Dear Green volunteer,

Did you know that EU governments spend 1,000,000,000 € (1 billion!) a day on fossil fuel subsidies? Sounds scandalous? Well, it is!

Tomorrow is our next Digital Action Day: Earth Day.

To raise our voices against dirty fossil fuels, we prepared a video to be shared. Let’s #StopFossilSubsidies together!

Post our common campaign video in the language close to your heart tomorrow!

Download the video with the subtitles in your language and post it on all your channels.

Please make sure to add the hashtag #StopFossilSubsidies to your post copy, and to tag @europeangreens!

We prepared a square version for Twitter / X and Facebook, and a vertical version for Instagram reels and stories and TikTok.

Here is why your support is so important

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) looked into fossil fuel subsidies and found that, in 2022, EU governments spent over 400,000,000,000 € (400 billion) on fossil fuel subsidies – including tax breaks for jet fuel and corporate perks.

All this, while the effects of climate crisis and environmental destruction have become tangible, with extreme weather events threatening our lives and livelihoods. In 2023, our Earth was already on average 1.47 °C warmer than pre-industrial levels.

So why do we keep subsidising this destruction? This Earth Day, 22 April, we want to raise our voices together, across Europe, to demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies within a year. Government subsidies should be used to fuel our future, not for setting our planet on fire.

Play your part by posting the video on your channels with the hashtag #StopFossilSubsidies. Because when it comes to protecting our Earth - there is no time to wait.

Thanks for participating!

Green regards,

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