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How business lobbies against liability for human rights and environmental abuses

Corporate lobbyists are fighting a proposed EU law that seeks to hold companies accountable for human rights abuses and environmental destruction. While some employ outright hostility and are clear that they don’t want the law in the first place, more insidious are those companies that while appearing cooperative, seek to fatally weaken the rules. Friends …

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Driving destructive mining

We’ve joined 180+ communities, organisations and academics to call on on the EU to abandon its plans to expand dirty mining as part of the EU Green Deal. Plans to drastically increase mining in Europe and in the global South are bad news for the climate, ecosystems and human rights around the world. Whatever the …

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Barriers and threats to community power

Community energy has become a recognized force pushing forward the whole community energy transition. Yet, despite gaining support in EU law, community energy often faces a plethora of barriers that slow down or block projects from succeeding. From grid access, to access to financial capital, to burdensome bureaucracy – too often the potential of community …

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Financing Community Energy

EU Community Power Coalition position paper on putting local energy transition and community resilience at the heart of the green recovery As policy-makers all over Europe work to revive our economies ravaged by the pandemic, the EU Community Power Coalition calls for an economic recovery that ensures society and local communities are greener and fairer …

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Annual Review 2020

Read the Annual Review 2020 online 2020 was a year like no other, but the struggle for environmental and social justice continued. Introducing the Friends of the Earth Europe 2020 Annual Review. 2020 saw significant successes despite the circumstances, and even major victories. Friends of the Earth Netherlands’ achieved a historic win in court against …

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