Frans Timmermans @TimmermansEU@respublicae.eu
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💶 We also pay for pollution. With taxes, health, and human lives. The longer we wait pollution, the higher the costs to society.
Today’s proposals tackle pollution at both sides: we prevent and ensure those who created pollution pay for cleaning up.
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RT @EU_ENV: Today, with our 🆕 #ZeroPollution package, we are proposing stronger rules on:
☁️ ambient air
🌊 surface & groundwater pollutants
🏙️ urban wastewater treatment
Because…
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Getting to climate neutrality is about much more than pushing down greenhouse gas emissions.
To have clean air and water, and a #ZeroPollution environment by 2050, we need to step up action today.
We have ample reason to do so ⬇️
RT @VSinkevicius: Our Health comes first!
Each year, 300,000 Europeans, a city bigger than Venice, die early because of air pollution.
We propose 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 rules for cleaner ☁️ air &💧water.
We wan…
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RT @EU_Commission: A #ZeroPollution plan for a toxic-free environment.
Stay tuned for our new package that aims to improve air quality and water quality in the EU.
Find out everything we do #ForNature, and for people: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/index_en
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Energy savings reduce our dependency on Russian gas and are hugely important to tackle the climate crisis.
It needs a team effort: if everyone contributes, we will get through the next winters and be ready for a greener future.
Bad for Putin, good for the climate!
#RePowerEU
RT @EU_Commission: 🙌 Become a fan of saving energy too.
⚽ With ambition, passion and team spirit we can save energy and have fun while doing it. All i…
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RT @TimMcPhieEU: Do you want to help us
- fight the energy crisis
- deliver the #EUGreenDeal
- protect our environment?
The @EU_Commission is hiring energy, climate and environment experts.
Come join the #GreenDreamTeam!
Read more here 👇
https://epso.europa.eu/en/administrators-energy-climate-and-environment
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🌱Ensemble nous travaillons pour un développement humain, et une économie durable et circulaire.
🌍Les destins de l’Europe et l’Afrique sont étroitement liés. Si l’Afrique avance, l’Europe avancera.
🤝Le Partenariat Vert 🇪🇺-🇲🇦 sera ainsi un coup d’envoi pour toute la région.
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🤝Très heureux de signer le premier Partenariat Vert sous le #EUGreenDeal avec le Maroc aujourd’hui.
🇲🇦 Le Maroc est un vrai leader de l’adaptation climatique, de la transition énergétique, et la lutte contre la pollution, dans le pays ainsi que sur le continent africain.
RT @MarocDiplomatie: M. Nasser Bourita et le vice-président exécutif de la Commission Européenne, M. Frans Timmermans, ont procédé, aujourd’hui à Rabat, à la s…
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The next few winters will be tough, but today's package helps to keep European families warm and industry going.
By taking measures now and developing the tools to buy gas together, we can again head into the next heating season with enough gas in storage.
#RePowerEU
RT @EU_Commission: Today we are proposing new emergency rules to tackle this energy crisis while ensuring the security of supply this winter.
This will be done t…
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Très bon échange avec @ChefGov_ma Aziz Akhannouch ce matin.
Le 🇲🇦 est un partenaire clé pour 🇪🇺 et je salue en particulier l’engagement du pays dans la transition verte en Afrique.
Nous continuons à renforcer notre coopération envers #COP27 et en matière de sécurité énergétique
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Congratulations to my good friend Stefan Löfven on his election as @PES_PSE president! Under his leadership we will show to Europeans that solidarity can be and has to be the guiding principle of politics in today’s Europe.
#Progressives4Europe 💪🏼🌹
RT @PES_PSE: 🌹We welcome the new PES President: #StefanLöfven!
👏 Congratulations, to our new President, just elected by the #PESCongress with a 97.3 % majority (in favour - 255; absten…
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Nature is our best ally in the fight against the climate crisis. But the way things are going now, humanity is quickly becoming nature’s worst enemy.
The @WWFEU 2022 Living Planet Report sketches in great detail how dire the situation is 👇
RT @WWFEU: BREAKING! 🚨 Species population numbers have plummeted by 69% on average since 1970.
Our life-line is in danger💔
🌍EU needs strong nature restoration & deforestation laws - now! 🌴🌳…
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After tackling #SingleUse plastics, we will now aim to promote #ReUse as much as possible. The upcoming revision of EU packaging rules will propose reuse as a key element. Thank you @zerowasteeurope for sharing your #WeChooseReuse petition today!
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Un prix Nobel très, très mérité pour Annie Ernaux. Chroniqueuse de la vie normande et française à travers ses propres expériences. ‘Les années’ sans doute son chef-d’œuvre; ‘L’évènement’ une description inoubliable de la condition féminine lors de notre jeunesse. Félicitations!
RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with w…
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"We tend to say ‘we are all in the same boat', but frankly we are not. We are all in the same ocean, but not in the same boat. We need to make sure that everybody has a boat that can survive."
Full remarks at the #PreCOP27 Climate Vulnerable Forum 👇
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_22_5971
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RT @Energy4Europe: The EC🇪🇺 and industry leaders, committed to the green #energytransition, launched the Biomethane Industrial Partnership (BIP) today at #EUSEW2022.
➡️ https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/european-commission-and-industry-leaders-launch-biomethane-industrial-partnership-2022-sep-28_en
#REPowerEU #biomethane #energysecurity
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RT @EUClimateAction: Good climate news:
Average CO2 emissions from new cars in Europe decreased by 12% in 2020 compared to 2019.
The main reason was the uptake of electric vehicles 🚗⚡️, which increased from 3.5% in 2019 to 11.6% in 2020.
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Humanity is being challenged at a level seldom seen before in history. With complex challenges like these, there are no easy answers.
Full speech at @Hospodarsky’s #GreenDealSummit this morning ⬇️
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_22_5794
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RT @EUinmyRegion: #EUGreenDeal in Czechia
📢€1.64 billion for a #JustTransition in three 🇨🇿 regions with high concentration of carbon-intensive industries:
📍 Karlovy Vary
📍 Ústecký
📍 Moravian-Silesian Region
#CohesionPolicy #EUFunds
🌕https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/newsroom/news/2022/09/26-09-2022-eu-cohesion-policy-eur1-64-billion-for-a-just-climate-transition-in-czechia
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Czechia is a country with a rich industrial tradition and a promising future. The 🇨🇿 Just Transition Plan adopted today invests € 1.64 billion for a fair transition to climate neutrality in Czechia, especially for the people in Karlovasky, Ústecky, and Moravskoslezky regions.
RT @ElisaFerreiraEC: With adoption of its Just Transition Plan, Czechia is ready to make the best of its 2021-2027 #CohesionPolicy investments.
We will cont…
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Very good to have met 🇦🇪 Minister Al Jabar at #UNGA
As the first in the region to go for #NetZero by 2050 and with an updated, ambitious 2030 target, the UAE are committed to lead on the climate and energy transition.
I look forward to working together on the way to #COP28.
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