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Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency

To revert the current ecological overshoot and build a sustainable society, we have to collectively engage in changing our economic model. “Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency” suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends—in particular to overconsumption—and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by …

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Sufficiency – a call for transformative and systemic change

In the world we aspire to, everybody has equal access to natural resources and energy to meet their needs. But how do we get there? Our newly released booklet “Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency” suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends – in particular to overconsumption – and putting emphasis on distributional justice. …

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New EU waste law finalised

More than two years since the European Commission launched its revised proposals to tackle resource use and waste in Europe, negotiations have come to an end and a new EU law to tackle waste for the next 20 years has been finalised. The new law will ensure an improvement in waste management across Europe, but …

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Open Letter to Environment Ministers

Friends of the Earth Europe, together with an alliance of European-wide civil society organisations, has sent an open letter to Environment Ministers from all EU Member States urging them to support more ambitious measures ahead of final negotiations on amendments to EU waste legislation. We call for binding reduction targets for marine litter and food …

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