Highlights of Friends of the Earth Europe’s campaigns in Brussels, key successes from our 31 member groups across Europe. Also contains financial information, capacity building projects across the network, publications, and our aims for the year ahead.
Working for development? ArcelorMittal’s mining operations in Liberia
This report raises critical questions about the ArcelorMittal’s complicity in the misuse of the first tranche of approximately US$4.7 million County Social Development Fund in Liberia and warns that the fund could be stolen and misused by politicians in charge to support their upcoming election campaigns in 2011.
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Three Briefings on Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) and Emissions from Biofuel Crops
EU biofuel targets are leading to a rapid increase in demand for agricultural land at the expense of forests and other carbon rich habitats. This expansion is often indirect – biofuel crops displace other crops which move to the forest. Scientific research has now shown that emissions from indirect land use change (ILUC) have the …
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Africa: Up for grabs – The scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels
The amount of land being taken in Africa to meet Europe’s increasing demand for biofuels is underestimated and out of control, this investigation reveals. The research looks at 11 African countries and finds at least five million hectares of land is being acquired by foreign companies to produce biofuels mainly for the European market. The …
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Half a million new jobs could be created in Europe by recycling more
At least 500,000 new jobs would be created in Europe if countries recycled 70% of their waste finds a new study, ‘More Jobs, Less Waste’, launched by Friends of the Earth today. This is the recycling rate already achieved by Flanders in Belgium.
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Overconsumption – Our use of the world’s natural resources
Many of the problems that threaten mankind’s survival on the planet result from the increased consumption of energy, water and raw materials, the increased production of waste and emissions and the increased human use of land area. This report provides evidence on current trends in resource use in different world regions and its environmental and …
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