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Future of Europe debate concludes without action at Sibiu EU summit Europe’s prime ministers met today in Sibiu, Romania, for a largely symbolic summit intended to renew commitment on the ‘issues that really matter to people‘. The summit’s formal declaration, however, does not mention ‘sustainable Europe’, nor biodiversity collapse, and relegates climate change to an afterthought. The …
Leaders fail climate, sustainability, change test at SibiuRead more
As Europe’s prime ministers meet tomorrow in Sibiu, Romania, to shape the future of Europe, the EU’s next five-year priorities and long-term climate goals, Friends of the Earth Europe urges them to grasp the nettle of transformative change. Jagoda Muni?, director of Friends of the Earth Europe said: “With young people on the streets worried …
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European governments and the European Union must take a lead in halting global ecological collapse, warned Friends of the Earth Europe, in reaction to a major global assessment published today. Europe driving nature loss Europe’s inadequate action to save its own nature, its over-consumption, intensive agriculture, exploitation, and pollution, are contributing to the dramatic global …
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EU Member States in the European Council have today agreed to start negotiating a new EU-US trade deal. The talks were de facto approved despite promises by French President Macron and EU Trade Commissioner Malmström that the EU would not negotiate a trade agreement with countries that have not signed the Paris agreement on climate …
EU-US trade negotiations counteract global climate ambitionRead more
Friends of the Earth has today delivered a court summons to Shell at its headquarters in the Hague, to legally compel the company to cease its destruction of the climate, in a historic climate litigation on behalf of more than 30,000 people from 70 countries. The 236-page complaint was delivered to Shell’s international headquarters this …
Hundreds of thousands of youth climate strikers, and adults, today hit the streets of cities in every European country. They demanded urgent, massive and transformational action for a safe fossil-free future. In one of the biggest environmental protests ever seen, 900 grassroots ‘Global Climate Strike For Future’ events took place across 35 European countries. There …
