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  • Dominic Eagleton / Sept. 15, 2023

    New EU green energy rules exclude fossil hydrogen

    The Renewable Energy Directive, designed to boost the roll-out of renewable energy across Europe, is also promoting a climate-damaging fuel that’s made from fossil gas

    Hydrogen Gas Still
  • Arianne Griffith / June 8, 2023

    Five wins in our campaign for a law to hold companies to account

    Members of the European Parliament voted for a version of the a new corporate accountability law which includes five important wins for people and the planet

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  • Giulia Bondi / May 16, 2023

    The EU just passed a historic anti-deforestation law. Now it needs to go after the banks

    It's time to end the money pipeline financing deforestation

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  • May 14, 2023

    Europeans want a law to hold companies accountable on climate

    The EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive law has the potential to transform how businesses act on climate

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  • Maximilian Jung / Jan. 23, 2023

    Berta Cáceres: New rules for banks could help stop defender killings

    Last year, the EU proposed a law that could stop companies profiting from projects linked to the repression and murder of environmental defenders

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  • Giulia Bondi / Dec. 13, 2022

    A new chapter to stop the EU’s complicity in global deforestation is about to start

    In the early hours of 6 December 2022, the EU reached an historic agreement to halt and reverse its substantial role in global deforestation

    Deforestation in the region of Marabá, Pará State, Brazil
  • Aurelie Skrobik & Marina Comandulli / Sept. 1, 2022

    Sowing Hope

    European Parliament members consult with Brazilian traditional communities on new law that promises to prevent and address human rights violations and environmental harms

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  • Nienke Palstra / July 5, 2022

    Brussels takes on Big Tech: The good, the bad and the ugly

    The Digital Services Act is the most sweeping set of rules to regulate tech companies anywhere in the world. Our take on what these rules do, and don’t, achieve

    An activist of environmental NGO Avaaz wearing a mask depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a banner reading "Regulate me" during an action marking the release of the Digital Services Act, outside the European Commission
  • Rachel Cox & Aurelie Skrobik / May 30, 2022

    How Europe can stop funding land grabs in Brazil

    The expansion of ranching and plantations is at the heart of land conflicts in the Amazon

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  • / Oct. 22, 2021

    How much money are EU banks and investors making from deforestation and related human rights abuses?

    The EU is a key market for products linked to deforestation, but it is also home to big banks that are helping finance destructive agribusiness companies responsible for deforestation and associated human rights abuses

    Rainforest covers most of the Brazilian state of Acre
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