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Press Release - EU cooks the books on climate spending

Wed, 12/02/2020
New study finds that the EU’s flagship policy for climate spending, the Common Agriculture Policy, is based on dubious accounting.
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Fish Tales - Episode 2: Şevket from Turkey

Fish Tales – Episode 2: Şevket from Turkey

Wed, 05/02/2020
«My name is Şevket. I live in Turkey.
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Ocean Week 2020 - Brussels

Fri, 17/01/2020
Ocean Week 2020 - seven days of events, discussions and activities in Brussels - puts the spotlight on the huge threats faced by marine species and habitats while offering real solutions on how to solve them. We need thriving biodiversity in our oceans to support life on earth.
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Bringing back nature to the EU in the post-2020 Biodiversity Strategy

Fri, 17/01/2020
The rewilding of European ecosystems can help to tackle both the current climate and biodiversity emergencies. In a policy brief published today, a coalition of five organisations call on the European Commission to prioritise nature recovery in the EU Biodiversity Strategy post-2020.
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The EU Green Deal is not the real deal we so desperately need

Thu, 12/12/2019
The brush strokes of the von der Leyen/Timmermans EU Green Deal are starting to come into focus – but only in the broadest way – there is no pointillisme on the canvas yet...
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EU Green Deal - good for climate, bad for biodiversity

Wed, 11/12/2019
Today, the European Commission announced their highly anticipated European Green Deal. The first of its kind in EU history, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised to deliver the Green deal in her first 100 days in office.
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The Paris Agreement - without nature, a dead end path?

Wed, 11/12/2019
Madrid 10/12/2019 – Coinciding with the annual Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP25, and to inform the development of the upcoming European Green Deal and Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, BirdLife is taking action...
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Will the Green Deal be a good deal for nature?

Tue, 03/12/2019
The newly appointed European Commission has already done what no Commission has done
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The rare endemic Orjen Iris (Iris orjenii) ©Mihailo Jovićević

Protecting rare plant species on Orjen Mountain

Mon, 11/11/2019

Located within the Mediterranean basin, Orjen Mountain is considered an internationally

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