Presentations: 8th November 9:40 – 10:30 Opening – How responsible is Europe’s resource consumption? Jacqueline McGlade – Executive Director, European Environment Agency 11:00 – 12:30 Can decoupling result in responsible resource use? Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel – Member of the UNEP International Resources Panel Ton Manders – Deputy Head, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Keith …
Conference: Responsible or irresponsible: Europe’s resource use and its impacts
Europe imports huge amounts of resources; but exactly how much, and at what cost? Is Europe consuming natural resources responsibly; or irresponsibly over-consuming, without consideration of the impacts? Europe is recognising the urgent need to tackle its resource dependency: the European Commission has published its Flagship Initiative on resource efficiency, and the Roadmap to a …
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NEW REPORT: More than half land Europe consumes comes from outside the continent
Brussels, October 10, 2011 – Europe’s ‘land footprint’ is one of the largest in the world, and the continent is more dependent on land from outside its borders than any other, new research published today reveals. [1] Friends of the Earth Europe and the Sustainable Europe Research Institute have measured flows of ‘virtual land’ around …
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Europe’s resource reduction plan doesn’t measure up
Brussels, September 20, 2011 – A plan unveiled today to tackle Europe’s dependency on imported resources does not go far enough to end the region’s over-consumption of the world’s water, land and other materials. The Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe [1] acknowledges that major increases in Europe’s resource efficiency are needed to compensate for …
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Lufthansa’s green claims don’t fly
Brussels/Berlin/Hamburg, July 15, 2011 – Lufthansa launches its first controversial bio-fuelled flight today, amidst outcry from green groups [1]. Fuelling aeroplanes with biofuels presents Lufthansa and the aviation industry with a convenient smokescreen, greenwashing their image, facilitating the airline industry’s expansion plans and diverting political attention from the real need to cut air travel in …
NEW REPORT: Half a million new jobs could be created in Europe by recycling more
Brussels, September 14 – At least 500,000 new jobs would be created in Europe if countries recycled 70% of their waste finds a new study, ‘More Jobs, Less Waste’, launched by Friends of the Earth today. [1] This is the recycling rate already achieved by Flanders in Belgium. President of the European Commission José Manuel …
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