Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe

On 13 January 2025, we will launch 5 funding opportunities to support civil society organisations and groups driving impactful climate action, awareness, and advocacy projects. We’re committed to empowering diverse stakeholders—including youth, women, local communities, people with disabilities, and marginalised groups—toward an inclusive, gender-transformative, and just transition. Who can apply? CSOs and groups in Europe (EU-27, Western Balkans, Turkey) and the Global South (Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands) working in climate justice and related areas. 💡 Our Funds: ✅ Climate Action Engagement – Led by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe ✅ Feminist Climate Action – Led by WECF International ✅ Youth Climate Changemakers – Led by Generation Climate Europe (GCE) ✅ Global Connections for Climate Justice – Led by CBM Ireland ✅ Regenerative Communities – Led by ECOLISE 🗓️ Key Dates: Applications open: 13 January 2025 Deadline to apply: 7 March 2025 Projects begin: May/June 2025 Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/e9YRHAHh And stay tuned for the application details on 13 January! Learn more about the #FundingFairerFutures project: https://lnkd.in/dHzfqQDn #EUDEARprogramme

🔵 While we welcome the adoption of Recommendation R/2024/01-MC-EnC to expedite renewable energy deployment and implement the energy efficiency first principle, #WesternBalkans governments face significant challenges in ensuring the region’s energy transition stays on track. ⚡ Delayed transposition of the 2018 #Renewable Energy Directive, 🌍 Lack of cohesion between renewables, climate, biodiversity, agriculture, and social policy. Governments must ensure rules are implemented: 👉 Meticulously, with public engagement and community ownership to build trust, 👉 In synergy with nature protection to deliver long-term environmental and social benefits. What must be done: 🏗️ Map suitable RES locations—brownfields, rooftops, and non-agricultural land, 📋 Create one-stop-shop systems with straightforward procedures, ⚡ Invest in grids to absorb renewable energy and allocate slots for prosumers and energy communities. 📌 Practical solutions exist! 👇🏻   CAN Europe’s Guidelines for Faster and Fairer Permitting can help governments, local authorities, and developers streamline processes while ensuring fairness and transparency. Access them here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNk8WPdz

Becoming more efficient in how we produce and consume energy can substantially reduce our need for fossil fuels, bring down energy prices and raise comfort levels in our homes. The European Commission needs to commit to a 2040 energy efficiency target, to give the signal to governments, industry and various sectors to continue to innovate and build on their strategies and measures when it comes to reducing energy demand. Read our op-ed on this in Euractiv below 👇 https://lnkd.in/ezEeWJgP

✅Legal certainty ❌Legislative ping-pong 📢 90+ organisations urge EU leaders to protect the sustainability reporting framework, promoting smart implementation and providing the legal certainty companies need to thrive.

Today at CAN Europe’s General Assembly, we proudly elected our new board chairs! 🎉 A heartfelt thank you to Josianne Gauthier for her outstanding work over the past years, and a warm welcome to our newly elected chairs✨: Marita Hutjes and Ester Asin Martinez!

 ⏰ Consistently Late or Late but Consistent ❓ With the first #NECP Progress Report deadline fast approaching—15 March 2025, six months after the official deadline for NECP adoption, #WesternBalkans governments still appear far from delivering the meaningful contributions needed to meet the #EnergyCommunity 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 3️⃣ 0️⃣ #targets. 📖 The Reform Agendas describe NECPs as a golden ticket 🎟️  to greater ambition and access to funding crucial for the region’s energy transition. But will these plans deliver ❓ ➡️ Only if national strategies are credible, consistent, and timely. Delays risk ❓  🔒 🏭 Locking the region into further fossil fuel dependency,  🦥 Implementing short-sighted policies that miss long-term goals,  💸 Failing to ensure critical funds are properly utilised to drive real change. ⚠️ Governments must step up, adopt their NECPs, and implement robust, forward-thinking measures to turn energy transition ambitions into action. Read more on our website: https://lnkd.in/dThbJSvz

