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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 …
Pigs in Trafalgar Square scoff leftovers at mass free lunchRead more
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 …
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 …
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 …
Conference: Responsible or irresponsible: Europe’s resource use and its impactsRead more
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 …
NEW REPORT: More than half land Europe consumes comes from outside the continentRead more
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 …
Europe’s resource reduction plan doesn’t measure upRead more
