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    		<title>Over 200 organizations have urged Ursula von der Leyen to set out a definitive roadmap for leaving fossil fuels dependence.</title>
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    		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eva Riemer]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[by Eva Riemer In September, European Commission President von der Leyen will give her State of the European Union address. Ahead of this event, the EGC along with over 200 other organizations, have signed the following joint letter, urging her to chart a new, sustainable course for Europe You can find the letter, including the [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wim Aerts]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[by Wim Aerts As of 20 August 2026, every working day, two brightly dressed Grandparents stroll through Brussels with a pimped-up pram. Climate activists have been warning for decades about heat drones, droughts, torrential downpours, natural disasters and other calamities that we can prevent or mitigate through appropriate climate measures. Yet they were dismissed as [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<title>We Are Dying in Silence &#8230; and No One Is Talking about it</title>
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    		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Godela von Kirchbach and Eva Riemer]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[by Godela von Kirchbach and Eva Riemer, co-chairs of EGC This Statement has been sent to the Commissioner for Climate, Teresa Ribera, and the General Secretariat of the EU on August 20, 2026. As Europe reels from one heatwave to the next, people are dying. Not spectacularly, not visibly — but alone, in overheated homes, [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<title>Our Grandchildren’s Climate UK: News of things to come</title>
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    		<description><![CDATA[By Sigurd Reimers The past year we have rallied, marched and lobbied around the issues of free speech and the power of the far right, on one occasion with half a million other protesters in London. This autumn we are planning to be involved in a number of international events that could be of interest [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<title>Answer from the European Commission to our Letter: &#8220;EU’s Arctic strategy will be part of our legacy&#8221;</title>
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    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hugo Swinnen]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[On July 3rd our co-chairs sent a letter to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and several Commissioners concerning EU’s Arctic strategy. Here is the answer from the Commission: Dear Ms.&nbsp;Godela von Kirchbach, dear Ms. Eva Riemer, Thank you for your e-mail of 2 July 2026 on behalf of the&nbsp;European Grandparents for Climate and [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<title>EU’s Arctic strategy will be part of our legacy</title>
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    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Godela von Kirchbach and Eva Riemer, Co-chairs]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[By Godela von Kirchbach and Eva Riemer, Co-chairs Dear President Ursula von der Leyen, Commissioner Costas Kadis, Commissioner Joseph Síkela, Commissioner Dan Jørgensen, Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, and Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera, The European Grandparents for Climate have noticed that, on the background of the Hormuz Strait crisis and facing an oil and gas supply disruption [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<title>Linking our national activities to the European level</title>
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    		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bolette Brødsgaard]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[By Bolette Brødsgaard Just before the summer holidays the Danish Grandparents for Climate met at the EU house in Copenhagen. The purpose was to hear about the functioning of the EU and the how the climate issues are dealt with within the EU. It was very interesting and opened our eyes to the differences in [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<title>Norway is proposing to ban the use of fossil gas in homes, commercial premises and agricultural buildings from 2028</title>
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    		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Petter Wiberg]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[By Petter Wiberg The Norwegian government is proposing to ban the use of fossil gas in homes, commercial premises and agricultural buildings from 2028. Such a ban would reduce Norway&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions and help the country achieve its climate targets. &#8220;In the government&#8217;s plan for Norway, we state that we will meet our climate [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<title>The more we are, the stronger our voice!</title>
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    		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eva Riemer]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[Two years after we were officially registered as an association, EGC has been accepted as a member of EEB and CAN Europe. The EGC joined the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) In May 2026, the EGC was accepted as a full member of the EEB, Europe&#8217;s largest network of environmental organizations represented in 42 countries. The [&hellip;]]]></description>
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    		<title>A slide away from better regulation, not progress towards it</title>
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    		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
    		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Godela von Kirchbach and Eva Riemer]]></dc:creator>
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    		<description><![CDATA[Dear President von der Leyen, dear Commissioners, We are writing to set out civil society’s concerns regarding the proposals to change the existing Better Regulation guidelines, and on other proposals in your communication dubbed “A Simpler, Clearer, and Better Enforced EU Rulebook.” The undersigned organisations believe, that the Commission is now taking steps that are [&hellip;]]]></description>
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