Ariel Brunner
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Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia with
@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social
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Ariel Brunner
Oonagh Duggan
5 days ago
A trip to Albania reminded me how important the Birds and Habitats Directives are. Yes our habitats are in poor condition, yes 63% of wild bird species are in danger, but we have habitats we can restore. Without them we have no hope.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: Two thirds of Ireland’s wild bird species are in danger. So are the rules protecting them
Nature directives protecting the habitats of species such as the ‘fairy bird’ of Belmullet are being threatened in the name of progress
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/05/21/opinion-two-thirds-of-irelands-wild-bird-species-are-in-danger-so-are-the-rules-protecting-them/
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Good to see the EU Nature restoration law already being implemented. Onwards!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Record number of dams dismantled in Europe in effort to help wildlife thrive
Weirs, culverts and sluices among 602 barriers demolished in year in attempt to restore 15,500 miles of rivers by 2030
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/21/record-number-of-dams-dismantled-in-europe-in-effort-to-help-wildlife-thrive?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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The era of clownish politics is truly upon us. Agri Ministers ask to make Cormorants huntable to... protect "food security". Beyond commenting. Here's the list of the clueless: Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Croatia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania
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Opinion: Two thirds of Ireland’s wild bird species are in danger. So are the rules protecting them
Nature directives protecting the habitats of species such as the ‘fairy bird’ of Belmullet are being threatened in the name of progress
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/05/21/opinion-two-thirds-of-irelands-wild-bird-species-are-in-danger-so-are-the-rules-protecting-them/
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Ariel Brunner
BirdLife Europe & Central Asia
11 days ago
𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗴𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲!🦅 After 35 years of tireless conservation efforts, this species is finally coming back from the brink of extinction.
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Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study
Meat and dairy production are significant drivers of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. Many companies claim to be tackling this, but nearly all these claims, 98%, could be considered greenwa...
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/nearly-all-climate-claims-by-meat-and-dairy-firms-amount-to-greenwashing-study/
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Ariel Brunner
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
13 days ago
EU Commission's 'Better Regulation' reform institutionalises undemocratic highspeed
#deregulation
methods 🚨 Instead of halting its methods for producing
#Omnibus
proposals at speed, the Commission intends to change its rules to enable more of this 😠 New post:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
https://corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
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From today's
@politico.eu
When EC official was asked by Dutch MPs whether the food omnibus would deliver simplification without weakening safeguards on safety of
#Pesticides
, he said: “The proof of the pudding will be in the eating". You cannot recognise serious news from satire anymore.
14 days ago
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This is big: Dutch Court rules the government cannot keep allowing
#BottomTrawling
in (so called) Protected Areas, specifically the Dogger Bank, without license or impact assessment. Gives it weeks to comply. It's the same situation in virtually every European country.
14 days ago
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The catastrophic impact of intensive
#livestock
farming. Rather than promoting a change, EU politicians are now debating dismantling environmental law to allow even more pollution, and even more concentration. Just madness.
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
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‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed
The long read: After a series of deaths on the beaches of Brittany, one bereaved family set out toprove the foul-smelling bloom was to blame
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/12/i-couldnt-breathe-the-sinister-spread-of-frances-killer-seaweed?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Have just been on site, with
@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social
Partners from across Europe, in Albania's Vjosa delta-Narta lagoon "protected" area. It is being devastated as we speak by the construction of an airport and a massive luxury tourism complex promoted by Jared Kushner.
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Ariel Brunner (director de SEO/BirdLife Europa): España, a la vanguardia de la conservación de biodiversidad - EFE Verde
España "está en la vanguardia" de la conservación de la biodiversidad en un momento "difícil" para la Unión Europea (UE) a nivel medioambiental, según apunta el director regional de SEO/BirdLife en Eu...
https://efeverde.com/director-de-seo-birdlife-europaespanaa-la-vanguardia-de-la-conservacion-de-biodiversidad/
21 days ago
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Wow. “Let me put it in somewhat vivid and figurative terms: We need to throw a spanner in the works of this machine in Brussels now, so that it stops.” This is not Trump or Putin. Its German chansler Mertz.
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#WindEurope2026
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about 1 month ago
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My interview with Spanish news agency after our meeting with State Ecretary for energy.
www.infobae.com/espana/agenc...
