Pact articles

Travelling abroad can leave a significant carbon footprint. We spoke to Climate Pact Ambassadors Anna Staszewska from Poland and Jesus Iglesias  from Spain to discover how we can enjoy our holidays while reducing our impact on the planet.

As climate-related concerns continue to grow,event organisers across Europe are increasingly aware of the carbon impact large gatherings can have. If you’re looking to enjoy a sustainable summer concert or festival this year, here are a few things to look out for to make your experience greener.

We all enjoy taking a well-deserved break, especially during the summer holidays. But travelling to different destinations can come with a considerable environmental footprint.

As Europeans prepare to vote for their representatives in the new European Parliament on 6–9 June 2024, there’s a lot to consider.

Floods, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves: adapting to life in a world impacted by climate change and managing its various risks is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges of our time.

This year’s European Climate Pact event gathered over 200 members of the Climate Pact community from across Europe to work together on new ways to spark climate action in their local communities.

For many of us, small climate actions like taking shorter showers, getting the train to work, and turning the tap off or the heating down have become part of everyday life. But we need to spread the word and scale up our action for greater impact – and the European Climate Pact is here to help.

In the last few years, we’ve seen a series of devastating extreme weather events, along with global temperature records being broken time after time, putting climate change in the headlines and on our minds.

Our towns and cities may be becoming friendlier to cyclists and pedestrians, but many of us still choose to take the car over the bus, the bicycle or our own two feet. Why?