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Development banks have no business financing agribusiness

On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks in Rome, 280 groups from 70 countries have signed a letter slamming them for bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture, environmental destruction and corporate control of the food system. The signatories affirm only fully public and accountable funding mechanisms based on people’s actual needs …

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Editing the truth – Genome editing is not a solution to climate change

Agriculture is caught in a vicious loop as industrial farming both drives climate change and suffers as a result. To help us out of the climate crisis and maintain food production, biotech companies claim to have the answer: new genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This new briefing by Friends of the Earth Europe debunks this false …

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Discovering the role of food environments for sustainable food systems

Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”. The concept of food environments has been adopted by a range of leading organisations and incorporated in a number of initiatives, including the European …

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How to make corporations effectively respect the environment and climate

    The European Union urgently needs to enshrine obligations for corporations to respect the environment and the climate in its law making. The forthcoming EU legislation on sustainable corporate governance will include a legal obligation to conduct due diligence – a good start but not a silver bullet to prevent businesses from causing environmental …

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‘Green mining’ is a myth

The case for cutting EU resource consumption This report, published jointly with the European Environmental Bureau, exposes the myth of so-called ‘green mining’. It shows that the EU is already extracting and consuming a dangerous proportion of the world’s limited resources. And the European Commission’s plans for a European Green Deal will lead to a …

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EU Trade Commissioner: Stop EU-Mercosur

Amid record-breaking deforestation, rampant fires and increased attacks against indigenous people in Brazil, the European commission is still pushing for the ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Recent reports have shown that deforestation rates are even higher than previous year. The commission is trying to save the deal by fixing it with environmental protocols, but …

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