Today, the EU Wellbeing Economy coalition is launching its vision for an economic system focused on meeting the fundamental needs and rights of all. Friends of the Earth Europe is a proud member of the coalition and we strongly believe that the European Union should place human and planetary wellbeing at the heart of its …
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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Tackling toxic myths on pesticides and food security
Key policy targets to reduce pesticide use, included in Europe’s Farm to Fork strategy, are being challenged by vested corporate interests seeking to prolong access to the European market. Big agribusiness and proponents of industrial agriculture are using the war in Ukraine as an excuse to lobby to extend the use of toxic pesticides in …
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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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