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Either Bruxelles or Strasbourg
Avatar: %{name} Betty Chatterjee 09/05/2021 13:43
It would be less environmentally-wasteful to choose just one city as an EU HQ. All who are...
Waste prevention
Avatar: %{name} Sabrina Hass 23/09/2021 17:39
In Germany, packaging waste is collected separately for 30 years. Despite the effort and costs...
Impact score for listed companies in Europe must be displayed on European stock exchanges
Avatar: %{name} Nathalie Thiollet 09/05/2021 12:54
By displaying their environmental and social impact scores on European stock exchange wires,...
Small steps to solve pollution
Avatar: %{name} La Nuova Europa 10/05/2021 13:17
In order to reduce the environmental impact caused by the extraction of lithium and the disposal...
Ending fossil fuel subsidies and improving the EU legislative process
Avatar: %{name} Ecologic Institute 19/05/2021 10:38
Member States subsidize fossil fuels. In 2018, total fossil fuel subsidies in the EU amounted to...
Switch heat supply with local and district heating to renewable energy
Avatar: %{name} Karin Irina Wust 22/08/2021 22:14
In larger municipalities, municipal (quarterly) heat conductive planning is necessary, i.e. it is...
Promote co-housing as a greener, more social way of living
Promote co-housing as a greener, more social way of living
Avatar: %{name} Alberto COTTICA 10/05/2021 11:11
Co-housing is a type of housing where different households share certain infrastructure – like...
Planned renewable energies
Avatar: %{name} Jorge Minghui Zhou 24/06/2021 12:20
One of the legs of the transition that “we want” will come from the hand of the “renewable”...
Support for the establishment of Territorial Economic Agencies in all European territories
Avatar: %{name} Pierre Calame 02/08/2021 08:30
Territorial cohesion policy has been one of the successes of the European Union and has enabled...
A dense European network of night train connections that offers viable alternatives to short and medium haul flights is possible!
A dense European network of night train connections that offers viable alternatives to short and medium haul flights is possible!
Avatar: %{name} Sebastian HANS 22/06/2021 15:36
To make rail connections an attractive alternative to air transport, Europe needs to invest a...
A European factory for territorial transitions and a European training programme for elected representatives and managers of local and regional authorities
Avatar: %{name} Pierre Calame 02/08/2021 09:01
There is a “revenge of territories”: they had lost their importance in the 19th and 20th...
Producing zero-carbon steel
Avatar: %{name} Marco Ferrari 24/08/2021 20:16
The steel production process developed by the American company Boston Metal (through the...
Reducing CO2 emissions in the European Union by means of laws
Avatar: %{name} Nils Harmsen 13/06/2021 17:18
It is nice to see that there are now fewer and fewer allowances available to companies and...
Costs and compensation
Avatar: %{name} Hubert Koegel 09/05/2021 02:14
To charge all products sold on the market with full external costs. These include environmental...
Use public consultation to engage communities to produce their own energy (Energy Cooperatives)
Avatar: %{name} Nicholas Clark 17/06/2021 12:26
Public consultation is the only way to
explore where we are (as communities),
and what we want to...
Taxation of fossil fuel combustion
Avatar: %{name} Erik De Bruin 01/06/2021 21:25
Would like to see a Europe-wide fuel tax. We have a CO2 tax, but why do we not tax fuels that...
Limiting light pollution
Avatar: %{name} Diana Fernández Acuña 01/06/2021 14:14
When we have landmarks pointing to the space lit all night in places where nobody spends energy...
Prohibition of certain energy-intensive cryptocurrencies
Avatar: %{name} Miroslav Píša 01/06/2021 15:23
The EU should tackle the use of some cryptocurrencies, in particular using the Proof Of Work...
Construction of high voltage power lines with direct current. Alternative execution.
Avatar: %{name} Wolfgang Dipl. Ing. Fischer 28/05/2021 10:02
Europe lacks high power power lines for transmission services of between 2500 and 5.000 MW. My...
Energy and food, pillars of the ecological transition
Avatar: %{name} Quentin Barotte 23/04/2021 19:20
The European Union brings together 27 countries with very different energy policies, as everyone...
