The planet doesn’t negotiate. It sends signals: rising seas, wildfires, heatwaves.

The EU responds with commitments like:

🔸Water Resilience Strategy
🔹Chemical Regulation
🔸EU Climate Law (net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050)
🔹Restoring nature and repairing damaged ecosystems

Change is accelerating: solar and wind infrastructure is expanding, cities are being redesigned around nature.

This World Environment Day, the debate isn't if climate change is real, but how fast we can act.

@EUCommission

> net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

it used to be "by 2030"

@ki @EUCommission Probably something we can thank the german government for...
@jan Ki | 奇  :nonbinary_flag: Never will be zero. That's physically impossible.

@martin

Really? Net-zero has that word "net" in it for a reason.
It won't be easy to get there by any means, but it's certainly physically possible.
Is it politically and practically possible?
Those are very different questions.

@ki Yup. 2050 being post-collapse/extinction, that makes it an excellent and very achievable net-zero goal.
@ki @EUCommission Corrections needs to be made if you see it is impossible.
@EUCommission ojalá tuvierais el poder real de defender los cientos de wcocidios locales. Por ejemplo, el Cortijo de Cuarto en Sevilla, España.
@EUCommission
Why do you promote your reduction of the goals as good for the environment???
Is your thinking already affected by the heat? Or are you deprived of clean oxygen???
@EUCommission we need to stop ai datacenters too
@teknomagic @EUCommission
How else would they generate images like the one on the left
@srgesus @EUCommission with a camera maybe, I know it's a radical idea but it may work
@srgesus you've never seen anything like that? Then you should visit some southern European city's and look Up at the buildings. This pic is not AI, this is real!
@EUCommission Start by banning data centres.
@Seiðr You are literally using data centers right now. Star with yourself. Switch off your PC/mobile and stop using internet. Don't be a hypocrite.
@martin I don't speak to AI-bootlickers.
@Seiðr 😂 Weak, feeble.

You are literally using data centers right now. Star with yourself. Switch off your PC/mobile and stop using internet. Don't be a hypocrite.

@martin
AI data centres are specifically built for this, those are not your usual data centres.

Also, the "And yet you live in society" argument is not the gotcha you think it is.

@Illuminatus @martin not everyone can run their services from home...
@martin
We can blame our pcs being datacenters to EU not exercising correct regulation.
@EUCommission you promised Trump to buy $750B in gas from the US
@Santiago 🌸 So who do you want to buy the gas from?
@martin the issue is not the who but the amount. that is way more was than the EU uses in that period. so they commited themselves to increase the usage of gas
@sanzky and sell it for a ridiculous high price to consumers ...

@EUCommission

Sadly, you not only act slowly but a) roll back the little you've had accomplished and b) facilitate fueling the climate crisis.

For these crimes alone you must be prosecuted.

@EUCommission too little, too slow, too late. We should already be at net zero if climate agreements didn't get stomped on in the name of capitalism every year since I was a child.
@European Commission
You have just shifted production and its impacts to countries that don’t care about the environment at all, so you are doing even more harm to the global environment.

The rare earth mining site near Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China
@EUCommission One of the biggest co2 emitters is meat production and consumption. The EU is frustrating the transition to plant based products by banning several meat names for plant based alternatives. Get your priorities right when you mean the above post... #vegan #proteintransition #PlantBased

@EUCommission

I often think that I was born in the wrong time. Life a long time ago was peaceful, grateful, and close to nature. 🌿

@EUCommission
Net-zero greenhouse emissions at 2050....
What about finally doing something about overconsumption of plastic sht up until clothes?! It's getting hard to get cotton clothesninstead of all those plastics poly-whatever mixes clothes are made of. Microfibre, also plastics. How will you stop those and change it back to natural fibres - not just cotton - if you want net-zero greenhouse emission in 24y time?

@Catha @EUCommission there are so many problems out there and I think it is relevant and necessary to talk about trade. As long as we base our society on this mechanism, it is like monopoly and and we see problems everywhere.