🌍 Inclusion must be at the heart of climate action. At #COP29, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and partners hosted an important event to spotlight the need for inclusive Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and climate action by large. It is crystal clear that climate resilience cannot exist without human rights—and human rights cannot be realized without ensuring the inclusion of persons with disabilities or marginalised groups. Key takeaways included: ✅  Enhanced Accessibility: Ensure that all climate action spaces, documents and consultations are accessible, with specific budgets and resources dedicated to achieving this. ✅  Data-Driven Inclusion: Establish comprehensive, inclusive, and targeted disaggregated data collection on the impact of climate change on marginalised groups. ✅  Intersectional Approach: Recognise and address the intersectional needs of marginalised groups, particularly in relation to gender, Indigenous status, and disability. ✅  Strengthen Disability Constituencies: Formalise the Disability Constituency within the UNFCCC to ensure meaningful participation and representation. ✅  Inclusive Financing: Develop and implement financing mechanisms that ensure most at-risk groups have equal access to climate funds and capacity-building programs. 🗓️ Looking Ahead: 2025 NDC Submission Deadline The early 2025 deadline for updated Nationally Determined Contributions (#NDCs) is fast approaching, offering a critical opportunity to increase ambition. Governments must ensure that updated NDCs integrate inclusive, human rights-based approaches and deliver on both mitigation and adaptation needs. The inclusion of marginalized groups, especially persons with disabilities, must be a cornerstone of these plans to ensure that no one is left behind in the fight against climate change. This was a crucial reminder: no one must be left behind as we work toward a just and sustainable future. Let’s ensure that the road to #COP30 brings stronger commitments to inclusivity, accessibility, and justice in climate governance. Further reading: ➡️ CBM Global Climate Advocacy Roadmap: https://lnkd.in/e5kkU_AH ➡️ IDA: Integrating disability rights into climate action – now! https://lnkd.in/dXzB44cC ➡️ CANLA NDCs analysis: https://lnkd.in/d6wy4DA5 📸 Barbara McCarthy & Jani Savolainen 🤝 Mahbub Kabir, James Trinder, Chiara Martinelli, Barbara McCarthy, Mark Barrell, Gordon Rattray, Giulia Traversi Delpozzo, Laura Restrepo Alameda, Pablo Chamorro Ortiz, Gerard Howe, Alan O'Brien, Maria Cristina Cifuentes Cifuentes & CBM UK, CBM Ireland, International Disability Alliance, CANLA, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe!

Ahead of the EU Environment Council next Tuesday where the EU 2040 climate target will be on the agenda, we have sent a letter to Environment/Climate Ministers across the EU. We are calling on them to align with science and climate ambition, and commit to achieveing at least 92% gross emission reductions compared to 1990 levels by 2040. You can read the full letter below 👇 https://lnkd.in/dhDb7yQC

🚨New Podcast Alert🚨 Climate litigation is a powerful tool to demand action on climate change 🌍 🎧In this episode, we hear the Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya who sued a major German energy company for its contribution to the climate crisis and Noah Walker-Crawford research fellow at London School of Economics and advisor of Germanwatch e.V. on this landmark case. 🎧Tune in and explore the growing role of legal action in advancing climate justice! 🟢 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3D2tCsI 🔵 Apple: https://apple.co/49wdf3V #ClimateLitigation #ClimateJustice  #SaulvsRWE

The EU trade policy and the upcoming EU industrial policy need to be aligned to deliver a prosperous economy that respects planetary boundaries: ☘️ Social & environmental standards for products entering the EU market 🔄 Trade policy supporting resource efficiency, circularity & renewable energy ✅ The trade policy should protect our toolbox for a green industrial policy – and the toolbox of our trading partners ❌ The export of climate-damaging products banned in the EU should stop and low tariffs on other climate-damaging products removed Isabelle Brachet writes at the World Commerce Review ⬇️