This paper, from Friends of the Earth Europe and CEE Bankwatch, assesses the progress, or otherwise, of environmental mainstreaming within Cohesion Policy programming in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia.
Community Power – taking control of energy, for people and planet
We need to drastically cut our emissions if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change. This means burning less fossil fuels. All over Europe communities and citizens are already taking control of their energy future and producing community-owned clean, renewable energy. These community energy projects create lots of added benefits for the communities involved, from …
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Meat Atlas: facts and figures about the animals we eat
The report presents a global perspective on the impacts of industrial meat and dairy production, and illustrates its increasingly devastating impact on society and the environment. The way we produce and consume meat and dairy needs a radical rethink. The Meat Atlas aims to catalyse the debate over the need for better, safer and more …
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Community Power – the benefits of an energy revolution
By putting communities and citizens at the heart of a shift to clean energy we can achieve a transition more quickly, fairly and with added benefits. This briefing explores the many benefits of community energy: for the climate, for the people and communities involved in owning or running their own energy production, and for society as a whole. The briefing …
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Commodity Crimes
This report is the result of an investigation into two of the world’s leading distributors of palm oil. It documents the illegal logging of land near protected forests in Indonesia by Bumitama Agri Group. The illegal activities include irregular permits, the encroachment on land which is home to endangered orangutans, and illegal clearing and landgrabbing. The …
Land footprint scenarios
This study by the Sustainable Europe Research Institute for Friends of the Earth Europe looks at the impacts of Europe’s ‘land ‘footprint’. Land is a limited global resource and changes in Europe’s consumption of land are felt around the globe.
