Copenhagen, Denmark, December 15 – The winner of the Angry Mermaid Award 2009, announced by award-winning writer and journalist Naomi Klein at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen today is the biotech giant Monsanto with 37% of the total vote [1]. Oil giant Shell took second place (18%) in the Award for lobbying to sabotage …
Danish PM tries to derail UN climate talks
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, December 16, 2009 – Friends of the Earth International denounced today an attempt by the Danish Prime Minister to derail the UN negotiations in favour of rich countries and condemned the exclusion of critical civil society voices – including Friends of the Earth – from the UN climate conference. “The Danish Prime Minister …
Friends of the Earth suspended from UN climate talks
Copenhagen, Brussels, December 16 – Friends of the Earth representatives have been barred from the United Nations climate talks in the Bella Centre in Copenhagen today. Every delegate from the international environmental campaign group arrived at the centre this morning to find their badges were no longer valid. Friends of the Earth representatives from countries …
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Climate hopes dashed in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, December 18, 2009 – Commenting on the failure of rich country governments to secure a strong and fair UN agreement to tackle climate change in Copenhagen, Magda Stoczkiewicz, director of Friends of the Earth Europe said: “Politicians cannot call this ‘outcome’ a success when in fact nothing meaningful has been agreed. Negotiations must …
Stalemate on tar sands
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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