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Conference: Responsible or irresponsible: Europe’s resource use and its impacts

Europe imports huge amounts of resources; but exactly how much, and at what cost? Is Europe consuming natural resources responsibly; or irresponsibly over-consuming, without consideration of the impacts? Europe is recognising the urgent need to tackle its resource dependency: the European Commission has published its Flagship Initiative on resource efficiency, and the Roadmap to a …

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NEW REPORT: More than half land Europe consumes comes from outside the continent

Brussels, October 10, 2011 – Europe’s ‘land footprint’ is one of the largest in the world, and the continent is more dependent on land from outside its borders than any other, new research published today reveals. [1] Friends of the Earth Europe and the Sustainable Europe Research Institute have measured flows of ‘virtual land’ around …

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Europe’s resource reduction plan doesn’t measure up

Brussels, September 20, 2011 – A plan unveiled today to tackle Europe’s dependency on imported resources does not go far enough to end the region’s over-consumption of the world’s water, land and other materials. The Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe [1] acknowledges that major increases in Europe’s resource efficiency are needed to compensate for …

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European Commission sued for lack of transparency on biofuels policy

Brussels, May 26, 2011 – The European Commission was sued today, accused of violating European transparency laws. Environmental law organisation ClientEarth, Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE), FERN and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) filed the lawsuit following the Commission’s refusal to provide access to information in decisions relating to the sustainability of Europe’s biofuels policy. …

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Biofuels: No sustainability in sight

Brussels, June 10, 2010 – Commenting on the European Commission’s Communication on new sustainability criteria for biofuels, Adrian Bebb, food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: “Europe’s policy on biofuels is inherently unsustainable. It is driving deforestation, damaging the environment, creating more greenhouse gas emissions, increasing hunger and encouraging rampant land-grabbing …

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