*[Enwl-eng] The long game
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Will you help make sure we can plan the most effective campaigns to keep turning the tide on plastic pollution? Thanks to the determination of each and every one of us, plastic polluters will soon have to pay. |
Hi Vladimir,
Last week the EU institutions met for the final time to thrash out the ban on the worst single-use plastics. [1] It was the final stage in the negotiating process and it represents just how far we’ve come. >From our 750,000 strong petition, to Monday’s front-page newspaper ad asking the country holding the EU presidency, Austria, to back our demands. Together we’ve come a long way.
Just last week the EU decided that big companies churning out plastic to make more money are finally going to have to pay for the plastic pollution they put into our environment. [2]
It’s taken many many months of work on this campaign, thousands of hours of campaigning and a strategy to make sure every decision maker in the EU saw our demands. It was only possible because hundreds of people in the WeMove community chip in a few euros each month - these regular donations are the key to being able to map out a long-term campaign strategy.
Our community is working hard to stop the tide of plastic pollution and protect our environment.
Will you chip in a few euros a month to make sure we can plan the most effective campaigns to keep turning the tide on plastic pollution?
| Yes, I’ll donate €8 a month |
| Yes, I’ll donate €15 a month |
| Yes, I’ll donate €30 a month |
| I’ll surprise you! |
Early on in the campaign, our community chipped in to put powerful billboards across Brussels showing the horrors of plastic pollution for our wildlife. Our community sent almost 100,000 emails to our MEPs, asking them to vote for a strong single-use plastics law. We’ve played the long game. And it’s working.
Last year: Our billboard campaign in Brussels, and delivering petition signatures with our partners to Frans Timmermans, Vice President of the European Commission
Please will you chip in to help us play the long game on other important environmental issues? The future of our wildlife is at stake:
| Yes, I’ll donate €8 a month |
| Yes, I’ll donate €15 a month |
| Yes, I’ll donate €30 a month |
| I’ll surprise you! |
Thanks to our community and our partners [3], our politicians heard our calls with emails, petition signatures, billboards, through the media, and in-person outside their offices. Now we can look forward to strong European laws that make plastic polluters pay!
Thanks for turning the tide,
Mika (Bordeaux), Giulio (Rome), Virginia
(Madrid), and the rest of us at WeMove.EU
PS: Regular donors sustain our movement and give our community the independence and flexibility to put our resources where they matter most. Please chip in a small regular donation to help us get all the way there, so we can continue moving Europe together.
References:
[1] The Parliament has been negotiating with the EU Council in
what is known as “trilogues,” because all three EU institutions take part and
negotiate for the final law to be voted on by the Parliament. The final trilogue
was on 18 December.
[2]
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018/10/31/eu-acts-to-restrict-plastic-pollution-council-agrees-its-stance/#
[3]
Including #Aufstehn, GLOBAL2000 (Friends of the Earth - Austria), SumOfUs, and
countless others
WeMove.EU is a citizens’ movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere.
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