We need more #trade-free goods & services and the #EU can fund those people who do amazing work and without that, our society would collapse: directory.trade-free.org/

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They also don’t provide any warranty for this service: “This service is provided without any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The service is provided on an “as is” basis, and we do not guarantee that it will be error-free, completely secure, or uninterrupted.” (https://fml.srht.site/terms.html) No Title 14/03/2026 Review of wanderer Wanderer is an exciting decentralised project and can be listed in this directory, as it is freely available and does not ask anything of its users (the community). There is no data trading, no premium or pro features, etc. No Title 14/03/2026 Review of The Apple Wiki except a cloudflare tracker, this wiki seems trade-free which is why 4/5 blocks may be given. No Title 28/01/2026 Review of Invidious Instances List This is a good alternative for YouTube, I really like it. No Title 20/12/2025 Review of waterwaymap a super cool map that shows waterflows and rivers all around the world. When I looked closely, I could see via the browser extension privacy badger (https://privacybadger.org/) that there is a tracker (analytics.ahrefs.com) on the website which is unnecessary I think. Also ublock origin (https://ublockorigin.com/) blocked gc.zgo.at which seems to be a open source web analytics platform (https://pkg.go.dev/zgo.at/goatcounter/v2#section-readme). Maybe 3/5 blocks because of that.

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@Catha Cotton is also not good. The biggest producers are near Aral sea... Well, Aral desert...

And yet we’re capable of making clothes out of wood (modified viscose), which grows everywhere. True, it’s a bit more expensive than cotton from Central Asia.
@EUCommission The direction is good, but we need to be much more ambitious and decisive. 2050 is too far in the future and net zero is not enough, we need to be net negative.
@EUCommission That graphic is Very Good. It really makes the point!
@EUCommission How about responding with strong recommendations for cutting consumption, instead of continuing to let that be overruled by "but what about the economy?"
@EUCommission My advice: STOPP dismantling the EU Green Deal!

@EUCommission

"chemical regulation" as in - not regulating chemicals anymore ?!

Just stop telling lies.

This isn't Insta, TikTok or X.

The people here KNOW what you are actually DOING.

dammit 🤨

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-is-failing-to-cut-pesticide-use/a-76961584

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EU is failing to cut pesticide use

With binding cut targets scrapped, the European Union's pledge to halve pesticide use is stalling — even as controversial chemicals like glyphosate remain on sale across the bloc.

Deutsche Welle

@EUCommission
Sachant ce que vous décidez par ailleurs, j'ai l'impression que cette communication c'est pour ''se foutre de ma gueule'' et ''me prendre pour un con''.

@berlinfokus

@EUCommission Ok stop fighting plant based meat then.

Everything else is a palliative.

@EUCommission that is your solution to tackle #climateChange? To tax hard working #farmers which produce organic food and clean our air?

To make things even worse, the alternative is the production of #plasticFood which is carcinogenic and further pollutes our environment.

#netZero #propaganda

@EUCommission why are you funding big oil then and not promoting heat exchange pumps? Also, the biggest consumers are the rich. Where's the #wealthtax?
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@EUCommission

2050 is way, way too late!!!

Time to act guys, no more self-advertising post!

@EUCommission This you?

Stop contradicting yourself and start making sense.

@EUCommission

Those AC units are part of the solution if they can be reversed and used as heat.

Your AC isn't your problem, Europe, your gas-dependent heating systems are.

@EUCommission

Just tax the rich and stop building data centres. It’s just that easy.

@EUCommission Can you please stop boosting AI everywhere then? It can't do the job and it's killing the planet and our societies far faster than anything else we've ever done.

@EUCommission

Just a thought: maybe don't subsidize stuff like "AI gigafactories" then ... !

@EUCommission Part of the issue is education. I wish I was better at understanding which trees can be planted near my house.

@EUCommission

Having lived in Europe for 30 years I however can see the environmental degradation that happened through uncontrolled road building, industrialisation and very low levels of natural habitat reserve

The country I am currently resident does not leave a cm2 un-manicured or tampered with. Its gone on for so long whole generations do not understand what nature is and the difference to farm land, I have the feeling I live in a carpark

@EUCommission You are repeating solar and wind, but those are unfortunately unrealible.

Geothermal power-plants seems as a great ecological solution while also providing the opportunity to mine while producing electricity.

UK did it, we shall too. :)