Europe’s land footprint is 640 million hectares a year – an area equivalent to 1.5 times the size of Europe itself. This is the land required to make everything that we consume, from food to material products to fuel. Friends of the Earth Europe’s conference addressed Europe’s land footprint, its causes, and solutions to the …
Conference: Reducing Europe’s land dependency and its impacts
On the 3rd December, Friends of the Earth Europe will be holding a conference discussing the causes of, and solutions too, Europe’s excessive land footprint. The half-day conference, ‘Resource Efficiency in Europe: reducing Europe’s land dependency and its impacts’, taking place in the conference hall of The Press Club, Rue Froissart 95, Brussels, will discuss the …
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Over 4000 demand reduction in Europe’s land use
In Europe, we are currently consuming an area of land one and a half times the size of our continent. This amount is increasing and as a continent Europe is putting more and more pressure on the limited land the planet has left. This is pushing up food prices, driving land-grabs, contributing to climate change …
Lost in Transposition? : A study of the implementation of individual producer reponsibility in the WEEE Directive
A report by LUND University, commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and the EEB.
Extended Producer Responsibility – An examination of its impact on innovation and greening products
A report by LUND University, commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and the EEB
Will Europe face up to the resource crunch?
By Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy and Magda Stoczkiewicz Europe is on the verge of a global resource crunch, and it is far from ready to tackle it. Over the next two days the European Parliament will vote upon recommendations to improve Europe’s resource efficiency levels.The objective is to ensure that Europe maintains its prosperity in a resource-scarce …
