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 …
G20 Summit: Leaders should aim for ‘Robin Hood tax’
If G20 leaders would agree on a ‘Robin Hood Tax’ at their gathering next weekend in Toronto, this Summit could help avoid the worsening of the global economic crisis and its social and environmental consequences, according to Friends of the Earth International. G20 ministers failed so far to agree on a general global bank levy …
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Transparency still out of sight on lobby register’s second anniversary
Two years after its introduction the European Commission’s lobby register has failed to bring lobbying into the open, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU) said today. The group used the anniversary of the register to call on the Commission to take urgent steps towards a mandatory, joint register for …
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Europe losing sight of sustainable and green future
European leaders, meeting today in Brussels, are seriously jeopardising the European Union’s chances of averting catastrophic man made climate change, and tackling the economic crisis by delaying the crucial decision to unilaterally increase targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions. They are closing the door on innovation, green investment and up to a million new jobs …
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