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 …
World leaders must agree future climate roadmap
Brussels, 3 November 2006 – Friends of the Earth Europe today demanded strong leadership by European governments at next week’s United Nations climate conference in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, as tens of thousands of people prepare for worldwide demonstrations tomorrow to demand urgent action to save our climate [1]. Friends of the Earth Europe called …
Environment ministers must reject EU plan to promote incineration
Brussels, 26th June 2007 – Environmental NGOs today called on EU Environment Ministers to reject a plan to redefine waste incineration from ‘disposal’ to ‘recovery’, arguing that the redefinition would promote environmentally-damaging incineration and is, in any case, unnecessary. Under current EU law, most incinerators are defined as disposal installations, and installations can only be …
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