“We regret that protecting nature was not front and centre” of Ursula von der Leyen’s policies and speech, said Steve Trent, founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), on Thursday 18 July, following the re-election of the President of the European Commission for a further term (see EUROPE B13456A1).
Greenpeace Europe, Can Europe, theWWF and the EJF have more or less all said the same thing: the ‘Green Deal’ has not disappeared from Ursula von der Leyen’s programme,...