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Joint letter: Ensure EUDR benchmarking reflects human rights and environmental risks

The EU Deforestation Law is only as good as its implementation. That’s why we have signed an open letter alongside 39 other organisations calling on the European Commission to ensure the country benchmarking objectively reflects real human rights and environmental risks. In our letter, we urge the Commission to ensure that the benchmarking methodology: Read …

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Roadmap for Pesticide Phase-Out

The widespread use of pesticides is not only threatens ecosystems and biodiversity but also impacts human health and human rights, including the right of present and future generations to live in a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Scientists have already issued a warning: more than 6,000 researchers recently called for drastic pesticide reduction to protect …

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How the agroindustry brought down the EU pesticide law

Despite the well-documented risks pesticides pose to biodiversity and human health, the European Union has consistently failed to make meaningful progress in reducing pesticide use, with pesticide sales barely decreasing over the last decade. Back in 2020, the European Commission announced its flagship Green Deal, promising to reform our food and agricultural system, including the …

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Joint letter – Ursula von der Leyen: Protect people, nature, and democracy in EU regulations

Food safety, public health, social protection, workers and labour rights, animal welfare, and environmental protections are the backbone of a fair and resilient society. In a joint and open letter initiated by Friends of the Earth Europe, Climate Action Network Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory, European Environmental Bureau, European Public Service Union, and the European Trade …

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Risky business: who wins and who loses when new GMOs go unchecked?

Under current European law, new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) must undergo a risk assessment before entering the market as food, feed or seeds. This is to protect citizens, wildlife and farm animals from the potentially harmful impacts of untested GMOs. However, big agribusiness lobby to eliminate these safeguards for the new generation of GMOs and …

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Locked seeds: who wins and who loses when new GMOs get patented?

Currently, just a handful of corporations control more than 60 percent of the global commercial seed market. Biotech industry giants, particularly Corteva, have secured significant control over patents for certain gene editing techniques called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), expanding their control over the plant patent landscape. While patented seeds have played a …

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