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Brussels, 17 September 2006 – Illegal US genetically modified (GM) rice has been found on the shelves of a big UK supermarket, Friends of the Earth Europe revealed today. The environmental campaign group is calling for a full product recall and is mounting a legal challenge over the UK Food Standards Agency’s woeful response to …
Friends of the Earth finds illegal US GM rice in UK supermarketRead more
Brussels, November 17 – A new report out today has dispelled the biotech industry’s claim that genetically modified (GM) crops need fewer pesticides. The seminal report by Dr. Charles Benbrook [1], presents hard data proving once and for all that chemical use has increased dramatically since the introduction of genetic engineering, raising concern over any …
Report reveals dramatic rise in pesticide use on genetically modified cropsRead more
Brussels – One week ahead of crucial climate change talks in Copenhagen, a new study released today by Stockholm Environment Institute in partnership with Friends of the Earth Europe proves for the first time that Europe could double its greenhouse gas emission reduction target for 2020. The research, ‘Europe’s Share of the Climate Challenge: Domestic …
New study shows 40% emissions cuts possible in EuropeRead more
Strasbourg, 17 November 2005 – Environmental, women’s, health and consumer organisations recognised the important step taken by Parliament today towards replacing hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives but regretted that MEPs exempted thousands of chemicals from the need to provide any health and safety information.The European Parliament supported the obligation to replace hazardous chemicals with safer …
Parliament votes to phase out hazardous chemicals but allows huge knowledge gaps on safetyRead more
Copenhagen/Brussels – The European Union must make stronger commitments to fighting climate change to increase the chance of achieving a just and effective global climate agreement, Friends of the Earth Europe said today as vital United Nations climate talks opened in Copenhagen. Pledges made so far by developed countries fall far short of what science …
No more excuses – Europe must make climate justice possible in CopenhagenRead more
Brussels, February 16 – Eight Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written to European Heads of State and Ministers of the Environment urging them to tackle the most climate polluting sources of transport fuel, notably tar sands. Oil produced from highly polluting sources, such as tar sands and coal-to-liquids, causes far more climate damaging emissions than …
Eight Nobel laureates join forces in EU climate pushRead more
