{"id":139340,"date":"2025-04-30T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-governments-discuss-action-on-disinformation-over-climate-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:35:48","slug":"eu-governments-discuss-action-on-disinformation-over-climate-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-governments-discuss-action-on-disinformation-over-climate-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"EU governments discuss action on disinformation over climate policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139340\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">30Environment ministers discussed on Tuesday how to counter disinformation and propaganda targeting the EU&#8217;s climate and environmental policies, less than 24 hours after a catastrophic power cut in Spain and Portugal gave wing to precisely the kind of fake news and spin that are causing concern. Europe is being inundated with fake news about environmental, climate and energy policy, Poland\u2019s environment minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska said on Tuesday as she opened an informal summit of EU climate ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers, who met in Warsaw under the auspices of the Polish presidency of the EU Council, arrived with a fresh example following the catastrophic power failure in Spain and Portugal, which triggered a wave of conspiracy theories and false reports. \u201cIn recent months we\u2019ve have more targeted disinformation used for political purposes, very often by our political adversaries,\u201d Hennig-Kloska told reporters after the discussion, which was held behind closed doors. There was also unintentional misinformation due to a \u201clack of understanding of the complexities of European law\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Hennig-Kloska cited a banal example \u2013 reports last year that Brussels wants to ban bacon-flavoured crisps, when in fact EU governments agreed to phase out eight smoke flavourings over concerns they may increase the risk of cancer \u2013 but said the principle can be applied more broadly. European governments have so far lacked a coordinated approach to tackling disinformation, the minister said, but the debate had \u201copened the topic at the level of the Council\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Cognitive war\u2019<\/em><br \/>\nThe Polish government published in January a report commissioned from its military counterintelligence service that pointed to a \u201ccognitive war\u201d waged by Russia and Belarus at a cost of $2-4bn a year. While much of that has been focusing on the Ukraine war, a significant part was also found to target green policies and climate activism. There is a link, in that the EU is counting on ramping up renewable energy production to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. The Commission is due to present next week a roadmap for a total phase out by 2027.\u00a0 &#8221;Disinformation is an action to the detriment of people,&#8221; Hennig-Kloska said. &#8221;In that way, various forces are trying to delay, for example Europe&#8217;s energy transition, which is clearly beneficial for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Climate campaigners are concerned that disinformation is contributing to a pushback in Brussels against a raft of environmental legislation adopted European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s first term at the helm of the EU executive.\u201cDisinformation is on the rise \u2013 especially around EU climate and environmental policies,\u201d said Chiara Martinelli, director of Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has become a go-to weapon for groups and individuals seeking to polarise European societies and erode trust in democratic institutions like national governments and the European Union,\u201d Martinelli told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>Hennig-Kloska said ministers had agreed there were currently \u201cno effective measures to combat disinformation\u201d and that such measures would need to be put in place. No concrete plans were put on the table at the meeting, however, and the next step would be discussions with the Commission, the minister added. One element would be \u201cpositive communications\u201d from Brussels, including an overhaul of the way the EU institutions communicate with the public \u2013 their language needs to be \u201csimpler and less official\u201d, the Polish minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/04\/29\/eu-governments-discuss-action-on-disinformation-over-climate-policy\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-governments-discuss-action-on-disinformation-over-climate-policy\/\">EU governments discuss action on disinformation over climate policy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1290,555],"class_list":["post-139340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-policy","tag-csr-news-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}