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📢 Campaign for real climate solutions & real emissions cuts
✊ Supported by 200+ NGOs, networks, groups & activists in Europe & beyond

👉 https://www.realzeroeurope.org/
🔴 Once again, a huge number of fossil fuel lobbyists are participating in climate talks.

A new analysis from #KickBigPollutersOut found that more than 1,600 fossil-fuel lobbyists have been granted access to #COP30 👇
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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🚨 NEW: More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists on the ground in Brazil for U.N. climate talks.

The Philippines is facing devastating typhoons. Jamaica is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. But it’s #BigPolluters that have direct access to #COP30.

kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all COP30 delegations except Brazil" - via @ninalakhani.bsky.social in @theguardian.com

Time to kick them out? ⏰

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🔴 A Climate Law for Polluters, Confirmed.

Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action.

Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters.

Read our statement 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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‪This morning, EU environment ministers meet to agree a way forward for the Climate Law🌍 ...but leaked drafts show plans to weaken the 2040 target of slashing emissions by 90% if it is hurting industry "competitiveness" 🏭

Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
❌ We can’t solve the climate crisis with the same logic that created it.

#NetZero keeps promising future fixes while allowing pollution to continue today.

Carbon offsets and carbon removals let polluters buy time, protecting the fossil fuel industry’s license to operate — not people or the planet👇
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Net Zero ≠ Real Climate Action

📢 Across Europe, campaigners are calling out the failures of the net-zero agenda — and demanding a Real Zero approach instead.

👉 Real Zero means cutting emissions at the source, ending fossil fuels, and investing in real climate solutions.

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October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🤔 Wondering how to recognise a false solution when you see one?

This time in our Pulling Back the Curtain webinar series, we’ll explore some of the most common so-called land-based solutions—like carbon and #biodiversity offsets, #carbonfarming, and #biochar.

👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🤔 Wondering how to recognise a false solution when you see one?

This time in our Pulling Back the Curtain webinar series, we’ll explore some of the most common so-called land-based solutions—like carbon and #biodiversity offsets, #carbonfarming, and #biochar.

👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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#Geoengineering is being sold as a climate “plan B.”
🚫 It’s a #biodiversity death sentence.

Our new blog breaks down why these unproven, massive-scale tech interventions—from spraying aerosols to dumping biomass in the deep sea—will accelerate ecological collapse, not prevent it.
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Join the next session in our webinar series!

These sessions unpack some of the most common #FalseSolutions to the climate crisis, exploring the risks they pose & empowering NGOs and activists to challenge them.

🗓️ Monday, 13 October 2025
🕒 15–17 CEST

Sing up now👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🔴 A new study shows the system is structured so that truly independent, unbiased audits are basically impossible.

👉 The “independent” auditors tasked with validating credit claims are hired by the project developers themselves, creating a built-in conflict of interest.

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September 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Today the Commission closes its consultation on ‘CO2 infrastructure & markets’ – a fossil fuel industry stitch up full of deregulation that seeks to entrench carbon capture by building costly and dangerous CO2 pipelines.

Read more on Deregulation Watch:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
👉 In July, the European Commission proposed a new 2040 climate target – 90% emissions reduction vs. 1990 levels.

But behind the big headline lies a dangerous loophole.

By relying on international #CarbonCredits & unproven #CarbonRemovals, the proposal risks becoming a free pass for polluters 👇
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September 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🔴 New research from @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social reveals once again that #CarbonOffsets are ineffective and prone to failure.

The voluntary carbon market (#VCM) is sold as a “golden ticket” to net zero… but it’s just a license for polluters to keep polluting

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August 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🌱 Nature offsets, just like carbon offsets, are not a real solution to the climate & biodiversity crises we're facing.

❌ They risk harming the environment instead of protecting it, while allowing business as usual to continue & gambling with our future 👇
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EU’s roadmap for #naturecredits confirms the fears we expressed about the leaked version. We understand that #naturecredits will most likely be used as international compliance offsets. 1/3
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August 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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EU’s nature credits? A roadmap to greenwashing.