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SEO/BirdLife: "Salir de los combustibles fósiles es una cuestión de supervivencia"
SEO/BirdLife: "Salir de los combustibles fósiles es una cuestión de supervivencia"
https://www.infobae.com/espana/agencias/2026/04/23/seobirdlife-salir-de-los-combustibles-fosiles-es-una-cuestion-de-supervivencia/
about 1 month ago
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In Madrid with a delegation of
@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social
Partners for
#WindEurope2026
to which we are official biodiversity partner. Good to see increasing attention to nature from the sector. But will ongoing environmental deregulation mess it all up? Will be posting ovet coming days.
about 1 month ago
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This is the biggest security risk for Europe. Time to treat it that way.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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I'm old enough to remember the days when spring landscape outside the train windows was dominated by the red of poppies. Now it's replaced by the sickly orange of glifosated fields.
#biodiversity
#farming
#pesticides
about 1 month ago
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Ariel Brunner
Dogwood Alliance
about 2 months ago
Beaver-created
#wetlands
had 19% more species than other types of wetland. Strengthening
#biodiversity
in areas where they can build dams.
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Beavers bring biodiversity to wetlands, study shows
Beavers should be embraced as key allies in the fight against biodiversity loss according to scientists at the University of Stirling, after new research revealed the significant ecological benefits…
https://buff.ly/emvUWoy
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Ariel Brunner
European Environmental Bureau🍃
about 2 months ago
"𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭." The origin story of deregulation 📣 🚜 🔎 New investigation by
@natashafoote.bsky.social
@euobserver.com
shows how
#FarmerProtests
were hijacked to roll back rules that protect people and nature – all to favour big business.
euobserver.com/208082/pitch...
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Pitchfork politics and sausage-making: how the farmers ‘crisis’ rewrote EU green rules behind closed doors
Legal experts call it undemocratic; the official watchdog calls it a failure of integrity. After a wave of farm protests rocked the continent, Brussels gutted its green protections at record speed, le...
https://euobserver.com/208082/pitchfork-politics-and-sausage-making-how-the-farmers-crisis-rewrote-eu-green-rules-behind-closed-doors/
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More than 15 years ago we helped save Kenya's precious Dakatcha woodland from being cleared for an Italian biofuels plantation Now ENI is being reported driving poverty & hunger in Kenya for "sustainable" aviation fuel. When will we learn?
@transportenvironment.org
@birdlifeafrica.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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Dr. Raphael Weyland
2 months ago
We must keep
#LIFE
alive - good event by MEP
@cesarluena.bsky.social
et al from S+D Group
@europarl.europa.eu
on the need to continue (ramp-up?) dedicated
#Nature
funding in the next
#EUBudget
(also to implement the
#RestoreNature
Law I hope)! cc
@mariannegros.bsky.social
@arielbrunner.bsky.social
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Keeping LIFE alive: the need for a standalone LIFE programme in the next MFF | Socialists and Democrats
Keeping LIFE alive: the need for a standalone LIFE programme in the next MFF
https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/events/keeping-life-alive-need-standalone-life-programme-next-mff
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Quite impressive impact of
#RestoreNature
in Scotland Biodiversity loss can be reversed. If we choose to.
search.app/r7r1Q
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Rewilding linked to dramatic increases in birds across Scotland
New research across Scotland's Northwoods Rewilding Network has revealed striking biodiversity gains on rewilded land, with bird diversity increasing by more than 260% and pollinating insects rising m...
https://search.app/r7r1Q
2 months ago
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EC issues "reasoned opinion" against Austria in case about conservation measures of
#Natura2000
. Essentially, it's about faking conservation. Good. Hope ECJ will now issue a strong ruling. Enough paper parks.
2 months ago
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Ariel Brunner
POLITICO Europe
3 months ago
Europeans should eat less meat and farms must be taxed for their planet-warming pollution if the bloc is to reach its climate goals, the EU's scientific advisers argue. Their far-reaching recommendations are unlikely to get a warm welcome from farmers.
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EU climate advisers say eat less meat and tax farm emissions
Brussels must take urgent measures to reduce the carbon footprint of food and farming, a scientific advisory board report says.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-climate-advisers-say-eat-less-meat-and-tax-farm-emissions/
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Ariel Brunner
Rachel Sherrington
3 months ago
Europe’s waterways are under threat as the mining lobby pushes for looser environmental protections. New from me for
@desmog.com
👇
www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/e...
