EU climate policy ‘not coherent’, says QCEA

‘Actions to build sustainable peace and tackle the climate crisis must be mutually complementary.'

by Rebecca Hardy 4th June 2021

A new report by Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has said the European Union climate policy is ‘not always coherent’ with the bloc’s stance on peace and human rights. The new report on climate, peace and human rights also says that the ‘EU’s increasingly militarised approaches to foreign policy directly impedes its declared climate aims’. It adds that ‘Europe’s military sectors operate under a state of exemption, highlighting wide gaps in military emissions’ reporting by EU member states’.