In revising the Energy Taxation Directive, support companies for the transformation towards low-carbon economy in the best possible way
Avatar: %{name} Wirtschaftskammer Österreich 22/06/2021 11:29
Also in view of the planned revision of the Energy Taxation Directive, measures and instruments...
Shift to regenerative agriculture
Avatar: %{name} Chiara Margaretha Przybilla 25/05/2021 20:59
Europe has pledged to achieve the UN sustainability goals in 2030. Part of this is sustainable...
Until when does it lie?
Avatar: %{name} António Rede 22/04/2021 22:32
There is no longer innocent in this climate crisis affecting the planet. We are all trying to...
European Sustainability tax
Avatar: %{name} Chiara Margaretha Przybilla 25/05/2021 20:59
If we want sustainability, why not create a sustainability tax for all products from inside and...
Protect 25% of our oceans to protect and restore biodiversity
Avatar: %{name} Bru Wac 25/05/2021 16:57
Protect 25% of our oceans to protect and restore biodiversity in the long term
Reducing noise or noise pollution
Avatar: %{name} A Natalia 08/05/2021 01:33
Babies and children with cognitive disorders are the main ones affected by the constant and...
Periodicly present Results and Comparison
Avatar: %{name} thierry duchateau 20/04/2021 12:08
EU is number one for Climatic matters. But will it serve the cause if you are comparing and...
A Standard Guideline for Sorting Rubbish
Avatar: %{name} Katherine Plummer 25/05/2021 17:43
Nowadays more and more countries are separating or starting to separate their rubbish, so that it...
Pilot project plus energy housing areas
Avatar: %{name} Chiara Margaretha Przybilla 25/05/2021 20:59
We have a lot of problems to be solved at the same time. Socio-economic problems as well as...
Stop polluting the Mediterranean see
Avatar: %{name} Bru Wac 22/05/2021 18:52
Europe must act to stop the pollution in the Mediterranean see. An agreement must be found...
Limiting free trade agreements to what we can produce
Avatar: %{name} Damien Cmoi 08/05/2021 11:50
We no longer need to sign free trade agreements on what we can produce locally (within Europe)...
Consumers’ right to redress — labelling
Avatar: %{name} Representación Comisión Europea España 24/05/2021 15:11
Proposal of participants for the 12 May event: the right to redress should be recognised in...
European reforestation
Avatar: %{name} Wojciech PISULA 08/05/2021 14:58
European reforestation The forests are important for the quality of life of contemporary people...
Not fuels, but plastics first
Avatar: %{name} Robert Stepanek 22/04/2021 15:11
It is clear that phasing out fossil fuels is a good step towards more effective environmental...
Introduce environmental currency
Avatar: %{name} Anton Nonne 22/05/2021 16:32
Introduce an environmental currency in the EU that assesses the environmental pressures of...
Vertical turbines, instead of conventional wind turbines
Avatar: %{name} Christian Loth 07/05/2021 16:22
Vertical turbines are more efficient as smaller, fewer maintenance and surfaces are not wasted....
Establishment of a Trans-EU Online Commerce Platform for EU Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Avatar: %{name} Antje Heid-Schwaab 07/05/2021 15:40
For small and medium-sized retailers (= SMEs) and bookshops, Europe needs a common digital...
SNE harmful subsidies to stop overfishing
Avatar: %{name} Marie-Morgane Rouyer 22/05/2021 01:22
We need to show the way within Europe and end harmful subsidies that have negative consequences...
GHG emission class label
Avatar: %{name} Mirko Ermini 20/04/2021 12:30
Introduce a label that makes the GHG emission level of a product, system, vehicle, home or...
Enter into energy partnerships with economic areas
Avatar: %{name} Wirtschaftskammer Österreich 22/06/2021 11:35
The European Union must see itself more as an actor that creates the conditions for climate...
Local associations for the recovery of bio-waste
Local associations for the recovery of bio-waste
Avatar: %{name} Salvatore Di Pisa 06/05/2021 17:07
Dear everyone, I am the engineer Di Pisa Salvatore. Please find below my idea of social...
Green Deal
Avatar: %{name} GEORGIOS ZISIS TEGOS 22/04/2021 08:18
If we accept that the Green Deal is the new growth strategy that seeks to transform the European...
