Tag: climate targets

• Open letter against international credits in the EU 2040 climate target

  ECOS is among the many voices urging the EU to deliver a truly domestic and ambitious 2040 climate target. Read our open letter - signed alongside a broad coalition of civil society organisations, academics, and businesses - against integrating international credits into the EU 2040 climate target and NDC.

• Biodiversity. Planetary crises. The role of standards. All you need to know for Mother Earth Day

  Around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. 4.7 million hectares of forests are lost every year. 90% of disasters are now classed as weather and climate-related linked to the climate crisis.

• REPORT – Greenwashing, certified? How to ensure new laws and standards do not rubberstamp dubious climate neutrality claims

  Claims of ‘climate neutrality’ have become omnipresent in products and services. But are they credible, and should we believe them? This ECOS report will help policymakers and standardisers make the right choice and ensure that climate neutrality claims become a thing of the past.

• Time to build up ambitions: we need champions for decarbonising European buildings!

  ECOS and 15 other NGOs have signed a letter calling on Energy Ministers of EU Member States and representatives to support a more ambitious EPBD at the Energy Council next 27th of June.