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The risks of fast-tracking mining projects under the CRMA

The Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) aims to secure the supply of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) for EU industries. Its extractivist approach boosts corporate profits while threatening communities, ecosystems, and global resource justice. Together with Amigos de la Tierra/ Friends of the Earth Spain, Iberian Mining Observatory, MiningWatch Portugal and the European Environmental Bureau, we …

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Briefing: Reduce resource use for a fairer, cleaner, more resilient Europe

Sustainable resources management and sufficiency are the only cost-effective strategies to achieve climate goals and resource justice. With the European Commissioner hearings coming up, Friends of the Earth Europe and partner organisations reached out to MEPs to point out a major blind spot of the new college of Commissioners and their mission letters: There is …

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A wave of Beyond Growth economics rolls across Europe

The movement to explore economic systems beyond growth is by now unstoppable. More and more grassroots collectives support this orientation, academic literature on benefits of degrowth is expanding fast and now, local civil society organise conferences to bring these systemic ideas closer to their national politicians – and into their very parliaments. Between April and …

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The EU’s mixed messaging on sustainable resource management

While environment ministers acknowledge the need of resource use reduction, the EU Strategic Agenda is set to ignore it During the EU Environmental Council meeting on 17 June 2024, ministers from different countries adopted ambitious conclusions on the mid-term review of the 8th Environmental Action Programme (EAP). In the conclusions, they admitted what we have …

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