Two important climate and energy papers were released today by the European Commission in Brussels amid criticism from Friends of the Earth Europe. The environmental group argues that the proposals for how Europe might tackle climate change over the next 40 years show the EU is effectively abandoning its pledge to limit global warming to …
MEP lobbying scandal exposes urgent need for stricter rules
Brussels, 21 March 2011 – An alliance of transparency campaigners today urged a root and branch overhaul of ethics rules for MEPs, following the revelations published in UK newspaper, the Sunday Times (20 March) exposing how three MEPs were prepared to accept payments in return for tabling amendments in the European Parliament [1]. The Alliance …
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Agriculture ministers urged to wake up, and shake up new farming reforms
Brussels, March 17 – Friends of the Earth Europe is calling on European agriculture ministers to leave their entrenched positions and radically shake-up European agriculture – to make it greener, protect family farming and to reduce its impacts in southern countries. Ministers meet today to agree their first official response to proposals to reform the …
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Pressure mounts for EU clampdown on tar sands
Brussels, March 16, 2011 – The EU will today come under renewed pressure to effectively ban the world’s most climate polluting transport fuel from Europe. A coalition of environmental organisations has been campaigning for the European Union’s Fuel Quality Directive to address the significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) resulting from tar sands oil, which …
Make or break for OECD guidelines
In the first decade of this century, governments of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have been unable to protect workers, communities and the environment from harm caused by multinational corporations, concludes a new report from OECD Watch, released today. [1] The report “10 Years On” assesses the effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines …
EU fuelling hunger by grabbing land for biofuels
Development and environmental groups today warned that EU biofuels targets are leading to uncontrollable land grabbing from poor communities in Africa, pushing more people into hunger [1]. On the day before EU Member States submit their renewable energy plans to the EU, ActionAid and Friends of the Earth Europe called on European leaders to halt …
