Il rollback dell’UE sulla politica ambientale sta guadagnando slancio, avvertisce gli attivisti
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/26/eu-rollback-on-environmental-policy-deregulation-european-green-deal
di FredditJaggit
Il rollback dell’UE sulla politica ambientale sta guadagnando slancio, avvertisce gli attivisti
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/26/eu-rollback-on-environmental-policy-deregulation-european-green-deal
di FredditJaggit
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The European Union’s rollback of environment policy is gaining momentum, campaigners have warned, in a deregulation drive that has shocked observers with its scale and speed.
EU policymakers have dealt several critical blows to their much-vaunted European Green Deal since the end of 2023, when opinion polls suggested a significant rightward shift before the 2024 parliamentary elections. Environment groups say the pace has picked up under the competition-focused agenda of the new European Commission.
The most striking examples are the “omnibus” packages that water down sustainable finance rules, some of which have been put on hold even before they came into force, and which member states proposed diluting further on Monday. The European Commission has promised more simplification measures to “radically lighten the regulatory load” on people and businesses.
In the first six months of the new European Commission mandate, the EU also delayed a law to stop deforestation in supply chains by one year, gave carmakers two extra years to meet pollution targets and downgraded the protection status of the wolf. Environmental NGOs have found themselves in the crosshairs of a funding freeze they argue undermines democracy.
The political tensions reached a high this week after an anti-greenwashing law was seemingly killed in the final stages of negotiations.
What’s the logic behind that? If we’re setting fire to the planet anyway, let’s do it as fast as possible?
So delay instead of rollback?
The European Union’s authoritarianism momentum is also growing.
Fun, isn’t it.
I wonder why the majority of Europeans are against the green regulations. As if they couldn’t see the win of significantly increasing their cost of living or seeing their freedoms (aka driving) limited… Despite all the propaganda… Sorry, communication, about the climate Armageddon.
The EU also set fishing limits to prevent overfishing and they exceeded their own limits. So now they want to overfish UK waters because they have already depleted their own. They don’t care about the environment.
The fact that our current political archenemies are huge oil n gas-export economies, and that these hostile nations have shown themselves increasingly adept at mass political manipulation, are things we should always keep in mind when discussing these topics.
Edit:reformatting
As someone that is strongly affected by the omnibus package, I think some context is needed.
Many of the requirements that are being rolled back are administrative requirements such as reporting and record keeping and not necessarily going back on actual environment protection measures such as substance restrictions (of course not all, so some criticism is totally valid).
The overall aim (I think) is to lesson the regulatory burden on companies. For example I don’t know a single company that is able to comply with annex C of the taxonomy regulation, simply because the requirements are set too high and are unrealistic. The EU is now adjusting the bar with the omnibus package, hopefully making it more attainable.
The worst part is that climate change is going to increase geopolitical conflicts, not reduce them. There is a really dark vicious circle here.
Europe went full retard with the green policies. I am not against the ideas, but they should be implemented differently, so that they don’t drastically increase the cost of living and already high energy prices.
In a perfect world we wouldnt need oil, so that russia, arabian countries etc would go bankrupt and couldnt finance their wars and expansion and terrorism from money made by selling oil.
Next awful thing to come in 2026 would be ETS2 which would add about ten cents to petrol price, and also some random amount to the price of natural gas used for home heating. It would force buying of carbon credits by the gas and petrol sellers/suppliers and these would be forwarded to the consumers. The prices for carbon credits are unpredictable and can only increase.
Can you imagine how much more votes the far right would get from people who are mad at this scheme that will only drive prices up? The EU needs to do something constructive to not drive more voters to the right or other extremes
Other things that really should not have happened at all are all the reporting requirements that just add bureaucracy without doing anything useful
This just makes me mad and sad.
Certainly is the case in Canada too, our new PM, a supposed climate change champion, suddenly could care less. It’s whatever Trump wants, the world leaders are all too busy licking him up and down, climate change mitigation will be a relic from the near past.
Renewables lower the wholesale price of electricity through the merit order effect.. It’s a testament to the power of the Big Lie that fossil fuel interests have made so many believe the opposite.
A full rollback please. Thank you!
We need some degree of rollback because it’s unrealistic, it’s killing our economies. But we still need environmental policies.
China LOVES what we’re doing cause it makes us weak and dependent on them.