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Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby
The EU’s flagship water law is under threat amid a concerted lobbying blitz from the mining industry. New analysis by DeSmog reveals sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the re...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/europes-waterways-under-threat-from-mining-lobby/
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Ariel Brunner
DeSmog
3 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby Industry meetings w/ EU officials tripled ahead of release of EU Commission strategy doc pledging to 'review and revise' the Water Framework Directive 📝 by
@rachelsherrington.bsky.social
w/
@euobserver.com
www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/e...
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Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby
The EU’s flagship water law is under threat amid a concerted lobbying blitz from the mining industry. New analysis by DeSmog reveals sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the re...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/europes-waterways-under-threat-from-mining-lobby/
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European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change calls for scrapping harmful CAP subsidies, a caron price in farming, and recycling the money back into helping farmers adapt and increase resilience. No brainer, but don't expect any short term action. The farm lobby wants the disaster.
3 months ago
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Ariel Brunner
BirdLife Europe & Central Asia
3 months ago
🙅 Tell your decision makers:
#HandsOffNature
! Delaying the EU Deforestation Regulation = 50 million trees lost per year Enforcing it = 17 million tonnes of CO₂ less + benefits for our health & nature. When leaders won’t do the math, your action is essential. 👉
handsoffnature.eu#take-action
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The CAP has now been pretty much handed over to national governments to use as they please As a brave Bulgarian minister raises again the issue of widespread corruption, it's worth noting that in BG 2.4% of beneficiaries received 45% of direct payments, while nearly half of recipients get just 3.4%
3 months ago
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While the world burns, our politicians adopt an idiotic law that tries to make it burn faster.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products
Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/eu-ban-meaty-names-vegetarian-vegan-food?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
3 months ago
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European justice is slow, but it still works. Portugal fined 10 million euro plus running fine for not complying with 2019 judgement on failing to properly designate and protect
#Natura2000
sites. Important precedent. Hope PT gov will now do the decent thing and start complying.
3 months ago
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The EP’s envi committee just voted to maintain a standalone LIFE asking for €6.4 billion Well done Now the EC should cissue an emended MFF proposal that preserves this crucial tool, both for adressing the biodiversity crisis and to enable local level constructive cooperation between stakehonders
3 months ago
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So EU Commissioner Hansen is back drumming up
#biofuels
as a solution to expensive oil. An idea that failed 20 years ago. Reminder: - we dont have the land -when fossil fuel goes up, against commodities follow -further linking oil and food markets is going to starve the most vumerable.
3 months ago
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Ariel Brunner
Compassion in World Farming EU
3 months ago
This week, EU lawmakers will resume discussions on whether to censor how to talk about plant-based food... we’d rather they stop spreading confusion. There’s
#NoConfusion
.
#YesVeggieBurger
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Beyond commenting really. Maltese gov reauthorises finch trapping in defiance of the EU law and ECJ judgements. @jessikaroswall.ec.europe.eu needs to take immediate action.
birdlifemalta.org/2026/03/bird...
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BirdLife Malta condemns the Government’s decision to reopen new trapping licences
BirdLife Malta strongly condemns the Government’s decision, announced through the Wild Birds Regulation Unit (WBRU), to reopen applications for new General Trapping Licences. This move represents a...
https://birdlifemalta.org/2026/03/birdlife-malta-condemns-the-governments-decision-to-reopen-new-trapping-licences/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQRXgdleHRuA2FlbQExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4aSddK6C9-AYbPwG80-5wZXkVNmouhuZYUSx3QNp3YpSIRoy8xvNLV58AZAg_aem_DpGMVwaTIGYT6LLlzx0Qng
3 months ago
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Ariel Brunner
EUwatch 🇪🇺
3 months ago
The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers
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The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers
Green transition pioneers complain they are paying price for rewarding industry laggards
https://www.ft.com/content/1f602553-15e0-471c-b295-2179a7a0d802
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Ariel Brunner
BirdLife Europe & Central Asia
3 months ago
🙅 People across Europe are demanding a lead-free future. 7 in 10 European citizens support a strong EU ban. Yet the latest draft weakens the restriction by excluding bullets. Lead puts human, wildlife and nature health at risk. Ignoring science and public demand is not leadership.
