Presentations: 8th November 9:40 – 10:30 Opening – How responsible is Europe’s resource consumption? Jacqueline McGlade – Executive Director, European Environment Agency 11:00 – 12:30 Can decoupling result in responsible resource use? Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel – Member of the UNEP International Resources Panel Ton Manders – Deputy Head, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Keith …
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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EU fuelling hunger by grabbing land for biofuels
Development and environmental groups today warned that EU biofuels targets are leading to uncontrollable land grabbing from poor communities in Africa, pushing more people into hunger [1]. On the day before EU Member States submit their renewable energy plans to the EU, ActionAid and Friends of the Earth Europe called on European leaders to halt …
