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    Let's follow the sun

    Helping Africa accelerating its energy transition is indispensable while climate negotiations are on-going in Marrakech. Listen to our MEP Claude Turmes
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    COP 22 - Words are good. Financing is better

    Bas Eickhout explains why the commitment from the international community is absolutely essential to combat climate change.
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    Nobel winning economist Pr Stiglitz visits the Greens in the European Parliament

    Pr Stiglitz did us the honour to come and speak yesterday with Green Members of the European Parliament. As a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), together with our Parliamentarian Eva Joly, he is in Brussels this week to launch two new im...
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    Positive feedback on Greens/EFA draft EU Directive for the protection of whisteblowers

      On 4 May 2016, the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament presented a draft Directive to ensure minimum standards of protection for whistleblowers across the European Union. The Directive, drafted with the help of legal experts, was designed to be a catalyst that would push forward th...
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    COP 22 - 2018 is the year

    We need to honour our word and stick to the commitments of the Paris' agreement: hold the global temperature increase well below 2 degrees and do our utmost to limit it to 1.5 degrees. We are calling on the European Commission and EU Governments to revise their pledges to ensure millions of people are not displaced all over the world due …
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    Start of the COP22

    The last year has seen a major change in global attitudes towards climate change and how to tackle it. This change started after the Paris Agreement - the first globally binding agreement to fight climate change - was reached in December 2015. Just eleven months later, this agreement has already entered into force - a speed that is unprec…
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    Conflicts of interest

    Next Wednesday 16th November, the Commission is due to discuss (and possibly decide) on a prolongation of the cooling off period for ex- Commissioners, which is designed to prevent possible conflicts of interest arising from the "revolving door".
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    COP 22

    The Greens/EFA joined the many people gathered in Marrakesh at #COP22 with a clear message: It's time to turn words into action!
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    Landrush : The Sellout of Europe's Farmland

    In this study we outline the current developments in the new rush for land in Europe by taking several countries as examples. We have also compiled possible approaches for action. With this study we would like to raise awareness and initiate a new way of thinking about our land in the whole of Europe.
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    Finance Ministers agree on criteria to define tax havens

    This post was supposed to be about yesterday’s European Finance Ministers meeting and their decision on criteria to screen non-European countries who are deemed to be tax havens. These criteria will ultimately lead to some countries appearing on the first European common backlist of tax havens at the end of 2017.