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European Union

500+ Scientists Demand Stop to Tree Burning as Climate Solution

EON's biofuel power station in Lockerbie, Scotland with timber supplies. The power station is fueled 100% by wood sourced from local woodlands.

As Kerry Touts US Commitment to Climate Diplomacy, Biden Urged to Follow EU Lead by Ending Dirty Energy Subsidies

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Activists rally on January 19, 2021 in New York City to demand that U.S. President Joe Biden take immediate executive action to "Build Back Fossil Free." (Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Biden should act boldly on his campaign commitments to end finance for dirty energy projects."

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'Deeply Alarming': AstraZeneca Charging South Africa More Than Double What Europeans Pay for Covid-19 Vaccine

Jon Queally, staff writer

"This is the problem when you have essential medicines in the hands of big...

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EU Ramps Up Fight Against Pollution With Ban on Plastic Waste Exports to Poorer Countries

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A volunteer removes plastic bottles and other trash polluting Ruaka River in Nairobi, Kenya. An increasing production of single-use plastics for beverage and other uses has become a nightmare in solid waste management in the country. (Photo: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"This is an important milestone in fighting plastic pollution, transitioning...

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A Syrian refugee walks near a camp outside Qah, Idlib province, on October 28, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad al-Atrash/AFP/Getty Images)

By Rejecting WTO Drug Patent Waivers Amid Pandemic, Richest Nations Put Big Pharma Profits Before Health of Billions

Climate activists staged a protest outside the European Central Bank headquarters demanding that the ECB stop fueling the climate crisis by supporting fossil fuel companies on October 21, 2020. (Photo: Koala Kollektiv)

'Stop Financing Climate-Wrecking Companies': Campaigners Light Earth on Fire Outside European Central Bank HQ

Scientists Warn 2020 on Pace to Be Hottest Year Ever as September Heat Smashes Previous Record

placard reads: Democracy depends on equal access to information to all

'Huge Victory for Net Neutrality': Top EU Court Rebuffs Zero-Rating Schemes

Water vapor rises from the cooling towers of the Jänschwalde lignite-fired power plant of Lausitzer Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG) on August 19, 2020 in Peitz, Germany. (Photo: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Covid-19 Pandemic Is 'Yet Another Wake-Up Call': 1 in 8 Deaths Across EU Tied to Environmental Pollution

A house burns while flames threaten other homes in Mega Fundeira village, near Picha, in Leiria district, Portugal on June 20, 2017 (Photo: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Portuguese Youth File 'Unprecedented' Climate Lawsuit Against 33 European Countries

British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca will supply the European Union with up to 400 doses of a still-in-development Covid-19 vaccine, officials announced in August. (Photo: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)

As AstraZeneca Signs Deal With EU, Critics Warn Big Pharma Push for Covid Vaccine Liability Protections a 'Dangerous Precedent'

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg joined about 100 Fridays for Future strikers in Berlin on August 21, 2020. (Photo: Greta Thunberg/Instagram)

"We're Back": Greta Thunberg Kicks Off Third Year of Fridays for Future Protests in Germany After Meeting With Merkel

Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg takes part in a "Fridays for Future" demonstration in Hamburg on February 21, 2020. (Photo: Christian Charisius/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg and Fellow Activists Decry 'Political Inaction' on Climate Crisis After Two Years of School Strikes

'Go Away! Go Away!' Factory Workers Heckle Belarusian Strongman as Nationwide General Strike Kicks Off

'This Is Not Frugal. This Is Stupid': EU's $2.1 Trillion Coronavirus Deal Falls Short on Demand for Just, Green Recovery

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who sparked the global Fridays for Future movement, joined weekly protests in Turin, Italy on Dec. 13, 2019. (Photo: Greta Thunberg/Twitter)

Thousands Join Greta Thunberg in Letter Telling EU and Global Leaders It's Time to #FaceTheClimateEmergency

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Never Forget: Grandson of Auschwitz Commandant Fights For A Nazi-Free Europe

With upcoming elections in a Europe beset by rising neo-Nazism, a new campaign by Swedish Social Democrats against the resurgence has a high-profile leader: Rainer Hoess, 48, the grandson of infamous Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, who presided over the murder of a million Jews and thousands of others. Hoess has spent years speaking to German schoolchildren about a Nazi influence growing now, as then, because "the social safety nets have been torn, and people are left behind...Hopelessness...

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Oxfam America

Climate National Action Plans "Appalling and Irresponsible"

Global Justice Now

EU-UK Vaccine Dispute Will Be 'First of Many' Unless Patents Suspended, Say Campaigners

Oil Change International

EU Foreign Ministers Commit to Push for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Finance; Pressure Builds on United States to Follow Suit

350.org

Activists Call on Central Banks and G20 Governments to Use Public Money for a #JustRecovery

ACLU

Top European Court Invalidates U.S.–E.U. Data-Transfer Agreement

Greenpeace

ECB Injects Over €7 Billion Into Fossil Fuels Since Start of COVID-19 Crisis

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Trita Parsi

Iran's Refusal to Meet Not Surprising

Stephen Cockburn

Big Pharma Must Share Their Vaccine Knowledge and Technology With the World—Now

Andy Rowell

It's Time for Biden to Join With the EU's Mission to Phase-Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Juan Cole

President Biden, the US Is Capable of This Too: Europe Generates More Electricity With Renewables Than Fossil Fuels for First Time

Gwynne Dyer

The European Union: Free at Last

Marie-Christine Ghreichi

What New Institutions Do We Need for an International Green New Deal To Be Feasible

Sarah Lazare

"Colonizing the Atmosphere": How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis

Lisa Mullenneaux

The Raft of the Medusa

Juliet Ferguson

Europe’s Love Affair with Fossil Fuels

Shefali Sharma

Public Money to Plunder the Planet: Development Banks Fund Big Meat and Dairy