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@eeb.org🏢 How can apartment blocks with centralised heating be decarbonised through electrification?
Webinar for policy officers working on heating & cooling.
Practical insights into the latest technologies and proven solutions.
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@eeb.orgMeanwhile, the #EUEcolabel remains a powerful tool to guide consumers and help the companies offering the greenest products to stand out🌼
And the good news is: the label keeps growing, with the highest level of products and licenses ever recorded📈
Read on: meta.eeb.org/2026/10/08/c... @beuc.eu
@eeb.orgCan you tell sustainable products from #greenwashing? New EU rules are making it easier, and so is the #EUEcolabel!
The Empowering Consumers Directive bans some misleading marketing tactics and raises the bar for green labels.
Now we need governments to enforce it swiftly. 🧵👇
@eeb.orgThe @ec.europa.eu must close this gap and protect public health and the environment by ensuring cosmetics are part of the scope.
📄 Read our joint letter demanding that the rules apply in practice, not just on paper: eeb.org/en/library/8... @beuc.eu @ecos.ngo @umwelthilfe.bsky.social
@eeb.orgWe have pushed for real accountability for years, including for mercury-added skin-lightening creams, which are still being sold across the EU, often by repeat offenders. Last year, a EU-wide customs operation checked around 6,000 cosmetics bought online from outside the EU: 65% were non-compliant.
@eeb.orgMercury in your face cream? Yes, it still happens, and EU rules must catch up. The European Product Act has been postponed, but a leaked draft points to important progress in closing a major accountability gap: when online marketplaces sell illegal products from outside the EU, who is responsible?
@eeb.orgEEB Leaders Declaration:
eeb.org/en/library/t...
Updated EEB Long-Term Strategy 2026–2030:
eeb.org/en/library/u...
@eeb.orgFor a stronger network in a changing Europe 🌍 Last week, we brought together 25+ EEB Leaders in Brussels for our first-ever EEB Leaders Meeting. Across two days, leaders exchanged experiences, discussed challenges facing our movement and explored how we can work together more effectively.
@eeb.orgOpinion ➡️ euobserver.com/240266/europ...
@eeb.org380,000 children in EU are exposed to dangerous levels of pesticides.
Yet the EU is proposing to make approvals for many pesticide substances "indefinite"🚨
Children deserve protection, not deregulation ⚠️🧒
Full piece published today by EEB & Child Rights International Network in @euobserver.com ⤵️
@eeb.orgCriticality should help secure what society needs – not become a shield for existing production or a back door to weakening the policies driving the transition.
#ToxicFreeFuture #CriticalChemicalsAlliance
Media briefing: eeb.org/en/library/m...
Policy briefing eeb.org/en/library/e...
@eeb.orgThe key points behind our decision:
Fundamental shortcomings in governance and methodology could pave the way for weakening key EU health, environmental and climate safeguards.
🛡️ Protecting the status quo
⚠️ A push for deregulation
🏭 Industry in the driving seat
@eeb.org🚨 The EEB is withdrawing from the Critical Chemicals Alliance (CCA) ahead of its 8 October General Assembly EEB joined with a simple principle: “critical” should mean securing what people and the environment need – not protecting whatever Europe produces today Here’s why 🧵�
@eeb.orgMore than 900,000 people across Europe have already signed the #HandsOffNature petition calling on EU governments to protect our nature laws.
📢 Add your voice: tell your policy-makers to prioritise our health and environmental protections over permitting shortcuts: handsoffnature.eu
@eeb.org🚨Today, EU ambassadors approved the Council’s position on speeding up environmental assessments. Fast-tracking permits for “strategic” projects risks rushed assessments and public consultation. Now it's time for MEPs to stand up for environmental rules that protect people, communities and nature.
@eeb.org🌱 Done right, Green Public Procurement can create markets for clean steel and concrete, cut fossil fuel dependence and drive innovation.
Our joint roadmap with @natuurenmilieu.nl, @ecodes.bsky.social and Inštitút cirkulárnej ekonomiky, sets out practical 8-steps to do this: eeb.org/en/library/g...
@eeb.org🏗️ Europe’s clean industrial transition needs a serious push. The Commission’s new public procurement rules put climate and environmental goals more firmly on the agenda. That’s a step forward, but green procurement must be binding and ambitious enough to avoid a race to the bottom.
@eeb.orgBeyond the Arctic, polluter pressure are pushing for laws to be weakened to extract and profit.
These are changes that will take away our fresh air, clean water, and thriving nature.
Help us resist now, sign the Hands Off Nature petition: handsoffnature.eu#take-action
@eeb.orgThe answer to Europe’s energy needs isn’t more #FossilFuels, especially projects that lock us in for decades more without solving today's problems.
It’s more #renewables everywhere, less energy waste, better-insulated homes, less car dependency and renewable heating now!
@eeb.org🚨 Good news: the EU’s Arctic drilling ban is staying! ❄️✊
Despite pressure from Norway and fossil fuel interests, the EU Commission says its position on new Arctic oil and gas drilling remains unchanged.
This follows as thousands of people spoke up 💚 #peoplepower
