07 Dec 2022 --- Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) has written an open letter to the European Commission (EC) following its recent energy manifesto, with a ten-point plan that the organization says would secure economic prosperity, energy sufficiency, and maintain the EU’s dwindling hopes of achieving the Paris Climate Agreement targets. Recently, policymakers have sacrificed environmental measures to protect European industry. This has produced heavy criticism from civil society groups, who accuse governments of abandoning the EU’s Green Deal to secure short-term cash.