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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 …
NEW REPORT: Biofuel ‘wonder-crop’ jatropha fails to deliverRead more
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 …
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 …
BRUSSELS (Belgium), 14 January 2008 – Friends of the Earth Europe has today welcomed an official ban on Monsanto’s controversial genetically modified maize, MON810, in France. The French government announced the ban on Friday evening using a clause in European law that allows countries to ban individual GMOs on health or environmental grounds to outlaw …
Friends of the Earth Europe welcomes French ban on genetically modified maizeRead more
16 February 2009, Brussels – Tomorrow, members of the European Parliament’s environment committee will vote on crucial amendments to the Commission’s timber law proposal. The legislation aims to regulate the EU timber market and to tackle the problem of illegal logging, but Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF strongly criticise the Commission’s original draft …
Environment groups: MEPs must improve EU timber lawRead more
Brussels (Belgium) January 10, 2006 – US-based biotech giant, Monsanto, is aiming to genetically modify all of Europe’s maize over the next 4 years, reveals a new Friends of the Earth report released today. The report also concludes that in the ten years since the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods in Europe, the biotech …
