Pro Natura/FoE Switzerland, together with a large coalition of environment, development, and progressive farmers organisations, today submitted a petition against the development of agrofuels in Switzerland. The petition, signed by 62,000 people, was submitted to the Swiss government in Berne. The petition urges the government to establish strict criteria for authorising the production and the …
Pigs in Trafalgar Square scoff leftovers at mass free lunch
Five thousand people in Trafalgar Square, London, received a free lunch made from fresh ingredients saved from being chucked, as Friends of the Earth help highlighted the scandal of food waste at the Feeding the 5,000 event. The event highlighted the 16 million tonnes of food wasted in Britain every year and asked individuals, businesses …
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Conference presentations Nov 9th: Responsible or irresponsible: Europe’s resource use and its impacts
Presentations: 9th November 10:00 – 11:00 Europe’s land dependency and its impacts Stephan Lutter – Researcher, Sustainable Europe Research Institute Anders Dahlbeck – European Campaign Coordinator, ActionAid David Cardozo – Sobrevivencia (Friends of the Earth Paraguay) 11:30 – 12:30 Tackling Europe’s land dependency Michael Warhurst, Resources and Consumption Programme Co-ordinator, Friends of the Earth Europe …
Conference presentations Nov 8th – Responsible or irresponsible: Europe’s resource use and its impacts
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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