The EU wants and needs to be climate-neutral by 2050 in order to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and avert an impending climate crisis. However, the reduction of CO2 emissions must not go hand in hand with an extension of backward-looking and dangerous technologies. "The news that France has announced a public...
This morning, the EU heads of state and government agreed on a disappointing new climate target: By 2030, the European Union's net emissions are to be reduced by 55 percent compared to 1990 levels. However, the term "net emissions" only refers to an actual reduction of...
In view of the tensions in the eastern Mediterranean region, 53 MEPs from Germany and Greece have sent a joint letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel calling on her to immediately suspend the export of submarines, submarine parts and related maintenance services to Turkey. The MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), Manuela...
Brussels, December 09, 2020 - After the Administrative Court of Frankfurt/Oder stopped the further clearing of around 83 hectares of forest in favor of a Tesla plant in Brandenburg for the time being, Manuela Ripa, MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), has turned to the responsible EU Commissioner for the Environment Virginijus Sinkevičius. He should...
Every day in Germany, an area of 56 hectares is built on for settlements and infrastructure - the equivalent of around 79 soccer pitches. The German government's original goal of keeping this land consumption below 30 hectares from 2020 has therefore failed and has been postponed to 2030. That...
A new study by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has now confirmed what 1.4 million Europeans demanded from the EU Commission in a successful petition: We are ready to end the cage era in European agriculture! Cage farming is devastating for the...
In order to actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, we must not only look at production within Europe, but also include the environmental costs in international trade with third countries. How these external environmental costs can be internalized in the European CO2 calculation was the core...
Sick and injured cows - the images secretly recorded by animal rights activists on a farm in Unterallgäu shocked the public more than a year ago. The public prosecutor's office in Memmingen has now charged two farmers and four employees of the dairy farm in Bad Grönenbach. 58 cattle were, as the...
For effective consumer protection in the EU, many areas must be interlinked. How exactly this overall picture should be addressed holistically by European policy and which issues need to be prioritized was the focus of the discussion between Manuela Ripa, MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), and...
The EU Parliament today adopted new draft legislation to strengthen consumer protection and the sustainability of products in the European Union in many areas: In future, there will be mandatory labeling for the lifespan and reparability of products. In addition, the planned obsolescence, i.e. the...