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Financial fools day – We won’t pay for their crisis

Brussels, 1 April – Brussels-based environment, development, farming and transparency campaign organisations today denounce the EU’s continuing contribution to the financial crises and the limited solutions it is advocating at the G20 with a theatre spectacle in front of the European Council from 12.30-13.15. Politicians and citizens will battle their way out of the financial …

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Dramatic rise in EU emissions

Brussels, 21 June 2005: Friends of the Earth Europe called on EU governments to drastically increase their efforts to combat global warming by reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions, as shocking new data released today by the European Commission shows a dramatic increase in emissions. In 2003, EU-15 emissions were only 1.7% below 1990 levels, while …

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MEPs call on Commission to strengthen Corporate Social Responsibility policy

Brussels / Strasbourg, 13 March – The European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) [1] has welcomed today’s approval by the European Parliament of a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) resolution urging the European Commission to extend legal obligations to some key aspects of corporate accountability. By voting for the resolution, MEPs have called for directors to …

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Finance ministers dodge responsibility in climate cash decision

Brussels, 10 March – European Finance Ministers failed to lay hard cash on the table today to support decarbonising economies in developing countries and to compensate for coping with the consequences of climate change [1]. Carbon offsetting schemes, such as the Clean Development Mechanism, have been put forward as mechanisms to tackle climate change and …

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Europe misses chance to agree ambitious action agenda for next climate negotiations

LUXEMBOURG/BRUSSELS, 18 OCTOBER 2005 — As EU Environment Ministers agreed the EU’s position towards the next UN climate negotiations taking place next month in Montreal, Canada, Friends of the Earth Europe warns that by yesterday’s agreement the EU is endangering international leadership previously demonstrated by the EU on climate change. Jan Kowalzig, climate campaigner at …

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