Many rules governing trade and investment today hinder efforts to achieve more sustainable economies. We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them. In this unprecedentedly comprehensive paper, Friends …
Unwrapped: how throwaway plastic is failing to solve Europe’s food waste problem (and what we need to do instead)
A rise in plastic food packaging is failing to reduce Europe’s growing food waste problem, and in some cases may even be fueling it, according this study prepared by the Institute for European Environmental Policy for Friends of the Earth Europe and Zero Waste Europe. The report is accompanied by a series of factsheets that …
Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency
To revert the current ecological overshoot and build a sustainable society, we have to collectively engage in changing our economic model. “Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency” suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends—in particular to overconsumption—and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by …
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Less and better: a call for policy action on animal farming
In recent decades, European food and farming have become heavily unbalanced in favour of industrial agricultural systems and factory farming, which produce meat, dairy and eggs unsustainably. We joined a large and diverse range of European civil society organisations – active in the areas of farming, pastoralism, animal welfare, environment, social justice, climate, forestry, health, …
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Open letter from civil society calling for the Bayer-Monsanto merger to be rejected
Ahead of a final decision from the European Commission on the Bayer-Monsanto meger, over 70 civil society organisations have called on the European Commission to reject the merger on competition grounds.
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Letter to MEPs on EU protein strategy: please stand up for forests, people and animals
Ahead of a vote in the European Parliament’s agriculture committee on EU policy on soy crops in the EU, we joined FERN, Humane Society International, Compassion in World Farming, Arche NOAH and Slow Food to call on MEPs to support an EU protein strategy that puts people and planet first.
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