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Advanced biofuels producers and NGOs letter to Council of EU
In this letter to the Council of the European Union, producers of advanced biofuels and NGOs call on members states to start early second-reading negotiations on draft new biofuels legislation.Type of...
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53 leading scientists urge EU action on tar sands
In this letter, more than 50 leading scientists from around the world call for President Barroso to quickly implement the Fuel Quality Directive - a law which would keep dirty tar sands out of...
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Civil society and industry urge Barroso to maintain the Fuel Quality...
Ahead of the publication of the EU's Climate and Energy Strategy for 2030, civil society organisations and industry wrote to Commission President José Manuel Barroso urging him to maintain the Fuel...
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Request for Commission internal review on delay of Fuel Quality Directive...
The European Commission has delayed for years in proposing the implementing measures for article 7a of the Fuel Quality Directive - the only law that would lower emissions from transport fuels. This...
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Joint letter in support of targeted 2030 decarbonisation policy for clean...
Several transport stakeholders, including civil society organisations and industry players, wrote to EU institutions to highlight the importance of keeping dedicated policies for the decarbonisation of...
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Industry, Cities and T&E's letter on electrification of transport within EU's...
Ahead of its discussion on the EU’s key priorities for the next decade, seven stakeholder organisations from industry, transport and cities wrote to the College of the European Commission regarding the...
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NGOs write to Commission on electrification of transport within a European...
Ahead of the Communication on the European Energy Union with a forward-looking climate policy, NGOs wrote to the College of the European Commission asking it to pay special attention to the...
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Speech to informal council of EU environment ministers
Thank you Madam President for the invitation and for organising this very timely and relevant event. I represent Transport & Environment, a Brussels-based environmental group specialising in...
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NGOs recommendations for post-2020 sustainable low carbon transport fuels policy
The European Commission is currently working on a new Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and a new bioenergy sustainability policy for the period 2020-2030, which will have implications on the long-term...
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'Biofuels not a way to decarbonise aviation'
In a letter to the Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, five green and development organisations - Birdlife, Friends of the Earth, Fern, Oxfam, and T&E - ask the Commissioner to reconsider her...
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Reject a new target for crop biofuels - ITRE vote 28th November
At the meeting of the ITRE Committee on 28th November, MEPs will be voting on the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED, 2016/0382/COD). In the letter here below, the main environmental NGOs in...
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30 NGOs condemn the assassination of Hernán Bedoya, Colombian community leader
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the assassination of Hernán Bedoya, Colombian community leader and human rights activist, reportedly by neo-paramilitary group Autodefensas Gaitanisas de...
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Indonesian community leaders letter to EU Commission on palm oil diesel
We are leaders of indigenous people’s organizations, farmers’ unions, civil society organizations, traditional communities, farmers, laborers, human rights defenders and environmental activists. We...
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NGO coalition urge Commissioner Canete to include palm oil and soy biodiesel...
A coalition of 21 NGOs urged Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete to exclude soy- and palm oil-based biodiesel from the list of biofuels eligible to count toward renewable energy targets...
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