Heiligendamm, Germany, June 7, 2007 – Campaigners warned that today’s statement on climate change by leaders of the eight most industrialised nations (or G8) meeting is weak and lacks substance, but reveals the urgent need to tackle climate change. G8 leaders meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany made some progress under the leadership of German Chancellor Angela …
EU fails to develop credible transparency rules
BRUSSELS, 3 May 2006 – The Commission’s proposals for the new European Transparency Initiative (ETI) fail to deliver transparency around the role of lobbying in EU decision-making and will not improve public trust in the EU institutions, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) charged today. ALTER-EU will continue to push for a …
BNP-Paribas, Stop funding nuclear power!
Brussels 5th June – In Brussels today and in over 20 cities across Europe, protests by environmental groups intensified pressure on BNP Paribas to withdraw its funding of the controversial Belene Buglarian nuclear power plant. In Brussels, activists from Friends of the Earth Europe, Netwerk Vlaanderen, Reseau financement alternatif and Friends of the Earth Flanders …
Europe clinging to dinosaur energy policy
Brussels, 8 March 2006 – Old fashioned and backward looking – a so-called new EU energy policy grounded in the days of the dinosaurs. This is the verdict of Friends of the Earth Europe on the EU’s Energy Plan to be published later today. Jan Kowalzig, energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe in …
G8: European countries must stand up to Bush on climate
June 4th 2007, Brussels – Friends of the Earth Europe warned today that unless European leaders take the lead and stand up to US President George Bush on climate change at the G8 talks in Heiligendamm, Germany this week, the eight most industrialised nations will let down the world’s poorest nations. The summit is in …
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Environment Ministers water down EU waste policy
Brussels, 29th June 2007 – Environmental NGOs today condemned the results of yesterday’s Environment Council vote as a serious climb-down on more than 30 years of European waste policy. Ministers promoted incineration and missed the opportunity to modernise waste policy so that it increases Europe’s resource efficiency and reduces its climate impacts. The Ministers voted …
