Greens/EFA priorities for next week's Strasbourg Plenary include the state of nuclear power on the Fukushima anniversary, strengthening the role of cooperatives in European society, the recent elections in Russia, government violence in Syria, the low carbon roadmap...
Everybody is quick when it comes to asking for more technology transfer to developing countries. The parliament has stated several times in different resolutions the need to foster technology transfer. Obviously, developing countries need better access to climate friendly technology if we want to...
Greens/EFA conference on the problems of land grabbing around the world
The public debate included high level speakers like Olivier de Schutter, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the human right to food; Renée Vellvé from GRAIN, the global network focussing on people's struggles against privatisation of natural resources; Shivani Chaudhry, an Indian human r...
Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property
Although technological innovation is only part of the overall solution to climate change, it is an essential aspect of it. The current situation requires overcoming the dilemma between the need for widespread and rapid diffusion of knowledge and climate technologies to developing countries; and the need for incentives for technology devel…
To mark the first year anniversary of the tragic Japanese earthquake and the resulting nuclear disaster (11 March), the Greens/EFA group held a conference and symbolic action at the European Parliament in Brussels. There should never again be a nuclear accident like in Fukushima and we need to end nuclear power.
As Europe, and much of the developed world, continues to grapple with the ongoing debt crisis, it must not be forgotten that the most pressing threat facing us is climate change. This report examines how we can make the necessary investment in a Green economy within the confines of the debt crisis.
Ahead of today's council of home affairs ministers, a group of 7 member states has presented a set of demands on the issue of immigration in Greece (1). The proposals include, among others, the possibility for EU member states to reintroduce border controls with Greece. The Greens have hit out at th...
The European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has been malfunctioning for months as the low carbon price continues to undermine, rather than encourage, green investment. This will be a central topic during the discussions that the Environment Council will hold on Friday. On Wednesday morning, Gr...
The European Parliament,
– having regard to its previous resolutions on human rights violations in Nigeria,
– having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, ratified by Nigeria on 29 October 1993,
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The European Parliament,
– having regard to its previous resolutions on Kazakhstan with regard, in particular, to the one of 17 September 2009,
– having regard to its resolution on a EU Strategy for Central Asia of 15 December 2011,
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