February 20th, Brussels – The EU is heading for a double standard on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, warned Friends of the Earth Europe today after a meeting of Environment Ministers. Ministers reaffirmed the EU’s commitment to build and expand on Kyoto to achieve absolute emission reductions by developed countries, going so far as to acknowledge …
Taxpayers’ money involved in financing controversial tar sands companies
London, Brussels, March 1 – A new report launched today reveals that UK bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, has been involved in providing loans worth $7.5 billion in the last three years to companies carrying out highly controversial ‘tar sands’ mining [1] in Canada. A coalition of non-government organisations including PLATFORM and Friends of the …
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Growth in flights will wreck Climate change targets, new research shows
New research published today (Wednesday 1 June 2005) by Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and carried out by the UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, shows that unless the EU and the UK Government takes action to reduce the growth in aviation emissions the industry’s emissions will wipe out all …
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NEW REPORT: Biofuel ‘wonder-crop’ jatropha fails to deliver
Brussels/Abuja, January 21, 2011 – The much-touted biofuel crop jatropha isneither a profitable nor a sustainable investment, according to a new report released by Friends of the Earth Europe today. ‘Jatropha: money doesn’t grow on trees’ warns investors away from jatropha – a shrub being increasingly planted for its oil-producing fruits and ability to survive …
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Europe set to linger in dirty energy trap
Brussels, 15 February – EU Energy Ministers have missed a chance to guide Europe out of its dirty energy trap, Friends of the Earth Europe warned today. In their contribution to the proposed EU energy “Action Plan”, Ministers agreed to only weakly promote renewable energy and shied away from any concrete commitment to cut energy …
RegioScars 2009: EU billions earmarked for environmental devastation in central and eastern Europe
Brussels, Belgium, 16 February – ‘RegioScars’ awards for the most unsustainable spending of EU funds in Central and Eastern Europe were awarded today by CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth Europe. The prizes went to two projects in the Czech Republic and Poland currently in line for support from EU regional aid, and …
