Climate Brussels e-News 28.04.22
True cost of Big Oil’s profits: Trillions in unpaid health and environmental costs
BP, Eni, Repsol, Shell, and TotalEnergies have paid back just 5% of the €13 trillion in societal and environmental debt. Europe’s five biggest oil majors pocketed €47 billion – mostly in profit for shareholders and management – in 2021 taking their total profits to €850 billion since 1993, a new stu…
2 Years On: Counting the Gains of Climate Change Action in Burundi and Rwanda
By Lewis Kihumba From 2017-2020, BirdLife International carried out a project to help build the resilience of people, biodiversity and land against climate change resilient in the two countries. While the project may have drawn to a close, its legacy is long‑lasting... MpawenimanaKidaga is all smile…
European organic movement calls for a systemic approach to carbon farming recognising the multiple benefits of organic farming for climate and the environment
BRUSSELS, 27 APRIL 2022 – As carbon farming is a current priority on the EU agenda when it comes to climate change mitigation in agriculture, IFOAM Organics Europe urges in their new position paper the need for a holistic and multi-dimensional approach to carbon farming focussing not only on the amo…