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Briefing: how Europe needs to more robustly regulate its financial sector

This briefing paper says that Europe needs to toughen-up its regulations for how investors deal with environmental and social risks. It is based on the joint submission by Global Witness and Friends of the Earth Europe, on 31st January 2016, in response to the European Commission’s call for evidence on the EU regulatory framework for …

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Nature is our right: policies to protect nature in Europe for the good of everyone

The laws that protect nature across Europe – the EU’s Birds and Habitats Directives (known as the ‘nature directives’) – are currently being reviewed by the European Union as part of the REFIT (Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme) process. The review will continue until the end of 2016. In this report, Friends of the Earth …

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Climate’s enfants terribles: misguided spending is holding back Europe’s clean energy transition

This new research shows that EU billions destined to transform the carbon-intensive, inefficient energy systems of central and eastern Europe (CEE) are being misspent. In nine CEE countries only 7 per cent of the 178 billion euros in European Regional Development and Cohesion Funds will be invested into renewables, energy efficiency and SMART grids, and …

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