Pressure on the world’s resources is rapidly increasing, as people’s living standards rise in many poorer countries across the world, while those in richer countries already use large amounts of resources. This is leading to volatile & increasing prices for key resources, and is creating negative environmental & social impacts like deforestation and high food …
Briefing: Seven ways Europe can use fewer resources
The European Commission started developing the EU’s resource efficiency agenda by including it as one of the pillars of the Europe 2020 strategy – its 10 year overarching plan launched in 2010. This briefing outlines the seven key steps that the EU can take to use fewer resources and ensure that we live in a …
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Briefing: PRIMES modelling on 2030 energy efficiency targets
Briefing: Fiddling the numbers on the 2030 energy efficiency target
New information from an Access to Documents request shows that the real costs of a 2030 efficiency target may be much lower than those published by the European Commission.
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Biodiversity position paper
It is an understatement to say that biodiversity is important to Friends of the Earth Europe. Our members have a long tradition of working to conserve and restore biodiversity. This paper brings together FoEE’s existing views and its new thinking on biodiversity and related policies in a common position.
Position paper: Nature is not for sale
This position paper summarises and explains Friends of the Earth Europe’s position on biodiversity offsetting, in response to proposed EU policy which would introduce new systems of biodiversity offsetting as a theoretical way to secure “no net loss” of biodiversity. The concept is that if damage is caused to biodiversity in one place e.g. by …
