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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EU losing direction in the climate debate
EU Environment Ministers meeting today in Luxembourg shelved a Commission report [1] analysing the possibility of increasing the EU’s current 20% by 2020 emissions target. Friends of the Earth Europe believes that this jeopardises the EU’s chances of averting catastrophic man made climate change. The decision came on the same day as a UN climate …
Biofuels: No sustainability in sight
Brussels, June 10, 2010 – Commenting on the European Commission’s Communication on new sustainability criteria for biofuels, Adrian Bebb, food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: “Europe’s policy on biofuels is inherently unsustainable. It is driving deforestation, damaging the environment, creating more greenhouse gas emissions, increasing hunger and encouraging rampant land-grabbing …
