FOSSIL OUT - PEACE NOW!

🌱Together with our 200+ member organisations, we gather at our General Assembly to build collective hope for the future!

⚡This week we energise, strategise, organise, mobilise & harmonise - and celebrate the AMAZING work our members are doing all around Europe & world!

Freedom of speech is under growing pressure. We support @recommon.org and Eva Pastorelli, who is being sued by ENI, using common corporate intimidation tactics.

We are also concerned by ENI's CEO's statements suggesting that the EU consider returning to Russian gas imports 👇

The #SantaMarta Conference comes at a decisive geopolitical moment and for Europe - phasing out fossil-fuels is a question of security, resilience and long-term prosperity.

The EU has opportunity: end its own fossil fuel dependence and actively contribute to shaping of a global transition framework

I‘m 💯 here for this content. Love to see green investments pay off, if only for a month. Never waste a crisis to prop cheaper safe longterm assets.

Just wish we didnt need war to get to this. We can do this by demand side action, not deadly supply shocks. But I guess human nature is wired that way.

Climate shocks don’t get equal coverage. New research by DPIR's @acalacino.bsky.social, Mats Ahrenshop, @fgenovese.bsky.social  & @hayleypring.bsky.social shows fossil fuel–heavy areas mute reporting, while others see clearer climate coverage: https://tinyurl.com/ye2hjdtf

Europeans want more renewables, even if it increases energy bills Public enthusiasm for clean energy comes as the Iran war exposes Europe’s vulnerability to global oil and gas markets.

"Yes, please!" - Europeans want more renewables.

Polling across 6 EU countries shows 60% support maintaining or accelerating the rollout.

There is no public mandate to roll back the EU climate agenda; the public is calling to go further ⏩⏩⏩

Vance: the EU is utterly disillusioned to think they can get rid of gas and oil, green energy is woke and weak

The ECB:

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👀 Wow !
The #EuropeanCentralBank just declared #fossilfuels a threat to the economy of #Europe. Not about what, but ❗ who ❗ says this.

Yes, obvious. So this isn’t new. But hearing it from the ECB is.

Energy transition isn’t only about #climate anymore.

www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

Report: Taxing fossil fuel profits, not consumers Taxing fossil fuel industry profits would provide a structural signal to investors, discouraging continued investment in fossil fuel activities and reallocating capital in the energy transition,…

💡Taxing extraordinary profits by fossil companies is building momentum!

⚡Money generated can be used to shield households from spiking energy bills & support them in energy transition.

✅It is short-term measure - but it does not have to stop there! We urgently need permanent tax on fossil profits!

The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) were created to protect public health—decreasing risks of cancer and heart and lung disease. Updated in 2024, these standards were just rolled back by the Trump administration. We will see them in court for repealing these stronger standards.

In 2022, Italian oil company Eni approached Kenyan farmers with a pitch: plant castor, and we’ll buy the crop to turn into green fuel.

But an investigation by POLITICO and @source-material.org found many smallholders were left with no pay — and no food.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/seed...

Solar is winning the energy race The world's cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.

Global #solar energy capacity has skyrocketed over the last decade.
Solar now supplies about 10% of the world's energy.
Global solar capacity could hit 9,000 GW by 2030 — enough to meet more than 20% of the world's #energy demand.
www.dw.com/en/solar-is-...

Seeds of doubt: The dark side of an Italian energy giant’s green jet fuel promise Italian state-owned oil giant Eni presents its Kenyan biofuel project as a model for sustainable air travel. Many small farmers say it’s failed them.

Italian oil giant Eni says its Kenya biofuel project is a model for fair and sustainable agriculture.

So why are farmers telling us they were pushed to grow castor beans to make green fuel that no one came to buy?

Rear our investigation w/ @source-material.org

www.politico.eu/article/seed...

climate astroturfing in 2026, oil on canvas

💧 EU backs new water pollution rules👏

Action on PFAS, pesticides & pharma pollution is long overdue.

But delays until 2039 (!) and new loopholes risk slowing progress...

Worse, plans to weaken vital water laws could open the door to even more pollution!

Full reaction & make your voice heard👇

Recommendations to the EU leaders This crisis is another stark reminder that Europe cannot achieve real energy security whilst remaining dependent on fossil fuel imports, regardless of their origin.

European Council meets tomorrow to decide on the EU's response to the crisis at hand.

At home, the response must be targeted, temporary & protect the most vulnerable - without distorting the energy transition.

Internationally, the EU & its members must engage in united diplomacy to stop the war.

Germany won't return to nuclear power, chancellor says European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in favor of a proposal to build new nuclear power plants in the EU. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says it's impossible.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in favour of a proposal to build new #nuclear power plants in the EU. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says it's impossible.
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For those in Europe obviously and legitimately freaking out about Russia pushing its fossil fuels as the US is attacking Iran, reminder that Europe very much allowed the US to push for LNG when Russia first attacked Ukraine.

