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Brussels, 2 October 2024 – More than 30 leading climate and social justice groups under the United for Climate Justice (UCJ) coalition have issued an urgent open letter to EU leaders, calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies by 2025. The letter, addressed to the Presidents of the European Commission, Council, and Parliament, and candidate commissioners, comes as frustration mounts over the EU’s failure to make meaningful progress on its climate commitments.  The open letter—co-signed by over 130 academics and prominent organisations including Oxfam, ActionAid International, 350.org, Legambiente and Laudato Si Movement—demands that EU leaders lay out a comprehensive and transparent roadmap to

The climate crisis demands for European movements to join forces and take action together On Saturday 6 April, nine countries across Europe organised non-violent civil disobedience actions. United for Climate Justice (UCJ), a platform of various grassroot and climate movements, is coordinating these actions. 30 climate movements have already joined this international platform. UCJ demands that all European Union (EU) member states immediately end all subsidies to the fossil industry. EU endangering its citizens by sponsoring big corporations Spokesperson of UCJ: “The IPCC report 2023 shows that greenhouse gas emissions must be radically reduced – but instead, governments and the European Union