Today, April 23rd, the Plenary of the European Parliament voted in favour of a new law to reduce plastic pellet pollution in the environment. Ska Keller is shadow rapporteur for the Greens/EFA Group on that file in the ENVI Committee.

Plastic pellets, the raw material for any plastic product, cause huge damage to flora, fauna and human health when spilled. The latest example for that is the environmental catastrophe at the Galician coast that happened in December 2023. Now, the European Commission wants to tackle the issue of…

Thirteen years have passed since Human Rights Defenders Bety Cariño from Mexico and Jyri Jaakkola from Finland were murdered as part of a humanitarian caravan. Thirteen years of impunity, suffering and the fight for justice.

From Monday, December 11th to Thursday, December 14th 2023, selected pieces which were submitted for the international art competition under the theme “Semillas Que Florecen / The Seed Rises” will be exhibited in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The art was created in memory of killed Human…

We invite you to participate in the memory of Beti Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola through your art. The two activists and human rights defenders were murdered in 2010 as members of a humanitarian caravan bringing support to the Triqui community of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, Mexico.

This morning, the European Commission presented an action plan to end bottom trawling. In the "Action Plan for the Conservation of Fisheries Resources and Marine Ecosystems", the EU Commission calls for an end to the use of bottom trawling gear in marine protected areas from 2030. The Greens/EFA…