May 30, 2022 SOLIDAR and FEPS call on leaders in Europe to put in place transformative action aimed at making our societies and economies peaceful, equitable and climate-neutral, starting with ensuring a rapid and just energy transition and building a stronger social Europe. We live in times of recurrent and mutually reinforcing global crises. The…
May 11, 2022 On 9 and 10 June 2022, Civil Society Organisations with an interest in sustainability, a socially Just Transition and climate and environmental action will gather in Brussels to conduct a mid-term review of the European Green Deal. In the framework of the Real Deal project funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020, SOLIDAR, the European Environmental…
May 10, 2022 SOLIDAR and its members La Ligue de l’Enseignement and Ceméa celebrated Europe Day with a roundtable discussion on a Just Transition in France and the EU, and on the role played by grassroots movements in connecting social justice with climate action. The roundtable, which gathered over 30 participants and was held in French,…
April 21, 2022 The EEB, SDG Watch Europe, the European Youth Forum and SOLIDAR, with the support of 65+ other civil society organisations, call for solidarity and a strong commitment to the ecological and social transition for resilience, energy independence and peace. Russia’s war against Ukraine is a horrific act of aggression and a failure of diplomacy. It…
In 2019, it was estimated that over 50 million Europeans live in energy poverty and struggle to keep their homes adequately warm or cool, pay their utility bills on time and live in healthy spaces. As a result of the economic hardships caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the rising inflation and the current oil and…
March 23, 2022 Together with partner organisations and a dozen other members of the European Alliance for a Just Transition, SOLIDAR calls on EU institutions and Member States to carry the creation of the Social Climate Fund through and to be more ambitious and solidary with regard to its budget, governance and set-up. The Social Climate Fund (SCF or Fund),…
March 18, 2022 The programme of the 2022 edition of the Civil Society Days, an annual event organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) to enhance the dialogue between Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and EU institutions, included the workshop “Building a Democratic Economy for a Just Transition” co-organised by SOLIDAR, Social Economy Europe, Cooperatives Europe and…
March 15, 2022 The European Commission’s proposal for a reform of the EU borrowing and spending rules has the potential to support and encourage a socially Just green Transition. However, if governments do not signal high ambitions, the reform will only tinker around the edges. Therefore, SOLIDAR has joined the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and a…
March 7, 2022 SOLIDAR welcomes the latest IPCC report, which provides strong scientific proof of the close interconnection between climate change, environmental degradation and the structural injustices and inequalities that pervade our societies. On 28 February, in the shadows of war once again tormenting Europe, the United Nations’ (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…
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