Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.

Hi, have a look at this petition: EU environmental laws have worked for decades but now they're getting dismantled for corporate profit. We need as many signatures as possible to defend people and nature 🤝#HandsOffNature
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Making electrification work - ECOS What can the EU do to make electrification work? From renewables to efficiency – and everything in-between – discover the six energy transition essentials.

How can the EU make electrification work?

For Europe’s security and sustainability, here are the essentials 👇
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Vacancy: Programme Manager – Petrochemicals We are looking for a highly motivated Programme Manager to work on industry decarbonisation, with a special focus on the petrochemical industry.

Are you a chemistry/physics whiz?
Do you have strong analytical skills?
Do you enjoying translating technical content into accessible information?

We're looking for a Programme Manager on #petrochemicals to join our team! 👩‍🔬

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🔃 Trade agreements are increasingly seen as tools to facilitate the trade of low-carbon products, like green steel.

But mass balance, a way of mixing clean and conventional production methods, could undermine those trade measures.

👀 Learn how and what can be done: ecostandard.org/publications...

Can we stop Microsoft's e-waste mountain? YouTube video by Right to Repair Europe

Campaigners gathered at @microsoft.com's Brussels offices to protest the end of #Windows10, urging them to reconsider and the @ec.europa.eu to introduce Ecodesign requirements for laptops and other energy-related products, so that this cannot happen again 💻🗑

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Mathieu Rama, Senior Programme Manager at ECOS, said: "Microsoft hitting the snooze button by offering an extra year of Windows 10 updates to a limited group of consumers should not put us back to sleep. We need real solutions: stronger rules on software obsolescence to stop wasting precious resources - and at least fifteen years of security updates for all digital products."

It's #InternationalEwasteDay & @microsoft.com is making up to 400 million computers obsolete.

From today👇

💻 No more #Windows10 automatic support for all PCs
🗑️ #ewaste could jump by 700 million kg

We need laws that make companies provide software & support for the full lifetime of their products.

🚨4 weeks until @microsoft.com ends free support for Windows 10, making 400 million PCs obsolete. And - ironically - it's happening on #EWasteDay, just days before #RepairDay.

We don’t have to accept fast tech. Communities worldwide are repairing, resisting, and demanding better ✊ find out how below

Anastasia Tsougka of ECOS said: "This definition of 'low-carbon' hydrogen is based on unrealistically low methane emission values that don't reflect the reality on the ground. By giving it an advantage, the European Commission has created an uneven playing field for renewable hydrogen - the only kind with near-zero emissions. Low-carbon cannot deliver what no-carbon can, and it shouldn't get a free pass to pollute. This will only lock Europe into fossil fuel use and jeopardise climate goals."

🚨 The EU has just classified fossil-based #hydrogen projects using #CCS as ‘low-carbon’.

However, the chosen definition is based on estimated #methane emission values that are too low, which will lock Europe into continued fossil fuel use.

More details in our blog 👇
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Defining low-carbon hydrogen: How to do it right - ECOS The EU is about to define what kinds of hydrogen can be called ‘low-carbon’. What definitions are the most accurate, and how can they be integrated into EU law?

Not all #hydrogen is created equal ⚖️ From high to low, emissions vary.

😈 The devil is in the definitions — and the EU’s Low-Carbon Fuels Delegated Act is about to set them.

The big question: what kinds of hydrogen should qualify as ‘low-carbon’? 🤔👇
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Wood stoves without filters? EU study warns of high health costs New evidence shows that mandating filters in wood-burning heaters could cut harmful particle emissions by 70%, reducing the health burden.

🔥 Wood stoves: romantic, rustic, and deadly.

Wood burning is the EU’s top source of fine particle pollution (PM2.5) from energy.

A new EEB study shows that mandatory filters on new stoves could slash toxic emissions by 70% – at a cost of less than 0.5% of annual household income.

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ECOS vision for a successful EU Electrification Action Plan - ECOS ECOS recommendations for a successful EU Electrification Action Plan in the areas of heating, transport, demand-side flexibility and industry.

Electrification is a key ingredient of a successful energy transition. How should it look in Europe?

Read our recommendations for heating, transport, demand-side flexibility, and industry to find out! 👇
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Making repair affordable: How to tackle the price of spare parts

🔔 Last chance to attend! 👇 Making repair affordable: How to tackle the price of spare parts. Webinar by ECOS and @r2reurope.bsky.social happening today.

📅 16 April
⌚ 15:00 (CEST)
🎧 Online

✍️ Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

What’s next for ecodesign? A briefing ahead of the first ESPR Working Plan - ECOS Which products will be addressed in the first ESPR Working Plan? What can we expect from new EU ecodesign rules and when? Find out in our Q&A.

What’s next for ecodesign? Find out which product groups will be focused on and when in our Q&A ahead of the first ESPR Working Plan 👇

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2024: Our successes. What difference did we make? Why does it matter? - Right to repair. - Better batteries. - Sustainable fishing gear. - More ecodesign. - Greener public procurement. - Climate neutrality - ECOS Africa office. - Growing impact.

2024 was challenging in many ways – but still a year full of important milestones and steps forward for ambitious environmental protection.

