A rise in plastic food packaging is failing to reduce Europe’s growing food waste problem, and in some cases may even be fueling it, according this study prepared by the Institute for European Environmental Policy for Friends of the Earth Europe and Zero Waste Europe. The report is accompanied by a series of factsheets that …
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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European Commission takes steps to reduce plastic pollution
Today the European Commission has stepped forward to address plastic pollution with the release of its Strategy on Plastics in the Circular Economy, says the Rethink Plastic alliance, of which Friends of the Earth Europe is a member. The Strategy lays out the Commission’s approach to reduce the impact of plastic pollution, including a commitment …
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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 …
Citizens, policy makers, NGOs: Learn to focus on enough
Our current level of overconsumption is plundering the Earth’s resources at a faster rate than they can be regenerated. This cannot last forever – and we are beginning to see the impacts of the system breaking down. Not only at the environmental level, but also at the social one. The number of murdered environmental defenders …
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