Frans Timmermans @TimmermansEU@respublicae.eu
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At #EarthHour today, let's take some time to appreciate what nature offers instead of taking it for granted.
The climate and biodiversity crises are staring us in the face. If we do not take care of nature, nature will reject us humans.
It’s time to #RestoreNature.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1639635045513150465
We have found an agreement with Germany on the future use of efuels in cars.
We will work now on getting the CO2-standards for cars regulation adopted as soon as possible, and the Commission will follow-up swiftly with the necessary legal steps to implement recital 11.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1639553948179742720
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Without 💧 water there would be no life on Earth
Yet, 40% of the world's population live in areas affected by water stress
At the @UN_Water Conference starting tomorrow, the 🇪🇺 will confirm its strong engagement for 🌍 water security with 33 commitments for #WaterAction
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1638156001890435073
The #climatecrisis affects nature, health, and creates food and water insecurity. Those who contributed least are hit the hardest.
The science is clear: the longer we wait with deep emissions cuts, the higher the risks, the more damage.
This is existential. We must speed up.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1637872672016048129
The #climatecrisis is widespread, rapid, and intensifying. Trying to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees is of critical importance to all life on Earth.
Policymakers and politicians face stark choices, but every fraction of a degree matters, and every step makes a difference.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1637805886256160768
Our collective ability to avoid the worst hinges on steep emissions reductions and #climateadaptation. With each decimal of temperature rise, adaptation needs become more urgent.
Preparedness is key and we need to work faster to get ready for already worsening impacts.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1637805883886387202
We also call on all donors to close their climate finance gap, and will work to align global financial flows with climate needs and get funding to those who need it most.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1637805881545850887
As soon as negotiations on #Fitfor55 are final, the EU is ready to update its NDC, as announced last year.
We call on other parties to follow suit to ensure that we keep 1.5 degrees within reach, as they promised in Glasgow and Sharm el-Sheikh.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1637805879201234945
The @IPCC_CH is unequivocal about the grave consequences the climate crisis already has.
It should be the basis for more ambition at #COP28:
🔴updated NDCs
🔴global emissions peak by 2025
🔴phase-out unabated fossil fuels
🔴robust domestic policies to get the job done
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1637805873757138946
MVDP schrijft geschiedenis in San Remo. Zo ontzettend mooi! Alleen de aller-allergrootsten komen daar alleen aan. Het voorjaar kan nu al niet meer stuk.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1637117987860750336
RT @EUClimateAction: Renewable #Hydrogen can help us meet our climate goals.
Today, we have announced the European Hydrogen Bank, which will:
🟢connect supply and demand across 🇪🇺
🟢boost domestic uptake
🟢expand production internationally
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1636371282764898305
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Today we have proposed our:
➡Net-Zero Industry Act to boost #cleantech
➡Critical Raw Materials Act to secure the green and digital transition
Both are part of our #EUGreenDeal Industrial Plan and will help 🇪🇺 become climate neutral.
Read: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_1665
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1636351569808568321
We staan voor gigantische uitdagingen waarvoor geen snelle, pijnloze oplossingen bestaan. Pas als de valse tegenstellingen zijn ontmaskerd komen we toe aan het bouwen van de bruggen waar zo’n behoefte aan is.
Lees het verhaal van meer en minder ⬇️
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpuKwa-I62U/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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I welcome the deal on a new Energy Efficiency Directive that we managed to reach early this morning.
We now have a strong 🇪🇺 framework to help us fully decarbonise the #EU economy.
#EnergyEfficiency is not a cost, rather an investment for the future!
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🚲 Biking is by far the cleanest and most affordable form of transport.
Executive Vice-President @TimmermansEU announced a European Declaration on Cycling coming this summer, inviting @europarl_en and @EUCouncil to sign up for it.
Read the full speech ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1633855060886126592
Progress made on gender equality is never a given. It requires constant work.
Together we fight for reproductive rights, stopping gender-based violence, and preventing discrimination.
We defend equal rights for everyone, every day.
#InternationalWomensDay #UnionofEquality
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✅SIGNED✅
More than 300 local authorities and regions have signed the #MissionClimateAdaptation Charter🎉
They will support the goals of the #EUGreenDeal and the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy to make 🇪🇺 more resilient to climate change.
Read: https://europa.eu/!v6T6D9
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1633061308802146304
This war is about much more than territory. Ukraine, a European nation, fights for its survival against an imperialist ideology that denies their very existence.
Let Ukraine’s heroism inspire us to be ever more united and determined in supporting their struggle.
Слава Україні
RT @ZelenskyyUa: On February 24, millions of us made a choice. Not a white flag, but the blue and yellow one. Not fleeing, but facing. Resisting & fighting.
It was a year of pain, sorro…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1629034681441157125
RT @EUClimateAction: Russia’s war of aggression continues, yet #Ukraine is already planning its #GreenReconstruction.
We #StandWithUkraine 🇪🇺🇺🇦 and together can:
🟢boost renewable energy
🟢support research & innovation
🟢protect nature and biodiversity
🟢combat climate change
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1628758808590680068
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Fashion is fun, but it's also one of the least sustainable industries worldwide
Our 🇪🇺 strategy includes longer-lasting textiles, clear product info, and reducing microplastics
Let's make #ReFashionNow the new trend for a healthier 🌍
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1628717509858951168
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal @vonderleyen @EU_Commission | he/him
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