🇧🇪Belgium

Eleven citizens turned into a nationwide lawsuit that forced Belgium's courts to order real cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

Instead of going for their usual Friday coffee, a group of Brussels parents closed the road outside their children's school — and then kept doing it.

Continental Europe's first community land trust keeps land permanently out of the speculative market so low-income Brussels families can buy homes at up to half the price of the private market.

Belgium's oldest energy cooperative lets more than 70,000 citizens co-own the wind turbines and solar panels that power their homes.

A European shipowner can sell a worn-out vessel to a cash buyer, watch it be renamed and reflagged mid-voyage, and never legally have sent anything to a beach in South Asia.