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...
A Successful Norwegian campaign

A Successful Norwegian campaign

The Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has been under considerable pressure throughout 2022 to reconsider its plans to open a new huge oilfield close to the Arctic ice sheet. A unified Norwegian environmental movement, together with several of the youth wings of the...
Climate exhibition in libraries – Belgium

Climate exhibition in libraries – Belgium

Limburg, the easternmost province of Flanders, is the cradle of our traveling climate exhibition: Leven op aarde redden nu het nog kan (Saving life on earth while we still can). The project was carried out in close co-operation with the United Nations Regional...
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...