crisis and the destruction that war wreaks on the planet"
Kelly Earley: As global militaries wage war and kill people, they are also killing the planet
The impact of war generally goes under the radar in our conversations about pollution and the climate crisis.
thejournal.ie
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
The EU has gleefully ripped up the progress made over the last decade to reduce climate pollution and to restore nature – so the climate crisis accelerates and people are less protected from the impacts The centre-right and far-right wanted a bonfire of green rules, well it's certainly burning now
Europe heatwave shows need to reject climate denial ‘lies’, says EU green chief
Teresa Ribera blames ‘ideologically driven’ falsehoods, driven by those with vested interests in fossil fuels, for attacks on green policy
theguardian.com
If companies can't run data centres without polluting our air and water, pushing up energy bills, abusing workers' rights, harming local communities or wrecking the climate – then they shouldn't be allowed to run them A safe climate and healthy environment are necessities – tech bro profits aren't
EU weighs weaker data centre climate rules in win for Big Tech
Past proposals for strict rules on renewable energy certificates have been dropped after heavy lobbying, draft shows
ft.com
🚫 No taxpayers’ money for cruel cages. Factory farming fails animals, farmers, and the planet. 📢 ENVI Committee MEPs: vote for a #CAP that supports farmers in a just transition - not one that locks animals in cages and society in a climate doom loop.
This is for a US audience, but also relevant for a European audience who have just come through a major heatwave, and may be about to enter another one next week
Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · last mo.The heatwave hitting the US right now needs to be taken seriously. Climate columnist @markgongloff.bsky.social has advice on staying cool and how to detect heat exhaustion 🎥
It might not be clear from the headline, but the €13 billion cost for Ireland is an *ANNUAL* cost Part of the solution: "invest in home retrofits, public transport, renewable energy, and the electricity grid" How much is the climate crisis going to cost your country?
Failure to take climate action could cost €13bn - IFAC
Failing to take action on climate change could cost the State up to €13 billion by 2050, the State's fiscal watchdog has warned.
rte.ie
The EU has gleefully ripped up the progress made over the last decade to reduce climate pollution and to restore nature – so the climate crisis accelerates and people are less protected from the impacts The centre-right and far-right wanted a bonfire of green rules, well it's certainly burning now
Europe heatwave shows need to reject climate denial ‘lies’, says EU green chief
Teresa Ribera blames ‘ideologically driven’ falsehoods, driven by those with vested interests in fossil fuels, for attacks on green policy
theguardian.com