Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland welcomed a packed room today at their conference exploring how the four resource footprints – carbon, water, land and material – are already being used in policy and in practice. The one day event brought together policy-makers, academics, campaigners and experts from business who are already …
Conference: The four footprints in policy & practice
How land, water, carbon and material footprints can help create a more resource efficient Europe 11th February 2014, 9.15am – 6.30pm Press Club Brussels, 95 Rue Froissart – 1040 Bruxelles Friends of the Earth invites you to a conference exploring how the four footprints – Carbon, Water, Land and Material footprint – are already being …
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Europe must reduce its use of world’s land
A report published today by the United Nations International Resource Panel highlights how global land consumption is unsustainable in a world of finite resources. [1] The findings echo research by Friends of the Earth Europe on Europe’s global land footprint. [2] Increasing demand for limited land – to grow food, to produce energy and wood, …
Targeting a more resource efficient Europe
On 5th November, Friends of the Earth Europe organised a conference in Brussels to look at the role of targets in bringing about a reduction in the resources we use in Europe. “We are certainly not heading to a future we can afford” opened European Environment Commissioner Janez Poto?nik as he reiterated his desire for …
Land footprint scenarios
This study by the Sustainable Europe Research Institute for Friends of the Earth Europe looks at the impacts of Europe’s ‘land ‘footprint’. Land is a limited global resource and changes in Europe’s consumption of land are felt around the globe.
Europe’s land demand creating inequalities
Europe’s appetite for an ever-increasing amount of land is putting huge pressure on this finite resource as well as putting other nations’ development at stake, concludes a study published today. The new discussion paper by the Sustainable Europe Research Institute for Friends of the Earth Europe shows that a small minority of the global population, …