EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Despite the EU's headline grabbing efforts at combating climate change, a coalition of ten green pressure groups has given the outgoing commission a failing grade for its efforts on the environment over the past five years. The 'Green 10', a group of the ten main environmental NGOs operating in Brussels, including Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the WWF, say that from 2004 to 2009, though there have been some bright spots, for the most part, the Barroso commission was "worse than the [previous] Prodi commission". The environment commissioner, Greece's Stavros Dimas, emerged as an unlikely hero "The EU is still on the road to environmental degradation," Jorgo Riss of Greenpeace, told reporters on Wednesday (10 June) when presenting the report. In an examination of 12 policy areas including climate, biodiversity, transport, agriculture and health, the groups gave the Barroso commission a rating of 4.4 out of ten.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Despite the EU's headline grabbing efforts at combating climate change, a coalition of ten green pressure groups has given the outgoing commission a failing grade for its efforts on the environment over the past five years.
The 'Green 10', a group of the ten main environmental NGOs operating in Brussels, including Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the WWF, say that from 2004 to 2009, though there have been some bright spots, for the most part, the Barroso commission was "worse than the [previous] Prodi commission".
The environment commissioner, Greece's Stavros Dimas, emerged as an unlikely hero
"The EU is still on the road to environmental degradation," Jorgo Riss of Greenpeace, told reporters on Wednesday (10 June) when presenting the report.
In an examination of 12 policy areas including climate, biodiversity, transport, agriculture and health, the groups gave the Barroso commission a rating of 4.4 out of ten.
