Brussels, April 9 – The European Environmental Bureau and Friends of the Earth Europe have strongly welcomed yesterday’s vote in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee reasserting the need for EU-level targets on waste prevention and recycling. Voting on the Waste Framework Directive, an overwhelming majority favoured targets for Member States to stabilise waste generation by …
Environmental groups call for credible biofuel safeguards
Brussels, 4 April 2008 – Leaked EU documents reveal that preliminary negotiations to establish sustainability criteria for biofuels could fail to prevent an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and fail to stop negative impacts on wildlife and people, international environment groups warned today. The documents reveal that EU Member States are currently planning to apply …
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Suspect timber in EU building projects
Amsterdam/Brussels, 19 March 2008 – Friends of the Earth is calling on the European Commission to adopt environmental legislation to prevent illegal timber from being sold on the European market, following an investigation which discovered illegal or destructively logged timber in four EU construction projects. The timber originated from the Amazon, Central Africa, Russia and …
New draft law exposes weak EU standards for agrofuels
Brussels, 7 December 2007 – A leaked copy of a new draft law to regulate the use of agrofuels (biofuels) in Europe reveals that the EU will fail to protect the environment and the world’s poor, warned Friends of the Earth Europe today. Adrian Bebb, Agrofuels Campaign Coordinator for Friends of the Earth Europe said: …
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Illegal merbau in floors and exterior doors
Amsterdam, Brussels 18 December 2007 – Four years after the EU Action Plan on illegal timber was introduced, illegal and destructive timber continues to pour across Europe’s borders. A report released today by Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace shows that European consumers continue to unknowingly buy flooring and exterior doors made from illegally and …
RSPO: Stop destructive Palm Oil
Brussels/Amsterdam, 9 October 2007 – Green campaigners warned today that proposals for certifying palm oil as sustainable are flawed. As the Round Table for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) presented proposals to label sustainable palm oil, Friends of the Earth groups staged an installation of screaming tree stumps outside the meeting in Brussels, representing the current …
