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A new year, a new Commission |
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WELCOME TO THE NEW CAN EUROPE WEBSITE! You will see that some parts of it are still under construction, but we hope you will agree what a positive addition it is to our toolbox here at CAN Europe!
January 2010 started with a bang as the European Parliament grilled the newly designated candidates for the European Commission to ensure they are up to the tasks they will be taking on for the next five years. The key interviews relative to CAN Europe's work started well with Januz Potocnik of Slovenia, who formerly served as head of DG Research and received high marks for his performance during his Parliamentary interview to become the new Environment Commissioner. This new Commission is an especially exciting prospect for CAN Europe as we will get our first ever European Climate Action Commissioner in the form of Connie Hedegaard, who served as Climate and Energy Minister for Denmark for several years during the runup to the Copenhagen climate summit. Check back here for more information as we prepare to engage with the new Directorate General for Climate in the weeks ahead.
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Press Release: Melting Leadership - Too little, too late from the EU |
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[December 21, 2009 - Copenhagen] - This weekend the climate summit in Copenhagen ended in failure, closing without adopting the fair, ambitious and binding agreement that is required to avoid dangerous climate change. The EU failed to move to a higher emissions reduction target at a critical moment when doing so could have unlocked the talks. “We cannot ignore the role the EU has played in this failure,” said Matthias Duwe, Director of Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe. [1] “The EU was leading the charge to negotiate a future climate regime two years ago, and came to the negotiations with a clear, developed mandate and position. However, they missed every opportunity in the run up to Copenhagen to show leadership and push these talks out of their suffocating deadlock. The inconclusive and weak outcome of the EU summit held during the Copenhagen meeting was the latest example of the EU’s passivity.” |
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Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E) is recognised as Europe's leading network working on climate and energy issues. With over 100 members in 25 european countries, CAN-E unites to work to prevent dangerous climate change and promote sustainable energy and environment policy in Europe. The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 365 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government, private sector and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. CAN is based on trust, openness and democracy.
The vision of CAN is a world striving actively towards and achieving the protection of the global climate in a manner that promotes equity and social justice between peoples, sustainable development of all communities, and protection of the global environment. CAN unites to work towards this vision.
CAN's mission is to support and empower civil society organisations to influence the design and development of an effective global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure its implementation at international, national and local levels in the promotion of equity and sustainable development.
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