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The Green 10, representing 50 million Europeans across all Member States and Candidate Countries, put forward these calls for political decisions that will define our common future.
The overwhelming majority of Europeans want to see action on climate change, care about environmental protection, and are concerned about the health impacts of pollution.
These are times of multiple crises, unprecedented heatwaves with dramatic costs on people’s lives and the economy, and geopolitical upheaval. Yet another fossil fuel crisis has exposed the many dangers of our dependency on it. Disinformation has been systematically used to undermine science-based policymaking, erode the rule of law, including international law, and replace it with the rule of the strongest. Activities by vested interests are also fuelling the backlash against the EU environmental and climate framework, which has brought many benefits to people over the past decades and brought hope for the future.
Health, social and environmental protections are at risk; the European project is itself in existential danger, and Europe’s democratic model is being weakened, potentially undermined if no action is taken to resist.
