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The European Commission is developing new laws for certain raw materials. This “European Critical Raw Materials Act”, due to be published at the end of March 2023, will address certain materials that are of “strategic importance” across the EU economy, and of particular importance to the green and digital transitions (for example lithium). Friends of …
New EU laws on raw materials: What they must addressRead more
Resource extraction and overconsumption are the central drivers of environmental degradation and interrelated social challenges, yet policy makers remain too shy to address them. A recent workshop organised by NGOs and think tanks looked at how to move the debate forward. Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overconsumption, with climate change …
The time is ripe for resource use reduction targetsRead more
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.
Open letter: Reform the EU’s economic rules for wellbeing of all people and planetRead more
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 …
Activists suing Norwegian government to stop dumping of mining waste in pristine fjordRead more
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 …
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 …
The disease of over-consumption, and how to treat itRead more
