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The many social, environmental and economic benefits that would result from robust resource policies have been recognised by both the European Union and the governments of its member states. For example, by boosting re-use and repair of products, jobs are created while the impacts from mineral and metal extraction, incineration and landfill are avoided. But …
Preventing Waste: recycling isn’t enough for a circular economyRead more
Limiting the use of biofuels from food crops that can be used to fuel Europe’s cars moved a step closer today after MEPs voted to reform the EU’s biofuels policy. EU law-makers voted once again to put a cap on the use of crops to make biofuels and also to account for their full climate …
Ahead of a crucial EU vote on capping biofuel quotas on Tuesday, almost 200 civil society organisations from across South East Asia and Latin America have called on EU decision-makers to halt the devastating impacts of EU biofuels policy on people and the environment. The EU’s use of palm oil for transport fuel is highly …
Farmers in Uganda evicted by oil palm plantations are today presenting a lawsuit against a joint venture co-owned by the oil palm giant Wilmar International [1]. They are claiming restitution for their grabbed land and fair compensation for damages, three years after their land was taken for plantation development. Friends of the Earth International is …
Ugandan oil palm project taken to court over land-grab claimsRead more
In January, Anne van Schaik, accountable finance campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe visited Uganda to talk with local communities and leaders on the effect of a palm oil plantation project in two islands in Lake Victoria and plan the next steps in a Friends of the Earth campaign against the financiers of landgrabbing. …
No news is bad news: land grabs and palm oil expansion in UgandaRead more
As the UN Year of Soils begins, BUND/Friends of the Earth Germany today published the Soil Atlas 2015, which calls for a radical rethink of how much land we use to support ourselves. The report, co-published with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam and Le Monde Diplomatique, draws on …
