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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 …
NEW REPORT: More than half land Europe consumes comes from outside the continentRead more
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 …
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 …
Europe’s resource reduction plan doesn’t measure upRead more
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 …
European court protects honey from GM contaminationRead more
Brussels/Luxembourg, September 6, 2011 – The European Court of Justice (ECJ) will later today rule on whether honey contaminated by pollen from genetically modified (GM) crops will need to be labelled or need specific EU food safety approval. The case was forwarded to the ECJ after German beekeepers sued the Bavarian government after their honey …
European court to rule on GM contamination in honeyRead more
Bonn, June 17 – Today members of the youth organisation BUNDJugend (Young Friends of the Earth Germany) organized a spoof street party in front of the Maritim hotel, where UN climate talks have been taking place over the past two weeks. With music, dancing and a “40-percent” cake, 40 young people celebrated the announcement of …
