Frans Timmermans @TimmermansEU@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal @vonderleyen @EU_Commission | he/him
Joined Apr 2022
Frans Timmermans
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How dare the EU?
Reducing chemical pesticides & fertilizers now, when we need to squeeze the most from every crop we can harvest?
We dare. Because Europeans need healthy, affordable food now, for our children and our children’s children.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Food_EU/status/1600845561128751106
RT @LIFEprogramme: Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide. 🌏
We are losing plants & animals at a rate 1000 times greater than any other time in recorded human history.
Discover how our #LIFEprojects' work delivers a myriad of benefits #ForOurPlanet.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1600498151152128003
Frans Timmermans
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Nature and biodiversity help us fight #climatechange by:
🌲 capturing and storing carbon
🌡 cooling our air
🏞 purifying our water
With #COP15 underway, read the latest #EUClimatePact article for tips on protecting biodiversity: https://europa.eu/!Y8nG4h
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1600412976665837569
RT @EUClimateAction: Another deal done! ✈️
We agreed with @europarl_en & @EUCouncil on how aviation is covered in the 🇪🇺 Emissions Trading System.
🟢faster phase out of free allowances
🟢speed up sustainable fuels use
🟢new system to monitor, report & verify non-CO2 emissions
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1600466693918105600
Frans Timmermans
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What is #NaturePositive?
We are losing nature at an alarming pace.
To fully restore ecosystems & biodiversity by 2050, we need to work with and #ForNature, not against it
As #CoP15 kicks off today in 🇨🇦 Montreal, learn more about what it means, for our lives & #ForOurPlanet 👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1600406548315971584
Frans Timmermans
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#COP15 kicks off tomorrow, right after we launched the 1st law in the world to curb deforestation.
The European Union 🇪🇺 arrives in Montreal with 1 goal:
Get an ambitious deal to protect & restore the only planet 🌍 we have.
Bringing back Nature means securing our future.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/VSinkevicius/status/1600175350608060424
Frans Timmermans
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🆕Major achievement #ForOurPlanet & #EUForests ahead of #CoP15
With the @europarl_en & @EUCouncil, we agreed on the 1st law to fight 🌍 deforestation driven by major goods on the 🇪🇺 market such as:
🌴 palm oil
☕️ coffee
🍫 cocoa
and more!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1600057387985301504
An important turning point in the global fight against #deforestation!
Combatting deforestation is an urgent task for this generation, and a great legacy to leave behind for the next.
#ForOurPlanet #EUGreenDeal
RT @VSinkevicius: Major news before #COP15
We just agreed with @europarl_en & @EUCouncil on the 1st law in the world to fight global deforestation!
We take responsibility for our EU 🇪🇺production & consumption in a historic moment to protect the world…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1600054610655412224
RT @EU_ENV: The time to act for our 🌏 is now!
Today, jointly with @eu_eeas, we launch our brand new campaign #ForOurPlanet
This is our ambition to join forces all across the 🌍 to take action on the ground #ForNature and the climate!
Because big changes often start small!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1600049907364151296
Frans Timmermans
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Today is #WorldSoilDay 🌱
Pesticides, 🧪 nutrients and heavy machinery have severely depleted #EUSoil
Farming with respect for soil health is the best guarantee for food security
We need to stop trying to outsmart nature & start trying to understand it
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1599701319996289024
Poland has what it takes to take the lead in Europe’s energy transition. In each region that will receive funding, there is a strong sense of determination and a desire to build a better future for all workers and citizens.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1599848024301195264
Economic logic, climate change, and air pollution require that we turn the page on coal. We want to do so by giving new life to Europe’s coal regions.
My visit to the Hewalex solar panel plant today underlined Silesia’s great potential.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1599848010502275072
A real pleasure to have been in Katowice today and announce the adoption of four #JustTransition plans for Poland.
The @EU_Commission is determined to leave nobody behind in our climate transition. We want a clean, healthy, and sustainable future to be available for everyone.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1599847993699508224
Finally, industry will need a source of carbon that is not based on fossil fuels, for example to make plastics, rubbers or certain chemicals. Our proposal today ensures that carbon bound in such products can be effectively certified.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022491519475712
Financial support will flow to those farmers, foresters and land managers who choose practices with considerable additional benefits to biodiversity – our certification will not embrace the creation of new monocultures just because they store a lot of carbon.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022489464078340
We want carbon removals to offer new and additional sources of income for the many farmers eager to do more for biodiversity, but who struggle to find the necessary funding.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022487329353728
Today’s proposal for a certification framework for ensures that whenever a ton of carbon is said to have been taken from the atmosphere, we can verify that claim: has it actually happened, is it additional to a business-as-usual scenario, and is it effectively stored?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022485018284032
To become climate neutral, deep and drastic emissions cuts will always be the core of our efforts.
But it is impossible to bring all of our emissions down to zero. We need carbon removals as well, through technology or natural carbon sinks.
#EUGreenDeal
RT @EUClimateAction: Today we present a pioneering proposal to help us get to net zero emissions.
The first ever 🇪🇺-wide framework to reliably certify high-quality carbon removals.
To boost innovative natural…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022481809354752
RT @EU_Commission: To fight climate crisis, we must remove carbon already out there in addition to cutting emissions.
We need carbon removals: natural or industrial activities that remove CO2 from atmosphere.
Our proposal to develop tailored certification methods for #EUCarbonRemovals matters.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598021744131907585
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal @vonderleyen @EU_Commission | he/him
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