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Open letter: Reform the EU’s economic rules for wellbeing of all people and planet

17/10/2022

Friends of the Earth Europe joined over 130 civil society organisations in sending a letter to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, to demand that the IFC stop using public taxpayer dollars to finance exploitative industrial agriculture.

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Activists suing Norwegian government to stop dumping of mining waste in pristine fjord

22/07/2022

Naturvernforbundet / Friends of the Earth Norway and Natur og Ungdom / Young Friends of the Earth Norway will sue the Norwegian government over permission for the dumping of mining waste into the pristine Førdefjord, on the country’s western coast. Despite strong opposition, the government recently approved the final permit for Nordic Mining’s open-pit rutile …

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Lighting a new economy across Europe

28/06/2022

Our vision is of an economy transformed. We want an economy that’s within Earth’s limits, that’s truly democratic, participative and public, where work and business are transformed, and that embodies the core values of sufficiency, care and empathy, equality and inclusiveness, and autonomy. This vision is set out in our paper 7 Sparks to Light …

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The disease of over-consumption, and how to treat it

30/05/2022

Climate crisis is the symptom, Overconsumption is the disease With the European Environmental Bureau and the European Youth Forum, we have launched a new animated scrolling webpage to raise awareness of, and pose concrete solutions to, systemic EU overconsumption. Overconsumption is a giant hole in the European Green Deal and the interrelated EU environmental and …

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Manifesto for a green, just and democratic European economy

15/03/2022

More than 270 civil society organisations, think tanks, trade unions, academics and employers have come together to support this manifesto calling for fundamental reform of the EU’s fiscal rules. We need to scrap outdated rules that put a cap on public spending, and instead reform rules so that they help to fully achieve an environmentally …

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Young activists ready to stop mining facility to save Norwegian fjord

09/03/2022

Norwegian environmentalists have stepped up their efforts to prevent dumping of mine waste in pristine Norwegian fjords. Young activists are ready for civil disobedience as Nordic Mining prepares to start construction by the Førdefjord in Sunnfjord, western Norway. Last week, activists from Naturvernforbundet / Friends of the Earth Norway, Natur og Ungdom / Young Friends …

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