Take a look back with our annual report, as we continue our collective journey towards #sustainability.

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Never beyond repair – How an EU standard drives product repairability - ECOS Register for our online workshop: Never beyond repair - How an EU standard drives product repairability.

Register for our online workshop 📣 Never beyond repair – How an EU standard drives product repairability 👇

📅 3 April 2025
⏰ 11:00-12:45 CEST
🎧 Zoom

Join us to discover how standards can support sustainability and bring us closer to a universal right to repair

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How to decarbonise heating and cooling by 2030: The path to renewable, healthy, and efficient buildings in the EU

Heating and cooling buildings requires a lot of energy.

Around half of all the energy we consume in the EU goes towards it — and most of that is still from polluting fossil fuels 😷

The EU has all it needs to change this. How? 🧵👇

Omnibus proposal major setback for sustainable business Ecopreneur.eu, the European Sustainable Business Federation, strongly opposes the Omnibus Simplification Package published by the European Commission

📢 The European Commission’s #Omnibus package weakens EU sustainability laws, contradicts the Clean Industrial Deal, and fails to simplify. @ecopreneur-eu.bsky.social calls on the EU to simplify, not deregulate! Read our statement: ecopreneur.eu/2025/03/06/o...
#CSRD #CSDDD #EUTaxonomy

Green claims have no place in fossil fuel advertising.

🏭 Fossil fuels are the primary driver of climate change – but these companies continue to make green claims based on side hustles rather than core activities.

Learn more about how the #GreenClaimsDirective can change this: bit.ly/4h7xQOa

2024: our successes. What difference did we make? Why does it matter? Right to repair Better batteries Sustainable fishing gear More ecodesign Greener public procurement Climate neutrality ECOS Africa office Growing impact

2024 was a year of action, impact, and progress for ECOS.

Here's a recap of how we brought meaningful solutions to big environmental challenges ⤵️🧵

Analysis | Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for ecodesign and the next steps for this important EU Regulation.

🗨️ Today we are participating in the #EcodesignForum, where we will discuss the implementation of the EU’s new ecodesign rules #ESPR.

🤝 ECOS bring decades of experience working alongside other stakeholders to develop product requirements.

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#ecodesign #sustainable

What best practices from Africa and Europe are there to tackle #greenwashing?

Join our webinar to find out!

🌳 Co-organised with Association Camerounaise pour le Développement, l’Entraide Sociale et la Protection de l’Environnement
📅 13 March
💬 French/English
➡️ Register: bit.ly/4i661qm

Time to address the #construction sector's waste problem.

The upcoming #CircularEconomyAct is an opportunity to:

✅ Tackle gaps in the #WasteFrameworkDirective
✅ Create a competitive market for secondary construction materials

Joint letter from the recycling industry and NGOs: bit.ly/3QynHiQ

Work Programme 2025 - ECOS In 2025, we will work to create momentum for an ambitious vision, backed with political decisions, allowing for fundamental, systemic changes to the way we consume and produce.

There are no quick fixes for the environmental crisis. It must be tackled with systemic change:

⚡ Clean #energy
🏭 Industrial #decarbonisation
🔄 #CircularEconomy
🔎 Environmental #transparency
🛡️ #Nature protection and restoration

Here's how we do it 👇
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Prevention first: how circularity can put Europe ahead of the game  - META As Europe aims to boost its competitiveness, circularity can unlock unique benefits for both people and businesses, at the lowest environmental cost.

💚Europe can only be truly competitive when its economy is benefiting both people and the planet.

🤔Circular economy can help the EU achieving that goal. But are we on the right track? And what does it take to get there?

🙋Our take: meta.eeb.org/2025/02/20/p... #circulareconomyact #circulareconomy

Joint letter – We need to extend the lifetime of all electronics - ECOS Read the letter here.

When it comes to #electronics, there's one EU policy solution that could make them ALL more sustainable 🥁📢 horizontal ecodesign measures!

Moving slowly from product to product isn't efficient when there's a faster and more effective way forward.

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Blog: 'Ecodesign: The EU’s journey to sustainable products begins now'

Too many products are short-lived, disposable, inefficient, toxic, or unrepairable - but in Europe that's about to change!

🦸 New #ecodesign rules will help to make virtually all physical products in the EU more sustainable.

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Planned obsolescence is bad for consumers and bad for the environment - but many companies still do it.

🖨️ Our member @halteobsolescence.bsky.social has filed a complaint against HP in France for limiting the use of their printer ink cartridges ⤵️ (FR)

UN Plastics Treaty: A defining moment in the global fight against plastic pollution - ECOS What can we expect from INC-5, the final negotiation for a UN Plastics Treaty to end plastic pollution? Read our five essentials for an effective treaty.

Plastic pollution harms us all, and yet it is forecasted to triple by 2060.

Now is our chance to stem the flow ⏰

✅ What are the five essentials for an effective UN #PlasticsTreaty?

Read the details in our blog ⤵️
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Blog - Powering up sustainably: EU proposes new rules on External Power Supplies

Many electronic devices have built-in batteries that must be charged using an external power supply 🔌

The European Commission just published a new draft of #ecodesign rules for these products.

What is good, and what still needs to be improved for sustainability? 👇
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