How boosting energy efficiency in Bulgaria can lift people out of energy poverty, while cutting energy use and boosting quality of life.
Solidarity with Wallonia to Stop CETA
Friends of the Earth Europe has developed a poster to show support to Wallonia in their stand to Stop CETA. The posters are available in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque. You can choose between A3 and A4 formats. The text says: ‘WE STAND WITH WALLONIA IN REJECTING CETA’. We propose the …
Making Sense of CETA
Seven years after negotiations began on the EU–Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), political leaders appear finally ready to sign the deal at a ceremony in Brussels in October 2016. Much has changed since then. For Europe, CETA started as a low-profile agreement with broad, if mostly disinterested, political support. It is now the …
Governments must keep ambitious targets for recycling – open letter from civil society
Eleven civil society organisations, including NGOs, think tanks and progressive business groups, have written a joint open letter to all 28 EU Environment Ministers, calling on them to adopt ambitious and binding recycling targets. The European Council is currently debating changes to EU waste laws, which were proposed in December 2015 by the European Commission …
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Joint Interpretative Declaration on CETA – Unpacking the “clarifications” on investment protection
A passage-by-passage analysis of the Joint Interpretative Declaration. The investment protection chapter included in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) enshrines expansive and ill-defined provisions that can be used by corporations to launch arbitration disputes. It does not prevent investor attacks against regulations protecting the public interest and the environment, and is therefore a …
Energy efficiency first: more reasons to back a higher target for 2030
This short briefing spells out why the cheapest, cleanest, safest energy is the energy we don’t actually need. Every 1% improvement in energy efficiency means savings equivalent to 12 million cars. There are also significant savings and reduced energy use.
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