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New research reveals that Shell is world’s most carbon intensive oil company

London, May 19 – Research by four leading environmental organisations released today to coincide with Royal Dutch Shell’s Annual General Meeting, reveals the carbon intensity of the top international oil companies. Shell is now the most carbon intensive oil company in the world based on its total resources. The research examined the leading international oil …

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EU Environment Ministers missing long term climate perspective

Luxembourg/Brussels, 23 October – Friends of the Earth Europe pushed European citizens’ concerns about climate change directly under the noses of EU Environment Ministers today, just before their Council meeting in Luxembourg. Today the Ministers will agree on the EU’s position for the upcoming United Nations climate conference in Kenya next month. However, leaked documents …

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Environmental groups welcome UK government concern over biofuels

Brussels, 21 February – Environmental groups BirdLife International, EEB, Friends of the Earth and Transport and Environment, welcome UK transport secretary Ruth Kelly’s announcement that the UK will initiate a wide ranging review of biofuel production. The green groups expressed their hope that other member states will engage in this review and that it will …

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ArcelorMittal continues to pollute and uproot people’s lives

Luxembourg, May 12 – ArcelorMittal needs to move beyond good intentions on environmental and social improvements and turn words into deeds. Despite its rhetoric on social responsibility, the company continues to destroy the environment, risk people’s lives and displace local communities, according to a new report launched today by the Global Action on ArcelorMittal coalition …

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How eco-friendly is your MEP?

Two months before elections for the European Parliament, a new website has been launched to allow voters to find out how MEPs and political parties voted on environmental issues over the last five years. Friends of the Earth Europe, in collaboration with Greenpeace, the European Environmental Bureau, the European Federation for Transport and Environment, and …

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Europe faces up to the resource challenge

Brussels, January 26 – The scale of the challenge posed by Europe’s unsustainable use of the world’s natural resources has been acknowledged today by the European Commission. Lawmakers in Brussels published an initiative outlining how Europe plans to tackle its resource use which affects global resource prices, natural ecosystems and people – particularly the poor …

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