*[Enwl-eng] Protect our green recovery

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      WeMove members fought to get a green recovery. Now fossil fuel 
industries are exploiting a loophole in our democracy to get their hands on 
the funds. Tell politicians on Facebook or Twitter: don’t let them get away 
with it - keep our COVID recovery green.

Hi,

We’re so close. WeMove members convinced European leaders to kick fossil 
fuel companies out of our COVID recovery funding. But now powerful lobbyists 
are exploiting a loophole in our democracy to access the money - and we don’t 
have long to stop them.

In October, we had a huge win when European politicians voted to back a 
green recovery at a crucial committee meeting. [1] But now their lobbyists 
have convinced the decisive finance committee to adopt a pro-fossil fuel 
plan as the official position of the Parliament. That’s bad news because it 
could stop a full vote at parliament, giving just a handful of MEPs the 
final say.

We have a plan to make sure the fossil fuel industry doesn’t derail our 
democracy and get their hands on billions of Euros meant for our COVID 
recovery. We’ll contact the leaders of four main groups of MEPs via Facebook 
and Twitter, asking them to back a full session of Parliament to vote 
against fossil fuels coming back into the recovery plan. Then they’ll know: 
no matter how much pressure comes from lobbyists, people power is stronger.

            Post a message on Dacian Cioloș Facebook wall

            Tweet at Dacian Cioloș


Here are some examples of messages you can easily use on their Facebook 
walls (but a personal message will have a much stronger effect so please use 
your own words if you can):

  1.. Fossil fuel companies are powerful. But they shouldn’t be more 
powerful than our democracy. If the decision on how we spend our recovery 
money is moved to the next stage of negotiations without a full vote in the 
European Parliament, it will be a bad day for democracy and a disastrous day 
for our climate. Every MEP should get a chance to have their say.

  2.. The recovery package is huge: 670 billion Euros. It’s no surprise 
fossil fuel companies want a big share of the money. But their industry is 
putting the climate - and the lives of hundreds of millions of Europeans in 
the future - in grave danger. Every MEP should get a chance to say no.

  3.. The European parliament said that all member states must become 
climate neutral by 2050. But this won’t happen if the money from European 
recovery plan goes into the pockets of the fossil fuel industries. Every MEP 
should have a chance to vote on this.

  4.. Gas is just another dirty fossil fuel. New fossil gas infrastructure 
would lock in emission increases for decades. Every MEP should have their 
say on the recovery plan.

  5.. No parliament that has declared a climate emergency can afford to bail 
out fossil fuel industries again, including gas. The compromise on the 
recovery plan is just not enough. All MEP’s should vote on this.
There is a process we can use to make sure the Parliament gets to have their 
say. 10% of MEPs have to object to the idea that the committee's decision 
goes to negotiations without a full vote of the Parliament. Then, once MEPs 
have permission to vote, we need a majority to reject the plan to hand money 
to fossil fuels, making the climate crisis even worse. Then MEPs will have a 
chance to come back to Parliament with a better plan next time. [2]

Can you share a message - using Facebook or Twitter - to key MEPs, telling 
them to act fast to ensure the plan gets a proper, democratic process at the 
European Parliament?

            Post a message on Dacian Cioloș Facebook wall

            Tweet at Dacian Cioloș


WeMove members have already shown that when we work together, we can 
convince MEPs to back a green recovery. In October, we persuaded the 
environment committee to kick fossil fuels out of the recovery plan. Now we 
need to do it again with all MEPs to make sure our recovery plan defends our 
climate, as well as our economies.

In solidarity,
David (London), Alex (Marseille), Mika (Bordeaux) and the entire WeMove 
Europe team



References:
[1] 
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/lawmakers-vote-to-exclude-fossil-fuels-from-eu-recovery-fund/
[2] 
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RULES-9-2020-02-03-RULE-059_EN.html



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From: David - WeMove Europe
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 7:37 PM
Subject: Protect our green recovery

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