Report: EU Fuel Tax Subsidies Worth €1.5 billion are Driving Climate Impacts & Overfishing
The EU fishing fleet receives a tax break of between €759 million and €1.5 billion from fuel tax subsidies each year, as well as producing nearly 7.3 million tons of...
‘Save the Ocean to Save the Climate’, Swimmers Tell Leaders in Marseille
Dozens of people dived into the Mediterranean Sea today during the IUCN World Conservation Congress to celebrate the power of the ocean to fight climate change, and to call on...
IPCC: Our Fish Calls on EU to End Overfishing in Response to Climate Crisis
“This latest IPCC report is the wake-up call to beat all wake-up calls. The EU must now take this as their go-button to deliver every climate action that they can,...
Before Commissioner heads for beach, EU citizens provide him with demand to “Save the Ocean, Save the Climate, End Overfishing”
The Our Fish campaign presented a petition signed by EU citizens - and a colourful beach towel - to the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius...
Reaction to EU Fit for 55: Energy Taxation Directive and Fossil Fuel Subsidies for the Fishing Industry
Why does the fishing industry get a free pass when everyone else has to pay the true price of carbon pollution and environmental destruction?
Businesses and NGOs Demand End to EU Tax Exemptions for Fossil Fuels
More than 40 businesses, think tanks and NGOs today called on the EU to eliminate vast and continuing subsidies to fossil fuels, which the group say run directly counter to...
EU Must Respond to Baltic Sea Ecosystem and Fisheries Crash with Urgent, Radical Measures
- Responding to today's publication of annual scientific advice for 2022 EU fishing limits for the Baltic Sea by ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) [1], a...