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EU banks on insiders to fix the financial crisis, says new report

Brussels, 25 February – European leaders handling the economic downturn are relying on the advice of a committee dominated by financial industry insiders implicated in the current crisis, says a new report. ‘Would You Bank on Them?’ examines the track records of members of the EU’s High Level Group of financial “wise men”, who are …

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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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