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EVENT
December 02-10 December, 2011
Brussels, Belgium
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Durban Youth Convergence in Brussels
During the second week of Durban climate talks, a week-long European Youth convergence for climate justice was organised in Brussels. For a week, the ‘Durban in Brussels’ acted as a hub for over a 100 young people, providing an open space for individuals and organisation from climate justice movement to get together. This week included actions in Brussels, capacity building and skill share sessions and plenty of discussions.
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CONFERENCE
November 8-9, 2011
Brussels, Belgium
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Europe’s Resource Use: Responsible or Irresponsible?
FoEE’s two-day Resource Conference at the European Parliament (hosted by MEP Fiona Hall) gathered a range of resources experts, researchers and Members of the European Parliament as speakers to discuss Europe’s urgent need to tackle its resource dependency. This conference discussed what a responsible, resource efficient Europe should look like, and how to get there. Furthermore it looked at measuring resource use as the key to understanding, and ultimately reducing Europe’s consumption levels as well as considering the exacerbation of social inequalities through Europe’s consumption of resources.
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ACTION
October 12, 2011
Brussels, Belgium
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CAP REFORM: too little to protect the environment and greener farming
Proposed reforms to the future of farming in Europe, announced today in Brussels, are insufficient to protect the environment and the majority of farmers and will contribute to wildlife and farmers disappearing at an unprecedented rate. The Commission’s proposals include well-meaning initiatives, but they’re simply not enough to address these problems, and the overall package is weak. Securing a viable future where farmers get a fair deal and our natural resources are protected is urgent and essential. In the new CAP reform some of the simplest of measures are missing and its omission shows the influence of agri-business, pushing intensively-farmed monocultures at the expense of fairer and greener farming.
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ACTION
September 06, 2011
Brussels, Belgium
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FoEE pushing for beekeepers' victory
Today Europe’s highest court ruled that honey contaminated with genetically modified (GM) crops would need full safety approval and would have to be labelled as GM thus upholding the rights of beekeepers and consumers to keep honey free from GM contamination. Furthermore, this ruling opens the way for Europe’s laws on GM crops to be strengthened. This is a victory for beekeepers, consumers and the movement for GM-free agriculture in Europe. The ruling re-writes the rule book and gives legal backing to stronger measures to prevent contamination from the likes of Monsanto.
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EVENT
May 18, 2011
Brussels, Belgium
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Leading industry laggards meet at European Business Summit
Friends of the Earth Europe produce spoofed European Voice newspaper
Key business sectors who are preventing effective action against climate changemet at the European Business Summit in Brussels.
Friends of the Earth Europe singled out prominent EU lobby group and summit organiser, BusinessEurope, for blocking ambitious climate action, and produced a special Business Summit publication - the European Noise.
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Debate
March 16, 2011
Brussels, Belgium
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Pressure mounts for EU clampdown on tar sands
The EU came today under renewed pressure to effectively ban the world’s most climate polluting transport fuel from Europe.
A coalition of environmental organisations has been campaigning for the European Union’s Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) to address the significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) resulting from tar sands oil, which would effectively stop the controversial fuel, primarily produced in Alberta, Canada entering Europe.
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ACTION
February 4, 2011
Brussels, Belgium
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A bright idea: setting a binding EU energy savings target
European Heads of State meeting today in Brussels for a special energy summit were urged to show support for a binding target to drive down energy consumption. Friends of the Earth Europe campaigners recreated the Archimedes' 'Eureka moment', with Herman Van Rompuy naked in a bath discovering the benefits of a binding EU energy savings target.
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