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Despite 2024’s ‘greenlash’, the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here’s how. Björn Bremer, Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2024)
- The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres, BBC News (Nov 04, 2024)
- 'We are in danger' - Spanish anti-tourism spills into winter season, BBC News (Oct 26, 2024)
- ‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2024)
- The Bioregional Pulse #1, bioregionalweavinglabs.substack.com (Oct 04, 2024) — Weaving together stories of active hope from bioregional changemakers
- ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2024)
- Don’t fear the boomers! How Poland is celebrating its old people – and making life better for every age, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2024)
- The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass legislation making it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — this includes petrol and diesel, aviation and cruise ships
- Campaigners sue EU over ‘grossly inadequate’ 2030 climate targets, theguardian.com (Aug 27, 2024)
- Madrid’s summers can be brutally hot. So why are so many of our trees being chopped down? Felicity Hughes, theguardian.com (Aug 15, 2024)
- Barcelona protests: holiday hotspots need fairer tourism for local communities, theconversation.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- ‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?, theguardian.com (Aug 02, 2024)
- There is a rage for urban swimming in Europe right now - in the Seine for the French Olympics, but in Copenhagen, Glasgow and London too, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2024)
- How Germany’s ‘Orchestra of Change’ Inspires Action, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 11, 2024)
- ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down, theguardian.com (Jul 04, 2024)
- ‘My escape is going north’: heatwaves begin to drive tourists in Europe to cool climes, theguardian.com (Jul 02, 2024)
- EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2024)
- Cars Are Slowing Down in European Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 11, 2024)
- Activists sue Russia over ‘weak’ climate policy, theguardian.com (May 16, 2024)
- German government must amend climate plan, court rules, dw.com (May 16, 2024)
- Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say, theguardian.com (May 15, 2024)
- ‘We can live again’: Belgian nursing home residents hit the nightclubs, theguardian.com (May 02, 2024)
- Analysis of the adopted Directive on Common Rules Promoting the Repair of Goods, repair.eu (Apr 23, 2024) — EU campaigning pays off with promising new repair rules, but we need many more products to be covered
- Thousands rally in Spain's Canary Islands against mass tourism, BBC News (Apr 20, 2024)
- The "Lebensmittepunkte" - or Berlin's Food Hubs - are a perfect and sustainable fit for the idea of the fifteen-minute city, Daily Alternative (Apr 15, 2024)
- Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2024)
- EU institutions commit to boost cycling across Europe, transport.ec.europa.eu (Apr 03, 2024)
- Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe, theguardian.com (Mar 27, 2024)
- The city where ‘the future has already arrived’, positive.news (Mar 18, 2024)
- Paris to showcase what a real bicycle city looks like during Summer Olympics, momentummag.com (Mar 13, 2024)
- Why Europe is dismantling its dams, BBC Future (Mar 05, 2024)
- European nations must end repression of peaceful climate protest, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- How Greenland’s tourism industry lobbied for a green tax, and won, positive.news (Feb 20, 2024)
- Hector Bellerin at Real Betis: Championing sustainability and tackling social issues, BBC News (Feb 16, 2024)
- What will Spain look like when it runs out of water? Barcelona is giving us a glimpse, María Ramírez, theguardian.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- France halts €100-a-month electric car leasing scheme after huge demand, theguardian.com (Feb 14, 2024)
- Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs, theguardian.com (Feb 04, 2024)
- Norway has made a vital climate leap. This is how Britain can do the same, Tessa Khan, theguardian.com (Jan 31, 2024)
- A Surprising Way to Stop Bullying, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 08, 2024)
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- World's tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning, BBC News (Dec 28, 2023)
- Spanish minister hails deal to save Andalucía wetlands as a model for green transition, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- ‘We have a responsibility’: the older women suing Switzerland to demand climate action, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- ‘People are proud of this green spirit of ours’: how a small Spanish city rejected cars, theguardian.com (Dec 20, 2023)
- How reindeer help fight climate change, BBC Future (Dec 19, 2023)
- Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car, theguardian.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- Ireland could give nature constitutional rights, BBC News (Dec 16, 2023)
- How the Netherlands built a thriving circular economy, theprogressplaybook.com (Dec 13, 2023)
- Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution, theguardian.com (Dec 08, 2023)
- ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste, theguardian.com (Dec 07, 2023)
- Belgian court orders 55% emissions cut from 1990 levels, theguardian.com (Dec 01, 2023)
- Paris puts people and bicycles at the heart of ambitious new climate plan, momentummag.com (Nov 29, 2023)
- Boy tells TDs and senators: 'We need more trains now', rte.ie (Nov 21, 2023)
- Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes, theguardian.com (Nov 20, 2023)
- EU criminalises environmental damage ‘comparable to ecocide’, theguardian.com (Nov 17, 2023)
- How forest schools boost children's immune systems, BBC Future (Nov 01, 2023)
- Land use plan needed to combat climate change on ‘different scale’ - Taoiseach, irishtimes.com (Oct 25, 2023)
- Broad support for repair at the EU Parliament – will the Council keep up with the ambition?, repair.eu (Oct 25, 2023) — “We applaud the huge improvements introduced by the IMCO Committee to ensure the affordability of repair, the ban of unfair anti-repair practices and the promotion of broad repair options for consumers. We now urge the European Council and Member States Ministries not to let their citizens down. They have been demanding the right to repair what they own for years and this is the time to make it happen.” Cristina Ganapini, Coordinator of the Right to Repair Europe coalition
- From grey to green: the plan to turn Paris’s zinc rooftops into gardens, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2023)
- The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world, theguardian.com (Oct 18, 2023)
- Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain, news.mongabay.com (Oct 17, 2023) — Local farmers in Southeastern Spain countering desertification with regenerative agriculture
- Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
- Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2023)
- Berliners rave against motorway extension threatening cultural venues, bbc.co.uk (Sep 03, 2023)
- The World’s Therapists Are Talking to Ukraine, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 24, 2023)
- Welcome to the world’s first zero-waste island, positive.news (Aug 21, 2023)
- Many global corporations will soon have to police up and down their supply chains as EU human rights ‘due diligence’ law nears enactment, theconversation.com (Aug 03, 2023)
- Mon dieu, France invests cool $2 billion to promote cycling, momentummag.com (May 26, 2023)
- Talking robots, urban bogs and free bikes: inside Europe’s ‘green capital’, Positive News (May 02, 2023)
- Not yet accessible, affordable nor mainstream: campaigners tighten the screw on new EU Right to Repair proposal, repair.eu (Mar 22, 2023)
- ‘Historic moment’ for nature as Europe’s first wild river national park announced in Albania, The Guardian (Mar 15, 2023)
- Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests – here’s how to bring them back, The Conversation (Feb 24, 2023)
- ‘We’ve come so far’: how one village rose from the ashes of a wildfire, Positive News (Feb 24, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- Brussels launches permanent citizens’ assembly on climate, knoca.eu (Nov 17, 2022)
- Portugal: Accelerate rights-based climate and environmental action, says UN expert, ohchr.org (Sep 27, 2022) — Portuguese youth are among the most concerned and outspoken in the world about the climate crisis. “To fulfil their rights, the government must give them a seat at the table, listen to their concerns and act upon their recommendations.”
- Energy citizenship: Europe’s communities forging a low-carbon future, The Guardian (Sep 03, 2022)
- Green Deal: pioneering proposals to restore Europe's nature by 2050 and halve pesticide use by 2030, ec.europa.eu (Jun 22, 2022)
- Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics, The Conversation (May 23, 2022)
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