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Plugged in at last: Europe pledges to stop wasting energy

Brussels, Belgium – WWF, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Europe hailed the energy efficiency target proposed by the European Commission today to reduce Europe’s total primary energy consumption by at least 20 percent by 2020. The environmental NGOs warned, however, that the Energy Efficiency Action Plan falls short of proposing legislation that would put …

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Shell told to stop “greenwashing”

Brussels/Netherlands, July 5th – The Dutch Advertising Authority has instructed oil giant Shell to stop misleading the public, after Friends of the Earth Netherlands filed a complaint against a “greenwash” advertisement that claimed that Shell uses their waste carbon dioxide to grow flowers.[1] The advertisement, published in a number of newspapers and magazines in April …

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EU Commissioners in bed with business

Brussels, 17th October – Today, Friends of the Earth Europe and the Seattle to Brussels Network demanded that the European Union stops making policy decisions biased towards business interests. Trade and environmental campaigners staged an action outside the annual back-pat of the Confederation of European Business (UNICE) today [1], attended by six European Commissioners and …

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