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How the toxic EU-Mercosur deal will undermine Brazil’s climate & deforestation goals

This February, deforestation in the Amazon reached a new record high.   2021 was supposed to mark the start of the implementation of Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement to limit global heating. But instead, gross emissions have risen 40% since the Paris Agreement.  Our new factsheet, produced with Reporter Brasil, exposes …

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The human and environmental costs of Europe financing industrial animal farming

This piece of research shows how some of Europe’s biggest financiers are channelling huge amounts of money into European industrial food and feed industries with harmful impacts on human rights, the environment and climate. European banks are heavily investing in some of Europe’s largest meat, dairy, and feed companies, whose global value chains are linked …

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How big agri ghost-writes the Commission’s proposal on new GMOs

The European Commission will present a new legislation for a new generation of genetically modified plants (new GMOs, now also called new genomic techniques or NGT) beginning of June 2023, with far-reaching implications including the release of untested plants into nature and onto our plates. A new investigation by Friends of the Earth Europe reveals …

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How European trade deals will propel destructive agribusiness in the Mercosur region

The people and lands of Brazil are facing a legacy of destruction. Four years of Bolsonaro’s aggressive anti-environmental presidential agenda sparked skyrocketing levels of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, rural conflicts and contemporary slave labour. Now Bolsonaro is gone but major agribusiness corporations – many linked directly to European company supply chains – continue to …

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Open letter: Commission President must stick to Sustainable Food System Law timeline

Political resistance against sustainable food policies is threatening to derail the process for an EU Sustainable Food Systems Law. Against this backdrop, Friends of the Earth Europe joins 285 other organisations in issuing an open letter urging European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to ensure the Commission proposal is presented by September 2023, as …

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