#BanLeadNow
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Ariel Brunner
Durham University
3 months ago
Research from our Biosciences Department and the British Trust for Ornithology shows that hotter European summers are reducing migratory birds’ ability to fuel up for their long journeys. These changes could have serious consequences for bird populations across Europe & Africa. 👉
bit.ly/46eofTf
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Hotter European summers put migratory birds at risk - Durham University
https://durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/11/hotter-european-summers-put-migratory-birds-at-risk/
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Ariel Brunner
Brent Toderian
3 months ago
“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.” Should be the top story everyday.
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Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/flawed-economic-models-mean-climate-crisis-could-crash-global-economy-experts-warn
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Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis?
Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/21/under-water-in-denial-is-europe-drowning-out-the-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
3 months ago
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Ariel Brunner
BirdLife Europe & Central Asia
3 months ago
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Tomorrow is the deadline for EU Member States to publish their Renewable Acceleration Areas.
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Current attack on environmental legislation goes much further than stopping the green deal. It tries to reverse 40 years of env lawmaking. It will kill nature and people, harm most European companies & destroy the EU which is based on a common rules based market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Merz and Meloni: an emerging Berlin-Rome axis is threatening the EU’s green deal
The deregulation agenda being pushed by Germany’s chancellor and Italy’s prime minister is economically and ethically flawed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/19/the-guardian-view-on-merz-and-meloni-an-emerging-berlin-rome-axis-is-threatening-the-eus-green-deal?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
3 months ago
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The livestock industry bangs on bout not interfering with people's choices. But from grossly distorted subsidies to anti consumer legislation it keeps rigging the system. To be clear, the vast majority of support does not go to support biodiversity rich grazing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds
Report says common agricultural policy provides ‘unfair’ levels of support to unhealthy, meat-heavy diets
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/19/beef-lamb-legumes-eu-subsidies-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
3 months ago
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Ariel Brunner
European Environmental Bureau🍃
3 months ago
🔴 Ozone pollution costs Europe 775,000 life-years and €80bn a year – yet methane, a main driver, is still ignored! Our new
#MethaneMatters
study featured in today's
@euobserver.com
shows why EU action on methane is urgent and essential. 👀 Read more:
euobserver.com/202963/ozone...
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Ozone pollution kills 75,000 Europeans a year, and costs €80bn. So why is methane being ignored?
Treating methane as an afterthought in air quality policy is no longer a technical oversight but a political choice, with measurable consequences for citizens’ health, farmers’ livelihoods and environ...
https://euobserver.com/202963/ozone-pollution-kills-75000-europeans-a-year-and-costs-e80bn-so-why-is-methane-being-ignored/
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Not that many good news at the moment so take this one into the WE. DK gov got EC state aid greenlight for a 1bn euro investment in farms buy out for nature restoration. Partbof the deal negotiated with farm unions and NGOs to meet climate and nitrogen targets.
3 months ago
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As Meloni and Merz lead the assault against EU laws, polluting industries ditch any pretence of "simplification" and ask for dismantling 40 years of laws protecting nature and humannhealth and safety.
3 months ago
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Ariel Brunner
BirdLife Europe & Central Asia
3 months ago
Fancy a meeting in a castle to decide the future of 450 million Europeans? This is what 27 EU leaders are doing today, without you even knowing it 🤷 Find out more in our video & join 170,000+ people who signed the petition to defend nature laws, sign here 👇
handsoffnature.eu#take-action
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Ariel Brunner
Sustainable Water Network (SWAN)
3 months ago
The Taoiseach is meeting EU leaders today to 'highlight the need to streamline & simplify our regulatory framework'. However, this push for 'simplification' is weakening EU environmental laws, including the EU's water law. 🌊🦦 Sign our petition to say
#HandsOffNature
✋
f.mtr.cool/idwqdgltoj
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Ariel Brunner
Environmental Pillar
3 months ago
27 EU leaders. In a castle. Deciding which protections to cut for polluter profit 😡 180,000+ people already said:
#HandsOffNature
✊ Join us in telling EU leaders that we will not sacrifice our future for corporate profits 👉
www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
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