My Articles About Climate Protection - Thomas Waitz

Animal Transport: Toothless Legislative Reform

After many years of political pressure from civil society and the Greens in the European Parliament, the EU Commission finally presented a proposal for a new EU animal transport law […]
Naturschutzgebiet, sumpfiges Gebiet, das renaturiert wurde

Nature Restoration Law: Success Against …

The Nature Restoration Law is an opportunity and necessity to continue the fight against the climate crisis and the associated loss of...

Angry farmers and right-wing demagogues

European farmers are angry, and rightly so. Between 2003 and 2016, five million European farmers had to close down their farms. Right-wing...

No to the Eu-Mercosur trade deal

In the following letter, EU parliamentarians jointly call for the EU-Mercosur agreement to be reopened in order to be able to regulate...

A European way out of the energy crisis

The energy crisis particularly affects the poorest people in Europe and is thus also a threat to social peace. It is now...

New GMOs and “Independent” …

In 2018 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that new gene-edited organisms (GMOs) are covered by the EU’s GMO laws and...

Taxonomy: Greenwashing Gas and Nuclear

By including gas and nuclear power in the taxonomy, the European Commission has taken this important instrument ad absurdum.