CAN Europe General Assembly October 2011

CAN Europe family photo

Adaptation against the odds

Climate adaptation photo exhibition at Mundo-B, in conjunction with Practical Action, Feburary 2011

CAN Europe Directors Past and Present

CAN Europe Directors past and present

Worst Lobby Awards 2010

CAN Europe staff submit their votes for the Worst Lobby Awards 2010

UN Climate Negotiations

CAN International press conference at UNFCCC in Bonn

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Vacancy: Policy Officer (Full Time)

01 February 2012

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, recognised as Europe's leading network working on climate and energy issues, is currently seeking a highly motivated, dynamic and results-driven Policy Officer to join our team in Brussels. The successful candidate will help in supporting network coordination and advocacy leadership efforts of the CAN-Europe policy team on general and specific issues relating to EU climate and energy policies.

The position will offer the successful candidate an opportunity to be at the centre of the largest movement for global change that will affect people and the planet for centuries to come.

Commission says increased climate action will benefit Europe’s economy and environment

30 January 2012

Today the European Commission published a long-awaited paper that outlines the numerous benefits increased climate action would bring Europe. Analysis of "Options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions: Member State results" finds that increased EU climate ambition will deliver great financial, health and environmental benefits for all member states. The study, which was completed at the request of EU environment ministers, shows that moving beyond 20% emission reductions by the year 2020 is feasible, beneficial and much cheaper than previously thought.

“This study is important because it offers Member States a way to ensure greater stability and resilience against oil price and supply fluctuations, which in turn will create stronger economies and a healthier environment in all of Europe,” said Julia Michalak, EU Climate Policy Officer at CAN Europe.

“The Commission’s findings remove any doubt about the benefits of stronger European-wide climate action,” Michalak continued. “Higher targets will benefit the EU’s citizens and economy as well as poorer countries already experiencing the effects of climate change in other parts of the world.”

CAN Europe urges all 27 EU member states to act on this analysis and support a shift towards a more ambitious target by increasing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources.

NGO Briefing: increased EU climate ambition +impacts on Member States

19 January 2012

This briefing, prepared by Climate Action Network Europe, WWF and Greenpeace, outlines the NGOs’ response and recommendations to this paper.

The European Commission is due to publish a working paper entitled “Analysis of options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions: Member State results”. The latest draft of the paper outlines the costs and benefits for individual EU member states enhancing their climate action to a collective 30 percent emission reduction target for 2020. It concludes that increasing the EU climate ambition will deliver great financial, health and environmental benefits for all member states, including €7bn extra government revenues per year from a reinvigorated European carbon market. It will also propose a series of options to accelerate clean energy investments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).