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.
By using renewable biological resources and alternatives to critical raw materials, the EU Commission hopes its new bioeconomy strategy will chart a route to a more decarbonised economy with less dependence on fossil imports.
The European Parliament today voted to simplify the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a landmark law designed to ensure that products sold in the EU do not contribute to global deforestation.
The European Parliament and Council have provisionally agreed the first ever legislation on the welfare of dogs and cats, set to significantly improve the way the animals are treated when bred, sold or adopted in the EU.
The European Commission has published a legislative act setting up an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme with a view to helping EU member states reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
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.
