Overview
Lobbying Costs
136,314€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
7 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
ZERO - ASSOCIAÇÃO SISTEMA TERRESTRE SUSTENTÁVEL (ZERO)
EU Transparency Register
150692021687-73 First registered on 06 May 2016
Goals / Remit
At the end of 2015, ZERO was founded based in the common interest of about one hundred people working to achieve sustainable development in Portugal. Our DNA demonstrates the ambition to intervene in Portuguese society through a proactive participation in the defence of sustainability values, because we understand that only through the balance between environment, society and economy will it be possible to build a more cohesive, social and economic world, in full respect for the natural limits of the planet. ZERO's intervention is based on solid ideas and a permanent dialogue with the different key players to achieve goals such as:
ZERO fossil fuels
ZERO pollution
ZERO waste of resources
ZERO destruction of ecosystems and biodiversity
ZERO social and economic inequalityMain EU files targeted
ZERO follows the policies, initiatives and legislative files in several areas, highlighting energy (Clean Energy Package), climate change (2030 and 2050 targets, ETS, ESR), noise/air quality, circular economy, chemicals, waste and transport (CO2 emissions, taxation, e-mobility, fossil vs. clean fuels).
Address
Head Office
Rua Alexandre Herculano, 371, 4º Dto
Porto 4000-055
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 7 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
7
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Francisco Ferreira (Presidente da Direção)
Person with legal responsibility
Francisco Ferreira (Presidente da Direção)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
CAN-Europe: http://www.caneurope.org/
EEB: https://eeb.org/
T&E: https://www.transportenvironment.org/
ZERO WASTE EUROPE: https://zerowasteeurope.eu/
ECOS: http://ecostandard.org/
RGI: https://renewables-grid.eu/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
136,314€
EU grant income for closed financial year
72,248 € (Source: European Climate Foundation, European Environmental Citizens Organization for Standardization, Environmental Investigation Agency, Stichting Birdlife Europe, German Federal Environment Agency)
Other financial info
EU funded projects:
- Clean Energy for All proposals in Portugal - European Climate Foundation (ECF)
- AccESS Pan-European project - European Environmental Citizens Organization for Standardization (ECOS)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
- Inform and raise awareness of policy and decision makers, civil society and media about the need to reshape bioenergy policies to ensure sustainability - Stichting Birdlife Europe
- Life Ask Reach - German Federal Environment Agency
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
ZERO develops in a regular base activities aimed to the citizens related to different subjects, in partnership with several organizations. In 2018-2019, ZERO engaged to organize:
- in co-partnership with ENVI committee of the Portuguese Parliament an international conference on the opportunities for a climate law in Portugal;
- climate marches within a coalition of more than 30 NGOs in Portugal;
- debates about palm oil and bioenergy use;
- visualization of videos and debate with the Portuguese families involved in the People's Climate Case;
- marches against dredging of sands in the Setúbal port;
- debates regarding new plans for the Lisbon airport expansion;
- European Fossil Fuel Subsidies Awards 2018 - Portuguese nomination, petition and award
- Palm oil public action in the Commission Representation building in Lisbon.
ZERO has been also developing projects in some of these areas, naming, for example:
• F-Gases - Championing a rapid and ambitious global phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
• AccESS - Pan-European pilot project to enhance the added value of environmental NGO participation in European standardization
• EcoComunities
• Strategy ZERO Waste
• Power Quiz (Energy Efficiency game for students)
• Famílias Oeiras Ecológica (Oeiras Ecological Families)
• Bioenergy - Inform and raise awareness (policy-makers, civil society and the media) on the need to reform bioenergy policies to ensure sustainability
• Clean Energy Package and NECPs/Climate Law in Portugal - raise awareness, lobby and communication
• EU diesel campaign - raise awareness, lobby and communication on diesel pollution and diesel bans in Portugal
ZERO is also involved in several platforms and movements, related to EU, national and regional issues.Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 15 Nov 2022 Location Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Subject Progress of COP27 negotiations Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists - Ecologistas en Accion
- Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd
- Women Engage for a Common Future
- Klimadelegation e.V.
- Greenpeace European Unit
- CARE France
- Bischöfliches Hilfswerk MISEREOR e.V.
- Carbon Market Watch
- Danish 92 Group - Forum for Sustainable Development
- ActionAid
- Climate Action Network Europe
- Germanwatch
- REScoop.eu asbl
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Date 31 Mar 2021 Location video phone call Subject Biomass in Portugal. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
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