In the words of @claradb.bsky.social, "a cover for inaction, a greenwashing shortcut that allows corporations to keep destroying nature as long as they pay for it".

Read our full reaction & short analysis 👇 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...
EU’s nature credits: a roadmap to greenwashing
The European Commission today published its Roadmap for Nature Credits, laying the ground for a new market that would turn biodiversity into a financial instrument. Friends of the Earth Europe alerts ...
friendsoftheearth.eu
July 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🚨 This loophole relies on a failed approach: letting polluting industries buy offset credits from outside Europe.

Each credit = one tonne of CO2 that polluting industries can emit.

The result? Delayed #ClimateAction and more emissions.
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1/2 What does the EU's #2040 climate target loophole mean in reality?

The @oekoinstitut.bsky.social shows that using international carbon offsets for 3% of its emissions cuts means "the EU’s 2040 net emissions would be 30% higher" than if it made the cuts domestically

www.oeko.de/publikation/...
The proposed 2040 climate target for the EU
On 2 July 2025 the Commission published its proposal for the EU’s greenhouse gas emission target for the year 2040. This target and its implementation will determine the EU’s climate ambition for the ...
www.oeko.de
July 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🎧 Looking for something to listen to this weekend?

In this episode of the Smoke and Mirrors podcast, Mary Church, campaigner at @ciel.org, dives deep into the myths, risks & global legal battles around #geoengineering, & why it threatens real #ClimateAction.

www.matrixlaw.co.uk/resource/a-c...
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A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law Part 1 - Matrix Chambers
A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law Part 1
www.matrixlaw.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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What is #geoengineering?

It’s in the news lately, but what does it really mean?

🔎 Geoengineering = large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere to temporarily reduce the effects of climate change. It’s a false climate solution

www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/what-is-geoe...
What is Geoengineering? - Geoengineering Monitor
Geoengineering refers to large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere with the aim of reducing the effects of climate change, usually
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🔥 In June, we hosted the first session in our new webinar series: Pulling Back the Curtain – Taking on False Solutions

The webinar unpacked some of the most common false solutions to the climate crisis including #CCS, #hydrogen, #BECCS, #geoengineering, and the role of CCS & #CDR in EU policy 👇

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July 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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1/2 What does the EU's #2040 climate target loophole mean in reality?

The @oekoinstitut.bsky.social shows that using international carbon offsets for 3% of its emissions cuts means "the EU’s 2040 net emissions would be 30% higher" than if it made the cuts domestically

www.oeko.de/publikation/...
The proposed 2040 climate target for the EU
On 2 July 2025 the Commission published its proposal for the EU’s greenhouse gas emission target for the year 2040. This target and its implementation will determine the EU’s climate ambition for the ...
www.oeko.de
July 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Wasting time & public 💰 on risky, expensive technical fixes such as #CCS and #CDR delays just transition + gives the industry cover to keep up emissions, says Oil Change International senior campaigner Myriam Douo, commenting on the EU's updated climate law.

➡️ www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...
July 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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📢🇪🇺𝟲𝟵 𝗡𝗩𝗢 𝗣𝗢𝗭𝗜𝗩𝗔 𝗘𝗨 𝗗𝗔 𝗢𝗗𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗜 𝗠𝗘Đ𝗨𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗡𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝟮 𝗞𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗭𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗝𝗘 𝗜 𝗨𝗞𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗝𝗘 𝗨𝗚𝗟𝗝𝗘𝗡 𝗗𝗜𝗢𝗞𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗔 - 𝗖𝗗𝗥 𝗨 𝗘𝗨 𝗭𝗔𝗞𝗢𝗡𝗨 𝗢 𝗞𝗟𝗜𝗠i
🔴 EU Zakon o klimi ne sme postati pojas za spasavanje za zagađivače!
❌ NE međunarodnoj kompenzaciji CO2
❌ NE #BECCS i #DACCS
✅ PRAVE klimatske akcije i smanjenje emisija

#KlimatskaPravda
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM