3rd MAY is EU Overshoot day – “Unsustainable and irresponsible”
03.05.2024
On this occasion, 317 civil society organisations are in an open letter calling on the heads of states and governments, the Presidents of the EU Commission, Council and Parliament, as well as Members of the EU Parliament to make a political commitment to work towards a climate-neutral, zero-pollution, and nature-positive economy. This follows the unprecedented and disturbing amount of backtracking from politicians in recent months, as green policies are being instrumentalised for short-term electoral gains and populism.
Specifically, civil society calls for:
- Deepening and accelerating the Green Deal, by fully implementing recently agreed goals and addressing ambition gaps on nature, climate as well as pollution
- Radically increasing public climate, environment and social investments
- Strengthening EU governance, democracy and the effective participation of civil society
In the upcoming European Elections, citizens will have to make an important choice that will affect their lives for years to come. To ensure they can make an informed decision, NGOs have prepared:
- A European Parliament scoreboard that shows how parties across the political spectrum have addressed the planetary ecological crises in their voting behaviour of the past EU term. https://caneurope.org/eu-parliament-scoreboard-2024/
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