The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), said to be Europe’s largest network of environmental non-government organizations (NGOs), has portrayed the new trade deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) in a different light from the one presented by the European Commission, which hailed its EU–U.S. trade deal as a win for transatlantic ties and economic stability.

While some see the new EU-U.S. trade deal as a step that will pave the way for strengthened energy security across Europe, green groups, which disagree with this assessment, have sounded the alarm, as they believe that the deal risks derailing Europe’s decarbonization efforts.