Carla Coppola

Denmark’s Incoming EU Presidency: A window of opportunity for discussing climate policy in agriculture - IEEP AISBL Denmark’s presidency offers a window of opportunity to discuss a forward-looking EU framework for agricultural emissions. This brief explores the policy options under consideration and the potential enabling conditions for implementation.

🏛️ @eu2025dk.bsky.social starts today!

🌾 It's a key opportunity to strengthen the ongoing #CAP reform dialogue and explore how agriculture can support the EU's climate targets.

📑 Read about the policy options on the table ⤵️

Event | How to reach carbon neutrality? - IEEP AISBL This event, co-organised by the Institute for European Environmental Policy – IEEP and IDDRI think tank, will explore long-term transformations and immediate actions required to achieve carbon neutrality, consistent with the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement and socioeconomic objectives.

📅 Join us on 3 July for this event with @iddri.bsky.social to learn about long-term transformations and immediate actions required to achieve #CarbonNeutrality consistent with the objectives of the #ParisClimateAgreement and socioeconomic objectives 🎯

57% of African population – 751 million people, including nearly 288 million living in extreme poverty – reside in countries that spend more on servicing external debt than on education or healthcare.

Striking and shocking figures...

Today is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 🌍

Every second, we lose land the size of 4 football fields (@UNCCD)

In May 2025, 39% of land in EEA countries faced drought.

See where drought is hitting Europe👉
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#DesertificationAndDroughtDay #EEA #Drought

Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says High-fronted vehicles are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe with the UK an extreme example

The bonnet height of new cars in Europe is rising; and there is currently no legal limit.

A 10cm increase (from 80 to 90) raises the risk of death in a crash by 27% for pedestrians and cyclists. Children are substantially more likely to be killed as pedestrians in collisions compared to adults.

Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones

Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds

“Whether or not States agree on calling it a genocide, what we are facing is severely impacting all life in Gaza, and also threatening human rights in the region, and even globally, due to the aggravation of climate change.”

Unbearable and diabolical in every way

In Italia serve una nuova strategia per il mercato del lavoro.

"Questa strategia non deve guardare indietro, come necessariamente fanno i referendum abrogativi, ma chiedersi come coniugare in maniera seria le tutele in un’economia che ha subito cambiamenti nel corso degli anni."

Brussels hosts Belgium’s 1st Slow Food Market: here’s why you’ll love it! The Marché de la Terre arrives in Brussels: artisanal products, workshops and a locavore dinner on the menu for a day like no other.

On June 22 in Brussels, we'll officially launch Belgium's first #SlowFood Earth Market ! If you're around, mark your calendars & come say hi ! 👋

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It's world #BiodiversityDay🌱💚 ! Today let’s appreciate nature’s contribution and benefits for our societies.

Our recent report analyses current and potential future EU policy targets for biodiversity. Some of our findings:

Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests The destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level ever recorded in 2024, driven by a surge in fires caused by global heating, according to “frightening” new data. From the Brazilian Amazon to the Siberian taiga, Earth’s forests disappeared at a record rate last year, losing an area the size of Italy to agriculture, fires, logging and mining, according to analysis from the University of Maryland hosted on Global Forest Watch. Continue reading...

Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows

Twice the size of Belgium… for comparison

Why do we not see #AirPollution on death certificates, if it causes premature mortality?

Read this by @eea.europa.eu ⤵️‬
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Le plan climat de la Belgique n’en finit pas d’être reporté Promis, juré, la Belgique présentera la version définitive de son plan énergie-climat à la fin du mois de septembre « au grand plus tard », a indiqué la ministre wallonne du Climat Cécile Neven (MR). ...

Belgium missed its deadline to submit its climate plan, already delayed

www.lesoir.be/675053/artic...

Vacancy | Junior Membership officer - IEEP AISBL We are looking for a dedicated and skilled Junior Membership officer starting August, 2025

Join our team 👏

We are recruiting a Junior Membership Officer t... #ThinkSustainableEurope https://ieep.eu/news/vacancy-junior-membership-officer/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Institute%20for%20European%20Environmental%20Policy%20%28IEEP%29

#WeAreHiring #Hiring #GreenJobs

Today is the EU #EarthOvershootDay 🌍🌏🌎

Today, human demand for natural resources and services in the European Union has exceeded what the Earth can regenerate within the year.

🧵 👇 To live within planetary boundaries, we must rethink our:

#MoveTheDate

La resa della Memoria: il 25 Aprile sfregiato in nome della sobrietà e del lutto nazionale - Valigia Blu I cinque giorni di lutto nazionale decisi del governo e l'invito alla "sobrietà" sono diventati un alibi perfetto per (auto)sabotare il 25 aprile.

