Mobilize Resist Transform
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 …
World faces ecological collapse unless urgent action takenRead more
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 …
21 civil society organisations and unions today launched #ElectNoHate, a joint call for EU elections campaigning free from hate speech and divisive rhetoric, which legitimise hateful actions and pose a threat to human rights. MEP candidates, politicians, the media and those in the public eye are asked not only to avoid engaging in, or amplifying, …
In the wake of shocking reports of insect and wildlife decline, attention is turning on intensive farming in Europe. Major reports have warned of “insectageddon” “Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature‘” “Global wildlife populations have fallen by 60% since 1970” Intensive agriculture has major negative impacts on Europe’s biodiversity – whether due to pollution, …
Farming should work in harmony with nature, not kill itRead more
