Brussels/Paris/Amsterdam, February 23, 2012 – Representatives from European governments met today to vote on plans to keep tar sands out of Europe, but intense lobby pressure from Canada and the oil industry has brought about a stalemate, according to Friends of the Earth Europe. [1] Abstentions and rejections from a number of European governments means …
Hopes fading for greener and fairer farming proposals
Brussels, October 11, 2011 – Proposed reforms to the future of farming in Europe are unlikely to be sufficient to protect the environment and the majority of farmers, or curtail corporate control of the food chain, Friends of the Earth Europe says today on the eve of the publication of a new draft Common Agricultural …
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NEW REPORT: More than half land Europe consumes comes from outside the continent
Brussels, October 10, 2011 – Europe’s ‘land footprint’ is one of the largest in the world, and the continent is more dependent on land from outside its borders than any other, new research published today reveals. [1] Friends of the Earth Europe and the Sustainable Europe Research Institute have measured flows of ‘virtual land’ around …
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Europe defies Canadian pressure on tar sands
Brussels, Tuesday October 4 – Friends of the Earth Europe has welcomed a decision by the European Commission to take steps to prevent oil from tar sands entering the European market. The European Commission has announced it will assign higher carbon emission values to oil from tar sands than to other sources of fossil fuels …
Europe’s resource reduction plan doesn’t measure up
Brussels, September 20, 2011 – A plan unveiled today to tackle Europe’s dependency on imported resources does not go far enough to end the region’s over-consumption of the world’s water, land and other materials. The Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe [1] acknowledges that major increases in Europe’s resource efficiency are needed to compensate for …
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European court protects honey from GM contamination
Brussels/Luxembourg, September 6, 2011 – The European Court of Justice today upheld the rights of beekeepers and consumers to keep honey free from GM contamination. Europe’s highest court ruled that honey contaminated with genetically modified (GM) crops would need full safety approval and would have to be labelled as GM. The ruling opens the way …
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