Climate Action Network Europe
Budget
€8,016,737
EP Access
17
accredited persons
Staff
26
14.5 FTE
EU Grants
€1,375,392
Mission & Goals
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe is recognised as Europe's leading network working on climate and energy issues. With over 200 member organisations active in 40 European countries, representing over 1700 NGOs and more than 40 million citizens, CAN Europe unites to work to prevent dangerous climate change and promote sustainable energy and environment policy in Europe. The Climate Action Network (CAN) International is a worldwide network of over 1500 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 (...)
EU Legislative Interests
CAN Europe follows all files related to the EU's climate and energy policy framework, this includes in particular: - the ETS - non-ETS policies (ESD) - Industrial policies - international climate negotiations - Climate finance - EU budget - finance and development - fossil fuel subsidies - climate and agriculture - energy union - energy savings - renewable energy - coal power - energy community - climate and energy funds - climate and energy governance - EU/China relations - internal energy market
Communication Activities
CAN Europe mainly focuses on network coordination and advocacy and only organises a limited amount of reports and events.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
CAN International: The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 1500 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. CAN members work to achieve this goal through the coordination of information exchange and NGO strategy on international, regional and national climate issues. CAN has 15 regional offices which co-ordinate these efforts in Australia, Canada, China, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus, Europe, France, Latin America, North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States and West Africa.. CAN members place a high priority on both a healthy environment and development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (Brundtland Commission). Climate Action Network's vision is to protect the atmosphere while allowing for sustainable and equitable development worldwide. Green 10 The Green 10 consists of the ten leading environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active at EU level: BirdLife International (European Community Office) Climate Action Network Europe (CAN Europe) CEE Bankwatch Network European Environmental Bureau (EEB) European Federation of Transport and Environment (T&E) Health and Environment Alliance Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) Greenpeace Europe International Friends of Nature (IFN) WWF European Policy Office The organisations with the Green 10 work with the EU law-making institutions - the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers - to ensure that the environment is placed at the heart of policymaking. This includes working with our member organizations in the Member States to facilitate their input into the EU decision-making process.
Organisation Members
https://caneurope.org/members/#members-directory
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.