Jakarta (Indonesia) / Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Brussels (Belgium), 3 July 2007 – Wilmar, the world’s biggest trader in palm oil, is illegally logging rainforests, setting forests on fire and violating the rights of local communities in Indonesia according to a new report published today by Friends of the Earth Netherlands. [1] Friends of the …
Europe can be happy and low-carbon, shows new index
Brussels, 16 July – Europeans can live long and be happy without the need for soaring carbon dioxide emissions, shows the European Happy Planet Index launched today by nef (the new economics foundation) and Friends of the Earth Europe. The Nordic countries demonstrate that low carbon living is compatible with high levels of well-being, but …
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Europe clinging to dinosaur energy policy
Brussels, 8 March 2006 – Old fashioned and backward looking – a so-called new EU energy policy grounded in the days of the dinosaurs. This is the verdict of Friends of the Earth Europe on the EU’s Energy Plan to be published later today. Jan Kowalzig, energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe in …
Environment Ministers water down EU waste policy
Brussels, 29th June 2007 – Environmental NGOs today condemned the results of yesterday’s Environment Council vote as a serious climb-down on more than 30 years of European waste policy. Ministers promoted incineration and missed the opportunity to modernise waste policy so that it increases Europe’s resource efficiency and reduces its climate impacts. The Ministers voted …
Environment ministers must reject EU plan to promote incineration
Brussels, 26th June 2007 – Environmental NGOs today called on EU Environment Ministers to reject a plan to redefine waste incineration from ‘disposal’ to ‘recovery’, arguing that the redefinition would promote environmentally-damaging incineration and is, in any case, unnecessary. Under current EU law, most incinerators are defined as disposal installations, and installations can only be …
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G8 to feed oil addiction, fuelling climate change
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / LONDON (UK), 14 July 2006 — G8 plans to address global energy security are dirty, dangerous and will continue to fuel climate change, Friends of the Earth warned today on the eve of the G8 summit taking place in St Petersburg, Russia (1).An early draft of the G8 Plan of Action suggested …
