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2019

Act like it is an emergency!

In 2019, the “Act like it’s an emergency!” campaign was launched by WeMove Europe gGmbH’s partners in order to push for more drastic climate action by reducing the emissions goal that the EU aims…

2020

Act now: single-use plastics ban under threat

Plastic is everywhere: in our food, in plants and even in the placentas of unborn babies. We moved the EU to ban single use plastics in 2019. In 2020, we campaigned to stop companies from undoing…

2019

Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary

In collaboration with our partners, the campaign “Save baby Antarctic penguins from starvation!” was launched, with the aim of providing information to help our partners push the European…

2021

Protect our health. Clean air now!

Launched in March 2021 with the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), this campaign took place in German and eight other European languages. All signees decided to use our platform as a tool to…

2020

Europe, Support a Free Belarus

In response to the election fraud in Belarus, our community called for Alexander Lukashenko not to be recognized as President of Belarus and for the opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, to…

2019

Fashion victims campaign

Viscose, a common textile in the clothes we wear, is often produced using dangerous chemicals that are being dumped in lakes and rivers, and pose a health risk to textile workers and locals in…

2018

Eurozone video

In Winter 2017 and early 2018 the European Union has sought to strengthen the Eurozone (the monetary union of the EU) through reform. This is a topic which is not easily accessible to many EU…

2020

Moratorium on Gene Drive Organisms

Gene drive is a new technology that develops genetically engineered mosquitoes, flies and rats raised in laboratories. This is still in the experimentation process, but if released into nature…

2019

No to hate, yes to change. One Europe for all

On the initiative by a broad-based coalition of concerned NGOs, coordinated by WeMove Europe gGmbH and the Open Network, over 200,000 people rallied across Europe on the 19th of May 2019, as part…

2020

Global Solidarity with BlackLivesMatter

Our digital campaigning partners at MoveOn in the US organised a call-out for solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and invited us to join. We responded to the call and WeMove Europe’s…

2020

Romania – save Europe’s last large virgin forests!

We supported a petition started by EuroNatur Foundation (Germany) and Agent Green (Romania) on our YouMove platform, asking the Romanian government to consider the will of all the people who…

2021

Rethink packaging

Together with expert partners on plastics, WeMove Europe gGmbH is promoting the most environmentally friendly way we can deal with waste. “Choose reuse”, motto of this campaign, consists in…

2019

Save Kresna Gorge

In 2019, we created an evidence-based video on the effects that roadbuilding is having on the habitats of bears, eagles and tortoises in the Kresna Gorge in Bulgaria. WeMove Europe gGmbH’s role…

2019

Stop Nenskra

WeMove Europe gGmbH worked in collaboration with CEE Bankwatch in July 2019, calling on Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President of the…

2019

Save our seas

“Save our Seas” is a campaign that we have been a part of from 2017 to 2020. In alliance with our partners we have continuously called to end overfishing, and to declare that fish are not waste…

2021

October March Back To The Climate

Together with a coalition of Belgian environmental NGOs, WeMove Europe gGmbH took part in the Brussels massive climate march of October 10, before the COP26 summit. Demonstrations being an…

2017

Study on the agricultural consequences of the Bayer-Monsanto Merger

When Bayer and Monsanto made it public that their firms would merge, European citizens got in touch with WeMove Europe gGmbH expressing their concerns, requesting further information as to what…

2019

We need an EU climate leader

We launched a major campaign calling on the new European leaders - MEPs and the new European Commission, including President Ursula von der Leyen and Franz Timmermans responsible for the European…

2021

Webinars “Saving the climate with agriculture”

In September 2021, WeMove Europe gGmbH organised two public webinars to connect with its community from across Europe and, together, learn about the power and potential of regenerative…