European Policy Overview May 2023

European Policy Overview May 2023

Ostend Declaration Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK signed the Ostend Declaration at a North Sea Summit on the Belgian coast on 24 April, pledging to increase their offshore wind capacity to 300GW by 2050. It...
Bumper sticker campaign in Belgium

Bumper sticker campaign in Belgium

The image here is a copy of the bumper sticker of Grandparents for Climate Belgium (French speaking) for its new campaign in favour of lower speed limits on highways.
European Policy Overview May 2023

European Policy Overview January 2023

At the very end of 2022, the European Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The objective of CBAM is to prevent that the greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts of the EU be offset by...
Join Stop Ecocide International

Join Stop Ecocide International

Proposed action: The Belgian Grandparents pour le Climat invite all fellow activists to join this international campaign. Stop ecocide International argues that unlike suing and fining corporations (who simply budget for this possibility), making ecocide a crime...

Powersaver game

Game playing can lead to lasting behaviour changes. That is the conclusion of a recent PhD study by Jan Dirk Fijnheer at Utrecht University (NL). Fijnheer’s research is based on the Powersaver Game: an online game that challenges households to reduce their energy...