02/10/20
Commission plan fails to bring Energy Charter Treaty in line with climate goals
A leaked European Commission proposal reveals that the EU is not serious about ending the protection of fossil …
08/09/20
UK fracking company sues Slovenia over environmental protection
A UK gas company, Ascent Resources, has officially begun procedures to start an investor dispute against Slove …
![Ascent Resources intended to frack gas out of the Petišovci gas field in eastern Slovenia, but was unable to gain a permit](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/frek1-1030x4201-1.jpg)
02/08/20
How the EU-Mercosur deal would wreck human rights and fuel forest fires
http://www.youtube.com/embed/CrXwyHj7D6Q Lungs on fire Today, more than ever, the Amazon rainforest, the “lung …
![Fires in the Amazon (C) Victor Moriyama](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/fires.jpg)
01/05/20
The unknown climate-killer deal we’ll have to tackle next
The Energy Charter Treaty takes an axe to climate action By Thomas Dauphin, trade campaigner, Friends of …
06/12/19
Obscure energy treaty could thwart EU green deal
An obscure investment treaty, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), could undermine the goals of Europe’s Green Dea …
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29/08/19
Our house is on fire – let’s act
by Jagoda Muni?, director of Friends of the Earth Europe “I want you to act as if our house is on fire”, clima …
![Fires in the Amazon, Brazil (C) Corpo de Bombeiros de Mato Grosso - AP](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/burning_amazon-800x561.jpg)