I want intensive livestock farming to disappear:
Avatar: %{name} Mia Romy 20/05/2021 11:46
In Germany, 60 % of the land is used for animal feed. In determining how much subsidy a holding...
Foreign and neighborhood policy to be used as environmental policy
Avatar: %{name} Alejandro LAFARGA 19/05/2021 14:41
The young people coming from all Mediterranean to participate in the event “Europe Day: Views and...
Stricter and homogeneus environmental legislation across the EU
Avatar: %{name} Alejandro LAFARGA 19/05/2021 14:35
The young people coming from all Mediterranean to participate in the event “Europe Day: Views and...
All household refuse in the EU should be sorted at source
Avatar: %{name} Ellen Johansson 05/05/2021 13:28
National authorities should take responsibility for all sorting of sources in the EU instead of...
How to deal with the geopolitical consequences of an EU carbon tax?
Avatar: %{name} Marco MARINGONI 20/04/2021 09:25
The USA, the PRC, Australia (and possibly others) have protested against the idea of the EU to...
Climate tax on freight
Avatar: %{name} Joram Zieltjens 05/05/2021 11:10
The EU could impose a tax on how long goods are transported before they arrive at home. In other...
Genuine Conservation of nature
Genuine Conservation of nature
Avatar: %{name} Susanna Sajankoski 19/04/2021 21:20
The world’s beautiful, green, quiet and ideal treasures should not be the target of environmental...
Individual CO2 emissions
Avatar: %{name} Jorge Gaspar 19/05/2021 17:21
Establish indicative CO2 emission limits for each consumer: — categorise consumption of goods and...
Working together to develop a blueprint
Avatar: %{name} Heike Greskötter-Drawer 04/05/2021 23:15
It is important that all people are taken on board in the joint management or mitigation of...
Imposing a penalty per country above a threshold on the amount of carbon footprint
Avatar: %{name} Mihaela Moreau 04/05/2021 20:48
As well as penalties for car manufacturers, imposing carbon footprint penalties on each Member...
Plant a tree for a kid
Avatar: %{name} Bartosz Marcisz 04/05/2021 07:33
There is an old and beautiful tradition in Poland to celebrate a child’s birth by planting a tree...
Increase the mandatory guarantee for the defect of products from two to 5 years
Avatar: %{name} Jozef Stasik 03/05/2021 15:39
If the EU is serious about ecology, this is a crucial step. A washing machine that breaks down...
A solution for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
Avatar: %{name} Parisot Paul 03/05/2021 16:12
Hello, in the face of climate change, the objective is clear to reduce our greenhouse gas...
Proposal for the whole European Commission and all around the EU
Avatar: %{name} Stanislav Paláček 21/04/2021 16:37
I could not vote in the accession referendum and I want regular referendums. The EU is not a...
More green electricity!
Avatar: %{name} Linda Milanov 18/05/2021 15:02
We are driving less cars with petrol, but with electric cars, but only with green electricity...
Reduction of bottles for personal hygiene
Avatar: %{name} Simone Amorati 20/04/2021 08:11
Every year, an average person consumes 11 bottles of bath foam, producing tonnes of plastic...
Promoting sustainable livestock farming and discouraging intensive livestock farming
Avatar: %{name} Angelo Sinuello 02/05/2021 11:43
I propose that the incentives for livestock farming be given not on the basis of the number of...
Combat the nuisance of both motorised wheels (2RM)
Avatar: %{name} Michel GRIVEAU 21/05/2021 14:29
There is much talk about the nuisance of aircraft, it is very fashion and politically correct,...
Integrated photovoltaics in the fight against climate change and as an opportunity for a sustainable energy transition
Integrated photovoltaics in the fight against climate change and as an opportunity for a sustainable energy transition
Avatar: %{name} Dennis Jöckel 16/05/2021 16:50
Integrated photovoltaics is already studied all over the world, but in my opinion the topics...
Reducing climate impact through a security architecture based on trust, empatia and peace
Reducing climate impact through a security architecture based on trust, empatia and peace
Avatar: %{name} Andreu Ginestet 30/04/2021 15:59
One of the European Union’s problems is that it is not consistent with the criteria of peace,...
Disappearance of insects
Avatar: %{name} francoise de Closset 30/04/2021 13:34
Oblige the Member States to put in place policies for the protection of insects. oblige Member...
