Thousands of protesters are expected tonight on the streets of central Sofia and 15 other Bulgarian cities, objecting to corruption and the illegal decision to permit a ski resort and commercial logging in Pirin National Park. It coincides with a visit of all EU Commissioners and the opening ceremony of the Bulgarian Presidency of the …
COP23: EU acts as if climate change a distant prospect
As two weeks of UN climate talks draw to a close in Bonn, Germany, Friends of the Earth Europe pointed to actions by civil society and developing countries which helped push through progress on short-term emissions reduction commitments. But it said that, on the whole, rich countries including the European Union had once again shown …
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No room for gas in clean energy financing
At a high level conference today on financing Europe’s shift to clean energy, EU energy chiefs once again showed blindness to the danger to the climate of Europe’s gas addiction. The high level conference featuring several European Commissioners, the President of the European Parliament, and renewable industry bosses, came on the same day as a …
New study reveals incompatibility of climate safety and gas
Europe needs to urgently quit gas if it is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to internationally agreed levels, new science shows. A new study, commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Teesside University, shows that EU countries can afford just nine more years of burning …
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Europe urged to get free from fossil fuels ahead of UN climate talks
Friends of the Earth Europe will join thousands of demonstrators in Bonn, Germany on Saturday to send a message of climate justice ahead of the UN climate talks. The two weeks of negotiations – known as COP23 – open on Monday and will see several mobilisation moments. As negotiators discuss the ‘rule book’ for implementation …
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State of the European Union – reaction
Commenting on today’s State of the European Union speech by European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, Leida Rijnhout from Friends of the Earth Europe said: “We need a fundamental rethink of the kind of Europe we want – in some areas President Juncker seems to recognise this, but in others it is very much business …
