Environment policy in the European Union
As catastrophic wildfires sweep across Southern Europe, WWF warns that the EU is sleepwalking into a permanent wildfire crisis while simultaneously weakening key environmental protections that help safeguard people, economies and nature from climate impacts.
The EU Parliament and Council gave the final green light to amendments to the EU’s deforestation law which seeks to fight climate change and biodiversity loss by ensuring products sold in the EU are not sourced from deforested land.
“The transition to clean corporate fleets must be an opportunity for SMEs, not a constraint that limits their ability to operate, invest and grow.”
A new NGO-led evaluation finds that implementation of the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) is underway in most Member States, marking a crucial first step towards repairing Europe’s degraded ecosystems.
The Commission has proposed measures to close loopholes to prevent circumvention of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism’s (CBAM), in response to feedback received from industry.
With the publication of the “automotive package”, the European Commission has made a first step to creating a more pragmatic and flexible pathway to align decarbonisation with competitiveness and resilience objectives.
The European Commission has launched the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus package, squeezing in yet another proposal that weakens environmental protections.
