On Thursday April 21, The European Green Party celebrated the opening for signatures of the COP21 Paris Agreement which coincides with Earth Day

The Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), presented this morning in Stockholm confirms the dire threat posed by the effects of climate change, and makes it very clear that drastic measures must be taken. Commenting on the report, Reinhard Bütikofer MEP and Co-Chair of the European Green Party said:

An update from Delphine Chalençon over at the Stop Climate Change blog on the outcome of the Rio+20 conference.

After much hype, the Rio+20 conference failed to come even close to generating the sort of excitement and momentum that emerged from the first conference.This piece from Ecolo looks at what the conference produces,and asks what is next for the green movement.

This declaration and the manner in which it was shunted through means Rio +20 will represent a monumental failure for the necessary global action to respond to the global ecological crises.

Spain, Portugal and Italy are living beyond their ecological means. The dependency on energy and imports of fossil fuels plays a crucial role for the debt dynamics in Europe.