12 green NGOs write to the Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the EU, calling on them to use the Critical Raw Materials Act to ensure that the sourcing of these minerals does not replace one bad dependency with another.
Transport & Environment, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, WWF, Friends of the Earth, European Environmental Bureau, Birdlife Europe, and big German and Spanish NGOs Deutsche Umwelthilfe and Ecologistas en Acción call for the CRM Act to do 3 things:
The average price of an EV in Europe has increased – despite battery prices hitting record lows
The new European Commission has committed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and ensure a just green transition, now it has to deliver on this promise...
The European Commission has committed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies - now it needs to act.