Director nature, health and envt at EEB ; mum of 2 working hard for a liveable future 🌍 #sustainability #agri #biodiversity 🌿🐞 views are my own
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Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
On #WorldNGODay, we made it clear: #CivilSociety is the backbone of our democracy!
We call for stronger protection & support for those defending #HumanRights & the #RuleOfLaw, workers & businesses.
Their voices shape our future - let’s ensure they are heard, not silenced!
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
This week @tenBrinkPatrick, @BasDefossez and
@toxicfreefuture met @JessikaRoswall to discuss the vital role of civil society in decision-making and the urgent need to tackle chemical pollution under the EU Green Deal, to move towards a #toxicfreefuture.
Thanks to Commissioner @JessikaRoswall for a good meeting and stressing that civil society and work of NGOs are essential. We in particular talked about #PFAs scandal and the urgent need for the EU to make Europe the first PFAS-free continent. We count on you to lead the way.
Insightful meeting with @tenBrinkPatrick , Secretary General of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and team today.
My Xmas wish? That green santa offers the recent @IPBES reports to those in @EPPGroup who are about to launch a war against nature environment.ec.europa.eu/new…
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
🚨 Europe’s environmental crisis is intensifying, yet environmental defenders are facing more resistance and risk than ever.
🧐 @YEEnetwork's @EPagliarusco explores their role and how the #BeLIFE project can #SupportEnvDefenders:
meta.eeb.org/2024/12/10/beli…
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
The EU's new agriculture chief, @CHansenEU, faces a defining moment.
He inherits:
✅Farmer protests demanding fairness
✅Historic consensus for reform
✅A mandate to deliver bold, systemic change
@DeSchutterO explains how Europe can meet the challenge👇
euobserver.com/eu-political/…
Après les agissements inacceptables de la @FNSEA envers l'@INRAE_France '240 chercheurs soulignent que des transitions radicales sont nécessaires et que la recherche doit rester indépendante pour faire face aux enjeux monumentaux du XXIᵉ siècle👇 lemonde.fr/idees/article/202…
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
“The big problem in Europe is this incapacity to not give way to lobbies and put public health first”, prof. @HercbergS told @POLITICOEurope.
Commissioners @CHansenEU and @OliverVarhelyi can still prove him wrong when presenting the upcoming Vision for Agriculture and Food …🤓
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
Did you know that:
👩🌾Only ≈30% of EU farms are run by women
💰And their income is >1/3 lower than those owned by men
🔴Our @BasDefossez is at @EP_Agriculture to discuss the challenges and opportunities for #GenderEquality in EU food and farming. Tune in: multimedia.europarl.europa.e…
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
On stage @vrecionova @DrNagyIstvn1 @EUAgri's DG W.Burtscher, Mr Petersen #NAT @EUCoR, @BasDefossez, @masgiansanti answering to:
What do we want to see in the vision for agriculture and food?
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
LIVE🔴
Tune in now to watch EEB's @BasDefossez and 5 other panellists kick off this year's #EUAgriFoodDays with a debate on the future of EU #FoodAndFarming, the #CAP, the #StrategicDialogue outcomes, and the upcoming Vision for Agriculture & Food💬
🧵👇xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1kvJpbOWj…
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
Europe's current agriculture and food systems are simply not sustainable, severely harming:
😷The air we breathe
🥤The water we drink
🪱Soil health
🪲Vital ecosystems
...all while failing the vast majority of farmers and costing EU taxpayers billions each year...
ALT "To understand where we need to go, we need to know where we're starting from, and part of that is understanding the cost of inaction. Our unsustainable agriculture and food systems are making farmers and consumers sick, harming biodiversity and contributing to climate change. We need urgent action now. Not tomorrow."
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
A lot of consumer blaming for making 'wrong' food choices @ #EUAgriFoodDays. Luckily @BasDefossez sets the record straight: consumer choices are heavily shaped by commercial actors (industry, retail).
More on how in @beuc @Act4AnimalsEU @EPHA_EU report 👇
beuc.eu/sites/default/files/…
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
🎉🌱Happy #WorldSoilDay!🪱✨
But why does it matter? Well, one good reason: #soil is literally the foundation of life as we know it..
🥕providing 95% of our food
💧filtering and storing water
🧑🌾protecting farmer livelihoods
But soil isn’t invincible🧵👇
meta.eeb.org/2023/12/05/4-th…
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
🧐 When politics trumps science, what’s at stake? #SaveTheWolf
Can farmers and environmentalists ever agree on restoring nature?
🎙️ Hear @BasDefossez unpack the battles of EU environmental policymaking on the latest Tommy's Outdoors podcast.
🎧 Tune in: pod.fo/e/28a856
Politics and demagogy trumping science is what we have seen with the unfounded attacks against wolves which resulted in sentencing many of them to death in the Bern Convention meeting . The problem with that dangerous game is that in the end everybody will lose from it... 👇
🧐 When politics trumps science, what’s at stake? #SaveTheWolf
Can farmers and environmentalists ever agree on restoring nature?
🎙️ Hear @BasDefossez unpack the battles of EU environmental policymaking on the latest Tommy's Outdoors podcast.
🎧 Tune in: pod.fo/e/28a856
Welcome again to the new
@EU_Commission! My organisation @Green_Europe did some research for you and found that water in your hometowns is polluted by toxic #PFAS .We can't stop drinking but you have the POWER to stop our poisoning by banning PFAS! #BanPFAS #ToxicFreeFuture👇
🇪🇺 New @EU_Commission
☣️Increasing and unregulated use of PFAS in industry and consumer products has led to widespread contamination in Europe
💦Water is one of the main human exposure pathways to #foreverchemicals
🚨EU #PFAS restriction is an urgent priority
yes: @lgewessler demonstrated on the @NatureRestorationLaw that she is a true leader who cares about general interest and the future of our children
Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
🔴Live
Are you following #POLITICOSustainableWeek? Then tune in now for a discussion on what the EU's largest budget can do to support farmers, nature and future #FoodSecurity – featuring the EEB's own @BasDefossez 🧵👇
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Faustine Bas-Defossez retweeted
“The #CAP is the symptom rather than the disease - the disease is our current #FoodSystem”, @Green_Europe’s @BasDefossez tells #POLITICOSustainableWeek. “Yet it is an important tool that needs to be overhauled”.
