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A bright idea: setting a binding EU energy savings target

European Heads of State meeting today in Brussels for a special energy summit must show support for a binding target to drive down energy consumption, according to Friends of the Earth Europe. Without stronger action the environmental group is concerned that energy savings will remain a voluntary policy that European countries have largely ignored. Meeting …

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European business: Stop greenwashing the economy

Brussels, 21 February – At today’s opening of the 6th European Business Summit in Brussels, environment campaigners accused companies involved in the event, titled ‘Greening the economy’, of being anything but green themselves. With an action and exhibition [1], Friends of the Earth Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute exposed the greenwashing practices of …

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European civil society launches ‘European food declaration’

Brussels, March 16 – On the eve of a European Parliament hearing which will debate the future of Europe’s agriculture policy a broad alliance of European, national and local civil society organisations concerned with the future of food and agriculture in Europe, are today launching a ‘European food declaration’ to mobilise European citizens and authorities …

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Leaked Commission draft shows EU’s world leadership on renewable energy at risk

Brussels, 23 April 2004 : Three leading environmental groups are demanding the European Commission put forward a new target for boosting the share of renewable energy used in Europe to 25% by the year 2020. The move follows the leaking of a draft Communication that reviews Europe’s renewables policies, and which indicates that the Directorate …

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