Brussels, 3 July 2008 – Green campaigners today urged the European Union to ‘push for fuel efficiency’ and agree tough targets for reducing the fuel consumption of cars. As European officials come under mounting pressure from car manufacturers to weaken proposed legislation, Friends of the Earth Europe and other environment groups pushed vehicles around European …
Europe urged to scrap biofuel targets to ease food crisis
Brussels, 2 June 2008 – Using crops to make biofuels is contributing to the global food crisis and will lead to millions of people going hungry, warn international development and environment groups today. The statement is made in a letter to the European Commission and EU Heads of State urging them to abandon the proposed …
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New European Chemicals Agency must act on hazardous chemicals
WHEN: The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) will open on 3rd June 2008 in Helsinki. WHAT: The task of the European Chemicals Agency is to assure the implementation of REACH, the EU chemicals regulation that entered into force on 1st June 2007 after 8 years of fierce debate. WHAT IS AT STAKE: The opening of ECHA …
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Green schemes for biofuel crops set to fail
Buenos Aires (Argentina) / Brussels (Belgium), April 22, 2008 – Attempts to use certification schemes to reduce the widespread environmental and social problems caused by growing crops for fuels and animal feeds are bound to fail, states a new report released today by Friends of the Earth groups. [1] The report is released on the …
MEPs vote again for recycling and waste prevention – now EU Governments must follow Parliament’s example
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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