Our statement on the conflict in the Middle East.

Lasting peace, global justice and climate stability are deeply interconnected and can only be built on justice, respect for human rights, and full compliance with international law 🕊️

Read our statement below 👇
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CAN Europe letter to the European leaders The CAN Europe network is deeply concerned by the war on Iran, the escalating conflict across the region, and the devastating human toll this brings. CAN Europe denounces breaches of international law and urges EU Member States to pursue constructive and united diplomacy to bring the war to an end.

Our letter to the European Council:
🕊️ The devastating human toll of war on Iran & wider conflict
🛢️ EU's energy security & fossil fuel dependency
💶 Multiannual Financial Framework & budget priorities
📉 Stability of the EU ETS framework
⚡ Affordable energy prices

➡️ caneurope.org/can-europe-l...

CAN Europe priorities for the “European climate resilience and risk management – integrated framework”

In 2024 @eea.europa.eu warned that climate risks are already hitting Europe’s people, economies and ecosystems.

As the @ec.europa.eu prepares its climate resilience & risk management framework, Europe must step up how it prepares for climate impacts.

Read more:
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OPEN LETTER - European Industry needs the predictability of a robust ETS to Compete and Invest Like the European Council, we the undersigned, representing more than 100 companies and investors, are deeply concerned with the competitiveness of European industry: the diagnosis the Draghi report provided now 18 months ago still holds true. This comes at a time when the global context has become even less stable, less predictable and less open.

Cleantech for Europe: Open letter - European Industry needs the predictability of a robust ETS to compete and invest

Why the revision of the EU Governance Regulation matters for the climate and energy transition - CAN Europe The revision of the EU Governance Regulation is more than a technical update to reporting and planning rules — it is a test of whether Europe is serious about delivering a faster, fairer and more acco...

📩 CAN Europe answers the Commission’s consultation on revising the EU Governance Regulation.

Our message: cut unnecessary admin, not climate delivery — protect targets, strong planning, transparency and compliance for a credible post-2030 framework.

👉 caneurope.org/governance-regulation-revision

Omnibus VI : No toxics in our cosmetics ! - Shake Ton Politique

Support @generationsfutures.fr call to the European Parliament: EU rules for health protection – no toxics in our cosmetics!

🚫 No deregulation of carcinogens, mutagens, or reprotoxic substances in cosmetics
🚫 No loopholes. No delays

🗣️ Make your voice heard: shaketonpolitique.org/en/appeals/o...

👥⚡The Citizens Energy Package published today comes at a critical moment.

♻️🔋 Europe must protect households from energy price shocks by phasing out fossil fuels and accelerating investment in RES, grids, storage and electrification that benefit people.

Read​​👉 caneurope.org/citizens-ene...

White text on blue background with CAT logo. Text is a quote saying "China's 15th five year plan is a missed opportunity. While it continues to strongly emphasise clean energy development, it could have gone further. A 17% reduction in carbon-intensity target would actually allow China's emission to increase by 3% under a conservative GDP growth.”

China released its 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP). The plan reinforces the rapid expansion of clean energy, but it does not translate this momentum into stronger binding emissions targets.

Read our full reaction here 🔗 climateactiontracker.org/press/reacti...

The Industrial Accelerator Act is finally here. Now it must deliver with speed and more ambition. - CAN Europe Brussels, 4 March 2026 – After a long winter of delays, the European Commission finally presented its Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) today. CAN Europe acknowledges the importance of the IAA, as it c...

The Industrial Accelerator Act #IAA is finally here.

It’s a welcome step for industrial decarbonisation — but speed, ambition and real results must follow.

A “made-in-Europe” strategy must drive climate ambition, resilience and quality jobs — not undermine global decarbonisation.

Our reaction:

First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Colombia and the Netherlands will host the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The Conference is designed as a space for countries, subnational governments and other stakeholders...

📣 1st Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels coming this April

It marks a shift from commitments to action!

We applaud hosts Colombia and the Netherlands, and the Pacific Island nations strengthening international cooperation for a fossil fuel phaseout.

👇 transitionawayconference.com

1/ Europe is changing the dealer, but keeping the addiction.
Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU was 44% dependent on Russia for its gas supplies. Four years later, the U.S. is well on track to become Europe’s largest gas supplier, overtaking Norway.

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President Trump’s EPA just repealed the legal and scientific conclusion that climate change is real and gutted restrictions on climate pollution from vehicles. It already said it would stop factoring in lives saved to its cost-benefit analysis of air pollution rules. Now, we’re taking them to court.