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Promoting renewable energy schemes for energy security and climate action: lessons from Lithuania

Promoting renewable energy schemes for energy security and climate action: lessons from Lithuania

The Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania, the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations in New York, and the Lithuanian Development Cooperation Platform, with the help of supporting partners, invite you to the side event held on the occasion of the 2023 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), convened under the auspices of the...

STEP: SOLUTIONS TO TACKLE ENERGY POVERTY

STEP: SOLUTIONS TO TACKLE ENERGY POVERTY

Solutions to Tackle Energy Poverty (STEP) is a project to develop a simple, innovative and replicable model of measures to address energy poverty. The project covers some of the countries with the highest rates of energy poverty in Europe. These are Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. STEP’s overall objective is to alleviate...

MORE EUROPEAN CONSUMER GROUPS LAUNCH LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST VOLKSWAGEN

MORE EUROPEAN CONSUMER GROUPS LAUNCH LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST VOLKSWAGEN

Consumer organisations in Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland1 announced today that they will collect claims of car owners affected by the Volkswagen emissions scandal to demand compensation in court. Since the scandal broke, The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and its member organisations, national consumer groups, have been working together to hold VW accountable for its...