Climate change action
Avatar: %{name} Karin Duperray 16/05/2021 07:10
Much more roof grooves/roof gardens for particulate filtration, climate improvement, temperature...
European charging network for electric vehicles
Avatar: %{name} Fabrizio Bogo 29/04/2021 17:50
To speed up the energy transition and incentivise the transition to electric transport, I propose...
Stop commercial fishing
Avatar: %{name} Dagmar Frick-Deby 14/05/2021 19:14
Prohibition of commercial driftnets fishing: — Destruction of the ecosystem in the sea > has...
Don't complain — As citizens themselves develop a vehicle and bring it to series production
Don't complain — As citizens themselves develop a vehicle and bring it to series production
Avatar: %{name} Schel Michael 15/05/2021 21:54
We can develop ultra-light vehicles up to serial maturity, which offer as much convenience and...
Pay farmers and land owner to replant trees
Avatar: %{name} Bru Wac 13/05/2021 23:11
In order to replant trees massively, the EU should pay farmers and land owner to replant trees...
Fighting against rural depopulation by avoiding the overcrowding of cities that is causing a situation of unsustainability.
Avatar: %{name} Miruna Cristina Necula 29/04/2021 15:27
Since the Industrial Revolution, a disregard for the rural environment has developed. Staying in...
Atomy_wahre_Costs
Avatar: %{name} Maria Bauer 21/04/2021 08:44
I think that the ‘real’ cost of nuclear energy must be set. In order to cover all the costs of an...
Make the bycicle and walking the first transport mode in our cities
Avatar: %{name} Bru Wac 13/05/2021 23:14
This will reduce pollution and make people have a better health, while at the same time reduce...
Alternative nuclear power generation
Avatar: %{name} Jean-Marc Furlano 13/05/2021 15:08
The European Union should look into alternative nuclear power sources such as Thorium reactors or...
Future and Nature Capital
Future and Nature Capital
Avatar: %{name} Truus en Peter UNKNOWN 27/04/2021 23:07
I would like to see the preservation and regeneration of Natural Capital given greater priority....
Extinguish forest fires quickly
Avatar: %{name} Hellmuth Stumpf 27/04/2021 17:15
Every year there are forest fires in the EU, which are hardly brought under the control of the...
Reuse of vehicles through electrification by cutting red tape
Avatar: %{name} Diana Fernández Acuña 17/05/2021 18:51
Europe wants to replace the existing diesel and petrol car fleet with electric vehicles. For that...
Europe needs a political strategy to end energy poverty
Europe needs a political strategy to end energy poverty
Avatar: %{name} Matthieu Meunier 27/04/2021 11:49
Member States can and should now take more ambitious actions against energy poverty. As seen in...
Building a clean mobility system in times of COVID-19
Building a clean mobility system in times of COVID-19
Avatar: %{name} Matthieu Meunier 27/04/2021 11:39
This paper takes stock of the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on our mobility and the...
Joining forces to ensure a green and social recovery
Joining forces to ensure a green and social recovery
Avatar: %{name} Matthieu Meunier 27/04/2021 11:08
With the European Green Deal, the green transition has moved to the top of the EU political...
European Commission
Avatar: %{name} Zsuzsanna Szászné Molnár 20/04/2021 18:24
In relation to nature protection and green themes in general, I propose to focus, in addition to...
Urban and urban farms!
Avatar: %{name} Nicolas POUSSIN 20/04/2021 18:24
Today, urban areas are the most emitting areas of human activity, but they also represent an...
Insect niches
Avatar: %{name} francoise de Closset 26/04/2021 18:22
At the beginning of the food chain, insects play a key role in pollination. Municipalities should...
Free trade and transit traffic
Avatar: %{name} Werner Riess 13/05/2021 11:45
Our motorways are covered by lorries at least in one lane with intervals of 100 m. On the other...
For primarily vegetable feed
For primarily vegetable feed
Avatar: %{name} roberto rota 12/05/2021 17:37
For years, we have been aware of the main causes of climate change, i.e. the emission of...
Help bees and create a beautiful life!
Avatar: %{name} Sophia Wallot 12/05/2021 19:47
There should be more streublum meadows. A streublumenwiese could be created in the curtain. This...
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