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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 …
Strasbourg, 13 February – Friends of the Earth Europe and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) have welcomed a vote in the European Parliament today backing waste prevention and recycling as the key elements for dealing with waste in Europe. The environmental groups also congratulated MEPs for rejecting a misguided proposal to ‘re-brand’ incineration, which would …
MEPs vote for European Recycling Society – and to cut our wasteRead more
In the aftermath of the devastating hurricane Katrina Friends of the Earth Europe has called the catastrophe a wake-up call for world leaders to act upon the global threat of climate change by swiftly agreeing new steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions. According to Friends of the Earth Europe, any delay will mean more people …
1st February 2007, Brussels – In light of tomorrow’s release of the latest, starkest findings on climate change, Friends of the Earth Europe has called for the EU to swap grand words with serious action to face up to the crisis. Next month, EU leaders must – at their annual Summit – set ambitious targets …
Brussels, 23 February 2010 – On the day of the release of annual industry-sponsored figures, a new report from Friends of the Earth International reveals that claims made by the biotech industry that genetically modified (GM) crops can combat climate change are both exaggerated and premature. [1] The report, ‘Who Benefits from GM Crops‘, examines …
New report: GM crops failing to tackle climate changeRead more