🧵 La resa della Memoria: il 25 Aprile sfregiato in nome della sobrietà e del lutto nazionale | @matteopascoletti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/25-aprile-lu... via @valigiablu.it

US climate friends, take note: Norway has an established climate model in the CESM ecosystem, both focused and interdisciplinary research centers, good work/life balance, regular national & EU funding calls. And we have mountains. And tacos.

Under the rules, large companies (handling more than 1,500 metric tons of pellets a year) will need to obtain a third-party certificate to prove they are complying. However, smaller firms can submit a self-declaration which "could create a loophole that exempts them from accountability" 👇

Earth Day check-in: Planetary boundaries in peril Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that help regulate a livable planet. Human activities have pushed six of those nine critical Earth systems beyond safe limits, threatening the…

It's Earth day and here's our check in. ✧ ﾟ🌏 · 🌱. 𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋. 🌏⋆⭒˚.

Human activities have pushed six of nine critical planetary boundaries beyond safe limits, threatening the stability of life as we know it.

Mongabay has consistently reported on all nine systems:

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

89% of people worldwide want more to be done by their governments. Research shows that more than 2/3 of those interviewed were willing to give 1% of their income to fight the #ClimateCrisis. However, rich countries were significantly less willing to contribute 1%.

Portrait of Palestinian boy who lost both arms is World Press Photo of the year for 2025 A portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms as a result of an Israeli attack in Gaza has been named World Press Photo of the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Portrait of Palestinian boy who lost both arms is World Press Photo of the year for 2025 apnews.com/article/worl... @apnews.com @worldpressphoto.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography

⏰ LAST DAY

🙋🙋‍♂️ Are you an expert working on either EU or international environmental policy?

Your insights can help us identify pathways for delivering on the #EUGreenDeal objectives 🎯

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Orange and brown gatekeeper butterfly on a bramble leaf

Butterfly populations are crashing. Here are 5 ways to help them:
🌻 grow nectar-rich flowers
🌱 grow caterpillar food plants
🌼 let dandelions grow
🌳 plant a native tree
🍂 have a wild area
More ways to help butterflies and other insects:
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#nature

🙋🙋‍♂️ Are you an expert working on either EU or international environmental policy?

Your insights can help us identify pathways for delivering on the #EUGreenDeal objectives

Take our #GreenDealBarometer survey ⬇️
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Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating – as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’

In a hotter future, we can expect supply chain disruptions triggered by extreme weather events everywhere, and even cold regions will not be spared, because global economies are linked by trade.

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'Expats are affected too': Non-profit workers join national strike "Many European NGO workers are non-Belgian and sometimes feel that whatever the Belgian Government does does not concern them. This is incorrect."

Most workers in European NGOs are employees under Belgian law www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/151...

They are affected by Arizona measures also

First ever #strike and picket Well done
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@corporateeurope.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social

Event | Farming for pollinators: unlocking economic and ecological gains - IEEP AISBL The Institute for Environmental Policy (IEEP), in collaboration with the European Landowners Organisation (ELO), is organising a science-policy conference to explore the crucial yet often overlooked role of pollinators in agriculture.

Can't you make it today to our @safeguard-pollinators.eu 🐝 event?

Join us online and discuss the economic, environmental, and... https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89154796263?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Institute%20for%20European%20Environmental%20Policy%20%28IEEP%29
@eurolandorg

The @eppgroup.bsky.social tonight showed it's not interested in compromise politics but in killing civil society + environmental policies. EC @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu announced #LIFE Programm statement for tomorrow. EPP & @ecrgroup.bsky.social wanted vote abd despite replacing 6 MEPs lost 40:41!

European Climate Risk Assessment for businesses preparing for a resilient and competitive business in 2025 - IEEP AISBL With the recent publication of the European climate risk assessment, the European Environment Agency (EEA) recalled the major risks that climate change (and unsustainable land use and water management) represents, and the necessity to increase the resilience of ecosystems, societies, and economic sectors. The assessment warns that several climate risks have already reached critical levels. If decisive action is not taken now, most climate risks identified could reach critical or catastrophic levels by the end of this century.

The latest @eea.europa.eu European Climate Risk Assessment warns that several climate risks have already hit critical levels and could reach catastrophic levels by the end of this century.

💡 Key takeaways from our event with @envdefensefund.bsky.social, CERAC and Sweco ⤵️