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. …
Meandering UN climate talks lack urgency
Nairobi/Brussels, 15 November 2006 – Friends of the Earth Europe today urged the European Union to inject urgency into negotiations on future action to fight climate change, as ministers from 165 countries arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi for the last days of the UN climate talks. Governments are discussing new action after 2012, when …
Dinosaur and nuclear plant in front of the EU Energy Council
Brussels, 14 March 2006 – Friends of the Earth Europe activists today protested in front of the EU Council building, against the energy policy of the European Union by setting up a 10m high inflatable dinosaur depicting dirty energy technologies as well as an inflatable nuclear power station. A banner read: “Dirty Fossil, Dangerous Nukes? …
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