Friends of the Earth Europe along with 40 other civil society organisations sent this action plan to European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, demanding accelerated action to ensure access to clean, affordable energy for all. Rather than focusing on diversifying the EU’s gas supply, we need to stop all fossil fuel expansion and make fossil …
Joint letter: Europe must transition away from synthetic pesticides
Over 70 European organisations, including Friends of the Earth Europe, sent a joint statement to the European Commission Executive Vice-President Timmermans and Health & Food Safety Commissioner Kyriakides to express their deep concern about the lack of ambition of the Commission’s draft proposal for a “Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products” Regulation to be published on 23 March. They make 10 demands to reach an ambitious Regulation.
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Unpacking the upcoming EU law to stop corporate abuse
The EU is about to propose a law to make business accountable for corporate abuse. This includes activities leading to climate breakdown, biodiversity collapse, the erosion of workers’ and trade union rights, forced and child labour, growing poverty, and the killings of environmental and human rights defenders. What has happened until now, why do we …
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Strengthen the proposed EU deforestation-free products regulation
Friends of the Earth Europe together with over 100 environmental, climate and human rights organisations from Europe and beyond is calling on the European Parliament and EU Member States to close the loopholes in the proposed European Commission’s regulation to tackle EU-driven global deforestation. The statement highlights key policy demands that the European Parliament and …
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EU: To End Deforestation, Protect Land Rights
The European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law should require businesses to respect traditional communities’ rights over their territories or risk failing to deliver on its objectives, more than 191 Indigenous, environmental, and human rights organisations from 62 countries said in an open letter to EU policymakers. These communities’ territories host many of the world’s best-preserved forests …
7 Sparks to Light a New Economy
The economy is designed, and we can redesign it! – transformational ideas for a life-sustaining economy within Earth’s limits With our European network in 32 countries, Friends of the Earth Europe has developed 7 transformational ideas for a new economy for Europe. We hope it will inspire action to wholly transform the current dominant growth-based, …
