Involved Organisations
ECOS
ECOS is a Brussels-based umbrella organisation representing the main European Environmental NGOs in standardisation and technical implementation of policies.
ECOS aims at increasing the ecological performance of products, ensuring sound measurement methods for pollutants, greening management systems in businesses and improving consumer information towards sustainable consumption.
ECOS is mainly involved in monitoring the activities of the international standardisation bodies (CEN, CENELEC, ISO, IEC) and product policies at EU level (such as the Directive on the 'Ecodesign of Energy-Using Products').
ECOS is a membership organisation, open to NGOs active on a European or a national level. It was established in 2002 as a non-profit association under the Belgian law. It is funded by membership fees, the European Commission, the European Climate Foundation and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). Its secretariat is based in Brussels.
European Environmental Bureau
EEB (European Environmental Bureau) is Europe’s largest federation of environmental citizens’ organisations, with 145 member organisations based in all EU Member States and most Accession Countries, as well as in a few neighbouring countries. EEB aims to protect and improve the environment of Europe and to enable its citizens to play their part in achieving that goal.
The EEB has an information and press service, runs 12 specialised Working Groups of EEB members, produces position papers on topics that are, or should be, on the EU agenda and represents the Membership in regular discussions with European institutions.
Greenpeace Europe
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:
- Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change.
- Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.
- Protecting the world’s ancient forests and the animals, plants and people that depend on them.
- Working for disarmament and peace by tackling the causes of conflict and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
- Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing.
- Campaining for sustainable agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered organisms, protecting biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible farming.
Greenpeace European Unit is based in Brussels, monitoring and analysing the work of the institutions of the European Union (EU), exposing deficient EU policies and laws, and challenging decision-makers to implement progressive solutions.
INFORSE - Europe
INFORSE- Europe is one of the 7 regions of the International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE), a worldwide NGO network formed at the Global Forum in Rio in 1992.
INFORSE-Europe has 75 members from 32 countries. It is a meeting place for NGOs working on grassroots level as well as on national, regional and international levels, all united on a common strategy for a long- term sustainable development with phasing out of nuclear and fossil energy use.
INFORSE lobbies to promote sustainable energy solutions - renewable energy and energy efficiency - which utilise decentralised approaches. All activities seek to protect the environment, and to achieve development.
CAN - Europe
Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E) is recognised as Europe's leading network working on climate and energy issues. With over 100 members in 25 european countries, CAN-E unites to work to prevent dangerous climate change and promote sustainable energy and environment policy in Europe.
CAN-E is part of the international Climate Action Network (CAN), a worldwide network of over 365 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government, private sector and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. CAN is based on trust, openness and democracy.
The vision of CAN is a world striving actively towards and achieving the protection of the global climate in a manner that promotes equity and social justice between peoples, sustainable development of all communities, and protection of the global environment. CAN unites to work towards this vision.
CAN's mission is to support and empower civil society organisations to influence the design and development of an effective global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure its implementation at international, national and local levels in the promotion of equity and sustainable development.
WWF European Policy Office
WWF's Mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
WWF’s European Policy Office was established in 1989. It is the ‘embassy’ to the European Union for the global WWF network, which is active in 100 countries. The WWF European Policy Office helps realize WWF’s mission to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
The European Policy Office contributes to the achievement of WWF’s global mission by leading the WWF network to shape EU policies impacting on the European and global environment.