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Enabling our people to feed with local products is essential to guarantee food sovereignty and...
The fruit and vegetable sector is able to produce a large quantity of waste products which, if...
The high school “Da Vinci” in Gallarate joined the project A Scuola di Open Cohesion during the...
Everyday millions of people (students, collectivity workers) go to public catering services. This...

One of the European Union’s problems is that it is not consistent with the criteria of peace,...
Reduce the price of electricity within the EU to 10 ct. As a result, market-based mechanisms...
It should be easy for consumers to assess how a product is harmful to the climate. A points...
Hello, I would like a tax to be created in order to combat this overconsumption. the purpose of...
Europe has signed the green deal and targeted a reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions of...

We do not allow solar power plants to be used to damage nature.
Criminal circles have been squeezed on EU environmental subsidies and do not set up solar parks...
The Coron crisis has shown an important thing. More than 30 % of EU workers can work at home –...
Highway and main road traffic in several parts of Europe has become unbearably congested....
Trees produce a lot of wood and Europe imports a lot of wood. A spread of small plants for the...

Fusion appears to be an unlimited source of clean energy. However, a fundamental question still...

Today if you ask a random French person how many deaths they think Chernobyl has caused, they are...
— Subsidies only for farms with small areas — Promoting mixed crops — Supporting small-scale...
(This is one of 26 proposals developed by the participants of the Youth Workshop on the Future of...
Ecology from ideology. For an ecology of innovation and not punitive. Pragmatic Ecology therefore...
(This is one of 26 proposals prepared by the participants of the Youth Workshop on the future of...
The steel production process developed by the American company Boston Metal (through the...
Environmental awareness among children must begin at an early age. Families who care about these...
While a massive expansion of renewable energies is necessary, most European roofs are currently...
Um die Europäischen Klimaziele zu erreichen, ist ein massiver Ausbau der Erneuerbaren Energien...
Since 1992, the fight against global warming has been ineffective. The carbon footprint of...
Each consumer goods (food, heating oil, travel, etc.) should be associated with two prices: The...

Stop unrestricted deforestation and logging!
The reduction of carbon dioxide in the air is only controlled from the emissions side. But they...

Given that we are leading in producing plastic waste, that China and other countries shut...
Climate neutrality as the state objective of the “United States of Europe”, but immediately speed...
A simple reflection, would it not be possible to tax heavily or refuse to import products not...
Europe has too much air and road transport. The current pressure should not be further increased...
Animal agriculture is the single leading cause of global deforestation and is a major greenhouse...
We call on the EU to change the rules and subsidies in the agricultural policy in order to...

-Submitted on behalf of the Environmental Group of Czech CSOs-
Establish youth advisory bodies...
Currently the ETS only applies to certain carbon-emitting industries covering 40% of the EU's...
It is essential to promote nuclear power and to reintroduce it in Germany. It is not the future,...
Important steps for sustainable and inclusive reduction of negative environmental impacts in all...
Europe lacks high power power lines for transmission services of between 2500 and 5.000 MW. My...
Diesel and fuel oil are taxed at a lower rate than petrol. This subsidy (9,5 billion euro in 2015...
As far as I have heard and read, not all charging points and electric cars are compatible. This...
Europe has pledged to achieve the UN sustainability goals in 2030. Part of this is sustainable...
We need to change the way we grow crops. Agriculture consumes vast parts of our land and destroys...
Biodiversity is plummeting.
This means our modern way of life is killing animals and also...
This means our modern way of life is killing animals and also...
Create a corridor of wetlands, wooded areas, grasslands all X kilometres to recreate habitats...
Hydrogen should be perceived as an energy storage facility. It has already been proven that...
I think that, in addition to any ‘traditional’ renewable energy (sun, wind, water), the EU should...
Earth needs a real protection, and it needs it fast. Politicians and companies getting richer...
Plus energy houses already exist in various sizes. They are mostly passive houses plus pv. But...
My idea, simple and probably older than me, is to forbid local authorities, governments, fiscal...
I read this slogan somewhere, but don't know, who created it. The idea behind it is as simple as...
My idea is to promote the replacement of personal vehicles with fleets of electric autonomous...
Do not produce unnecessary garbage
Unfortunately, the dentists’ society has come to the conclusion that in almost all areas of life...
All emitters are taxed at a rate of EUR 0,15/L petrol for all emitters. Increase the tax rate by...
Nuclear energy must be integrated into the European taxonomy. * Citizens’ proposal issued at the...
Currently, greenhouse gas emissions are subject to a carbon market that only concerns the main...
(This is one of 26 proposals developed by the participants of the Youth Workshop on the future of...
(This is one of 26 proposals developed by the participants of the Youth Workshop on the future of...
Biogas plants must be assessed on the basis of their efficiency, which must not be that, for...
Free public transport (bus and rail) would allow many more people to use these means of...
Water and fertilizer, nature does the rest. And without endangering our prosperity.
Restore the...
Restore the...
Nuclear power plants are much more efficient and environmentally friendly than coal-fired power...
As pipeline and storage capacity in Europe is still not sufficiently developed (it is essential...
Habitats, such as forests and peatlands form an important carbon sink and storage. But, around...
The gradual storage of electricity must be promoted, and must not be penalised for tax purposes,...
A CO2 tax on all greenhouse gas emissions. The price of greenhouse gas emissions must be as high...
Rail today accounts for 7 % of passenger transport and 19 % of freight in Europe. This comes from...
If it is true that climate change is ‘humanised’, it would not be necessary to pay much greater...
In my personal opinion, it is easily possible to realise an almost 100 % recycling rate within...
Subsidies must be distributed according to ecological criteria, not by area. Organic food must...

This idea is a submission from the University of Nicosia Pharmaceutical students to the “Pitch...
Without a thriving industry, no additional tax revenues, so no financing of utopian environmental...
The production of heating energy in private households as well as in crafts and industry accounts...
People’s failures are very old. Trying to solve the problems in just a few years or decades is...
Oblige the Member States to put in place policies for the protection of insects. oblige Member...
The Chinese flooded us with their cheap electronics, which deliberately breaks down after a few...
Second 506 high school Descartes Tours: Create a European company rating index that takes into...
Green in the cities is indispensable and is increasingly disappearing to give way to car parks or...
Many politicians call for a more rapid transition from conventional cars to EVs. While in cities...
In some Member States, the expansion of solar installations needs to be massively expanded....
Successful climate protection requires the participation of all economic areas. Europe should...
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