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Less is more: resource efficiency through waste collection, recycling and reuse

The European Union currently landfills and incinerates 60% of municipal waste. Valuable materials which could be recycled or re-used are being thrown away as rubbish, contributing to demand for more raw materials. In the case of textiles, for example, Europeans discard 5.8 million tonnes every year, with 75% going to landfill or incineration and only …

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Keeping their head in the sands: Canada’s EU Fuel Quality Directive lobby diary

Canadian government ministers have been actively lobbying the governments of 11 EU member states, European Parliament and Commission to weaken one of the EU’s headline pieces of climate legislation, the Fuel Quality Directive. Friends of the Earth Europe has revealed the details of this lobbying in this lobby diary. This is an unprecedented lobby effort to …

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Network news – December 2012

Dear FoEE groups, Welcome to December’s special edition of the Network News. This edition looks in-depth into four issues we’ve been working on over the last couple of months. An update on the situation with the EU Budget following the dramatic collapse of the budget summit last month; a report on the ALTER-EU conference on …

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No half measures: Investment needs in energy efficiency and renewables in the CEE countries

Our report analyses the investment needs in energy efficiency and renewable energy sources to ensure a transition to a low-carbon economy, and the positive effects this will have on employment and regional development. We looked at over 20 different EU, governmental, academic, NGO and expert sources listing the needs of seven new member states: Bulgaria, …

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Network news – October 2012

Welcome to the October edition of the Network News. This quarter’s edition features specials on September’s Good Food March in Brussels, and the European day of action against shale gas – Global Frackdown. All the regular updates are there as usual. This will be the last Network News in this format – in the next …

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