Buenos Aires (Argentina) / Brussels (Belgium), April 22, 2008 – Attempts to use certification schemes to reduce the widespread environmental and social problems caused by growing crops for fuels and animal feeds are bound to fail, states a new report released today by Friends of the Earth groups. [1] The report is released on the …
MEPs vote again for recycling and waste prevention – now EU Governments must follow Parliament’s example
Brussels, April 9 – The European Environmental Bureau and Friends of the Earth Europe have strongly welcomed yesterday’s vote in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee reasserting the need for EU-level targets on waste prevention and recycling. Voting on the Waste Framework Directive, an overwhelming majority favoured targets for Member States to stabilise waste generation by …
Environmental groups call for credible biofuel safeguards
Brussels, 4 April 2008 – Leaked EU documents reveal that preliminary negotiations to establish sustainability criteria for biofuels could fail to prevent an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and fail to stop negative impacts on wildlife and people, international environment groups warned today. The documents reveal that EU Member States are currently planning to apply …
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WTO ruling force-feeds hormones to Europe
Brussels, 31 March 2008 – Environment and animal rights groups are calling on the European Union to appeal a ruling made by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which they say allows the US and Canada to force hormone-fed beef on Europe. A WTO internal tribunal ruled today that the European import ban on US and …
Commission Expert Groups dominated by industry
Brussels, 25 March 2008 – Industry lobbyists are dominating parts of the European law-making process, campaigners warned today on the back of a new report analysing the membership of a number of Commission Expert Groups. Researchers also warn that the European Commission is impeding public accountability, by failing to reveal details of who sits on …
Suspect timber in EU building projects
Amsterdam/Brussels, 19 March 2008 – Friends of the Earth is calling on the European Commission to adopt environmental legislation to prevent illegal timber from being sold on the European market, following an investigation which discovered illegal or destructively logged timber in four EU construction projects. The timber originated from the Amazon, Central Africa, Russia and …
