To avoid the worst effects of climate chaos, we must radically transform, equitably and justly, the way we produce our food, manage our ecosystems, and power our economies. We must urgently deploy real and proven, socially just and people-led solutions and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions at source, down to Real Zero. Real Zero Europe …
Manifesto for agricultural transition to address systemic climate crises
Friends of the Earth Europe together with 13 civil society organisations call on the European Institutions to work on an ambitious and fair agricultural transition to ensure that European agriculture is able to face the climate challenge and that its impact can be radically reduced. In 13 concrete action points and a supporting rationale, the …
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Open letter: Urgent need for EU plan to leave the ECT
Recently, major EU countries such as France, Germany, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands are exiting the obsolete Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) in turns. The ECT reform deal fails to align the trade deal with the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal climate goals. France, Germany and Belgium have now decided not to support the …
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No more delaying the EU pesticide regulation
Together with 29 other civil society groups, organic mouvements, beekeepers associations and biocontrol manufacturers, we condemn the attacks to weaken the ambition of the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation (SUR) and urge national ministers and the European Parliament not to call for further delays in its adoption.
How & why to fight fossil gas – 101
At Friends of the Earth Europe, we believe in people power. Histories have been made all because communities, collectives, and movements got together, got organised, and took action. With rising energy prices and the climate crisis at our doorstep it is time that we took control of our own futures, starting with the fight against …
Study: International solidarity and the struggle against corporate power
This report examines the definition of collective rights and how they relate to the defence of human rights through an environmental justice perspective. It provides reflections from Latin America on COVID-19 and corporate violations of human – and collective rights. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how unviable neoliberalism – from its doctrine to its actions …
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