December 2007
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Extractive Industries |
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Hellfire Economics
Multinational companies and the contract dispute over Kashagan, the world's largest undeveloped oilfield. Read more |
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Extractive Industries |
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Kashagan oil field development
Toxic chemicals linked to development of the Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan are polluting the Caspian Sea environment and damaging the health and livelihoods of local communities. Read more |
October 2007
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Biotechnology |
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Too Close for Comfort: The Relationship between the biotech industry and the European Commission
This report examines the biotech industry's corporate lobby power and its access to one of the key EU institutions, the European Commission. It focuses on one of the key biotech lobby groups - EuropaBio - and recent examples of the cosy relationship between the companies who stand to make considerable profits from agricultural biotechnology, and policy makers at the European Commission.
Read in English and Spanish
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Extractive Industries |
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Extractive Industries: Blessing or Curse?
A series of factsheets examining the social and environmental impacts of coal, oil and gas extraction, all available in English and French. The six factsheets in the series are:
1. Impacts of European oil companies English, French, Slovakian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Czech
2. Impacts on developing countries English, French, Slovakian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Czech
3. Impacts of mining English, French, Slovakian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Czech
4. Climate change English, French, Slovakian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian
5. Financing extractive industries English, French, Slovakian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Czech
6. Impacts on gender issues English, French, Slovakian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Czech
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Safe energy for Europe |
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Nuclear industry: Face your demons - towards full liability for nuclear power plant operators
Nuclear power plant operators have a ridiculously small liability insurance for compensating damage when an accidents occurs. This position paper exposes the scale of the gap between the insured sum and the huge financial risk of nuclear accidents.
It also introduces an alternative system for insuring nuclear power plants which is currently being discussed between academics and regulators. This system might provide at least more financial security for people living in the area around nuclear power plants. |
September 2007
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Greenwash Confronted |
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Greenwash Confronted -
Misleading Advertising Regulation in the EU and its Member States
A comprehensive FoE Europe report exploring new European legislation dealing with misleading advertising and the different methods available at the national level to deal with this problem. |
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Chemicals |
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Navigating REACH
An activists' guide to using and improving the new EU chemicals legislation |
July 2007
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World's biggest palm oil trader shamed |
 
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2 reports revealing that 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
Policy, practice, pride and prejudice: Review of legal, environmental and social practices of oil palm plantation companies of the Wilmar Group in Sambas District, West Kalimantan (Indonesia)
Buyers and financiers of the Wilmar Group
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| Statement |
Mednet |
Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area (EMFTA)
Friends of the Earth MedNet submission to the stakeholder consultation of 10 July 2007 |
June 2007
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Major international banks finance catastrophic mud volcano |
 
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2 reports revealing that major international banks are financing a catastrophic mud volcano in Indonesia:
The financing of the three Brantas PSC companies
Lapindo Brantas and the mud volcano, Sidoarjo, Indonesia |
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Face the future |
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Face the future
The Green 10's guide to facing the EU's future environmental challenges |
May 2007
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| Statement |
Trade |
The strategy for a Competitive Europe: the true objective of the EU-CAN Agreement
Common NGO position negotiations on an association agreement between the EU and the Community of Andean Nations (CAN) |
| Statement |
Mednet |
Statement ) to the 12th Meeting of the Mediterranean Commission for Sustainable Development (MCSD) in Istanbul |
| Publication |
My Voice |
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My Voice
Advice for consumers about how to demand better protection of human health and the environmnent from hazardous chemicals |
April 2007
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| Publication |
Friends of the Earth Europe Annual Review 2006 |
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Friends of the Earth Europe Annual Review 2006 |
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Green 10 |
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'Could Try Harder'
A mid-term report on the European Commission's environmental record |
| Open letter |
Trade |
New FTA negotiating directives
and the Global Europe policy
Open letter to EU Ministers
responsible for Trade and External Relations in advance of
the General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting,
Luxembourg, 23-24 April 2007, from civil society organisations
across Europe, Latin America and Asia English Spanish |
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EU Funds |
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EU cash in climate clash - How the EU funding plans are shaping up to fuel climate change
Comparative analysis of the 2007-2013 structural funding allocations for energy and transport in the new member states
Colour
Black and white
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March 2007
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GMOs |
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The EU's Biotechnology Strategy: mid-term review or mid-life crisis?
A scoping study on how European agricultural biotechnology will fail the Lisbon objectives and on the socio-economic benefits of ecologically compatible farming
Full report
Executive Summary
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| Statement |
Trade |
Call for Action on the Crisis in Agricultural Commodities
Common NGO position in support of the African Group proposal submitted to the WTO Agriculture Committee on June 7th 2006
English French |
February 2007
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Nuclear |
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Nuclear Power: Only problems. No solutions
Facts and figures about nuclear power
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January 2007
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Corporates |
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Shell: Use your profits to clean up your mess
Report on how Shell should fund local solutions for environmental and social
destruction caused by its projects
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GMOs |
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Who benefits from GM crops?
An analysis of the global performance of genetically modified crops (1996-2006)
Executive summary (32 pages)
Highlights (3 pages) |
| Letter |
Climate change |
Letter to Commissioners Barroso, Barrot, Verheugen, Dimas and Piebalgs urging for action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from cars
from the Green 10
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Publications from 2006 and earlier |
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