Some of Europe’s largest networks of green groups [1] are joining forces to demand an end to fast fashion in the textile industry, one of the world’s largest industrial polluters. [2] As part of the Wardrobe Change campaign, NGOs are calling for new policies to stop runaway overproduction of textiles. Proposed measures include minimum standards […]
Post Type Archives: News & Events
Joint position: The Alliance for Flame Retardant Free Furniture calls for harmonising flammability requirements for furniture in Europe via upcoming Sustainable Products Initiative
The Alliance calls on the EU institutions and Member States to adopt a similar approach towards harmonising existing flammability standards and requirements across Europe, using smoulder ignition tests (such as cigarette test EN 1021/1) instead of open flame tests as a basis to prove compliance, whenever flammability requirements are already in place at national level. […]
ECOS Newsletter – June 2021
‘Flemish cities hope to set an example and motivate others to tackle the heating problem head on’ – interview with Bond Beter Leefmilieu
A complete phase-out of fossil fuel heating in Flemish homes by 2050: a simple yet very ambitious promise made by eight cities in March 2021. Beersel, Bruges, Ghent, Kortrijk, Leuven, Mechelen, Ostend, and Turnhout, with more than 780,000 inhabitants, all demand support and coordinated action from the Flemish authorities in order to make home heating […]
Deadline extended! ECOS is hiring – Programme Manager – Buildings & construction
Deadline: 20 June 2021 COB ECOS is an international NGO with a network of members and experts advocating for environmentally friendly technical standards, policies and laws. We ensure the environmental voice is heard when they are developed and drive change by providing expertise to policymakers and industry players, leading to the implementation of strong environmental […]
Definitions for recycled plastics must be legally binding and decided democratically, not set by companies – ECOS letter to European Commission
There is still time: the European Commission plans to issue a standardisation request to CEN and CENELEC in September 2021, aiming to set definitions, test and calculation methods for a wide range of terms regarding plastics recycling and recycled plastics. This will impact a number of crucial sectors such as packaging, buildings and construction, electronics, […]
European Commission commits to higher transparency in taxonomy decision-making, ECOS resumes work in official advisory group
ECOS, WWF, Transport & Environment, BirdLife, and BEUC will return to the Platform on Sustainable Finance, the expert group advising the European Commission on the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities, a list of economic activities to be considered as sustainable. Following calls by the Platform, the European Commission committed to higher transparency in the adoption […]
Definitions for recycled plastics must be legally binding and decided democratically, not set by companies – NGOs tell European Commission
The European Commission must suspend the standardisation request process for plastics recycling. The process needs to be put on hold until the revision of the essential requirements for packaging waste is decided by democratically elected policymakers in the European Parliament and the EU Council, NGOs argue in a letter sent today to European Commission officials in DG GROW […]
European businesses, investors, regions, cities and NGOs spell out their expectations from the ‘Fit for 55’ Package
Signed by 50 organisations, the joint letter highlights that “If the European Green Deal is the EU’s growth strategy, the new climate and energy legislation should be its engine”. Based on this principle, the letter calls upon the EU Heads of State to further step up the EU’s climate action by expanding the scope of […]
