Environment policy in the European Union
Today, Member States backed the EU Budget (MFF) Performance Regulation, sending a positive signal for stronger climate and environmental spending, by defining a horizontal framework for how such spending is tracked and applying environmental safeguards across the budget.
Countries meeting at COP30 approved a set of modest actions, including a decision to implement a just transition mechanism.
The European Commission’s proposal to revise the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), unveiled today, risks weakening the foundations of sustainable and transition finance and undermining efforts to align investments with the EU’s climate and environmental objectives.
The EU Commission has proposed a set of amendments to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the EU’s transparency framework for financial products integrating environmental or social aims.
The European Parliament has turned its back on climate and nature, people, and businesses, by effectively dismantling the EU’s flagship corporate sustainability laws, all in the name of ‘simplification’.
Worsening floods, droughts, wildfires, and storms, combined with the loss of natural defences such as forests and wetlands, are making insurance increasingly inaccessible across Europe.
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