Brussels, 29 May – Today global warming campaigners protested outside the Berlaymont, bashing European Commission President Barroso for his hypocrisy on the issue of climate change. They offered Mr Barroso a shame award for driving a gas guzzling car and for disregarding the need to set binding fuel efficiency standards for cars sold in Europe. [1] …
EU owes developing countries climate compensation
Brussels 29 August 2006 – Friends of the Earth Europe today called on European Union leaders to step up efforts to limit climate change and insisted that the EU must finance adaptation measures and disaster relief in developing countries. The call came as a new report [1], launched in London today by a coalition of …
“New” Europe clings to “old” energy
Brussels, 24 March 2006 – The EU summit has adopted an energy strategy that will undermine global efforts to drastically cut down greenhouse gas pollution in order to limit dangerous climate change, Friends of the Earth charged today. The “Energy Policy for Europe”, agreed last night, aims at securing yet more oil and more gas …
EU ministers dodge commitment to cut energy waste
Brussels, 23 November 2006 – Friends of the Earth Europe castigated EU Industry and Economy Ministers today for ducking out of concrete commitments to cut energy waste at the EU Energy Council meeting. The Energy Council discussed the proposed target to reduce EU energy waste by 20 percent by 2020 but did not commit to …
New data: EU emissions rise again
Brussels, 22 June 2006 – Friends of the Earth Europe have demanded urgent climate action from European governments, after new data reveals that overall EU emissions continue to rise. The latest figures, released by the European Commission today, show that EU emissions actually rose by 0.4% in 2004 relative to the previous year[1]. In 2004, …
Climate treaty inching forward
Nairobi/Brussels, 17 November 2006 – Friends of the Earth Europe today called on the European Union to urgently push the issue of climate change to the highest political level, as UN negotiations on climate change in the Kenyan capital Nairobi ended today with mixed results and only modest progress on the international climate treaty, Kyoto. …
