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Friends of the Earth France are celebrating a major campaign victory today for their anti-fracking campaign. Multinational French energy utility Engie has reportedly dropped a massive deal to import fracked gas from the U.S.A., citing environmental concerns over U.S. fracked gas. French government and NGOs raised fracking pollution concerns The negotiations were over a contract …
Victory as energy utility Engie drops U.S. fracked gas import dealRead more
Friends of the Earth Austria/GLOBAL 2000 have filed an EU complaint against their government today for an inadequate and illegal plan on building renovations and energy efficiency. Austria’s long-term renovation strategy is inadequate, harms energy poverty and carbon reduction efforts, says the group. EU minimum standards for buildings must also apply in Austria so that …
Austria faces EU complaint for inadequate building renovation planRead more
Today the environment ministers of EU governments have backed the Biodiversity Strategy 2030, which lays out the EU’s new 10-year-plan to tackle nature loss. The meeting comes days after a report on the State of Nature in the EU revealed that, despite the EU’s Nature directives, 81% of habitats and 63% of the species that the directives were …
EU member states endorse new plan to address biodiversity crisisRead more
Factory-farmed meat production in the EU is on the rise, and is putting the climate and human health at risk according to a new report released today from Food & Water Action Europe and Friends of the Earth Europe. A rise in industrial meat production in the European Union has been accompanied by a rapid …
Under the guise of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen fossil fuel interests capture tens of billions of public recovery money, new research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a massive lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry to win concessions for climate-damaging energy schemes across Europe, and weaken environmental standards and the European …
Revealed: How the fossil fuel industry used Covid-19 to derail the EU green dealRead more
A leaked European Commission proposal reveals that the EU is not serious about ending the protection of fossil fuels under the controversial Energy Charter Treaty. European Commissioners are expected today to sign off proposals to reform the investment agreement, which is currently being renegotiated to ‘modernise’ it, due to climate concerns. Controversial treaty The European …
Commission plan fails to bring Energy Charter Treaty in line with climate goalsRead more
