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Extractive industries Raising awareness of the devastating effects of extractive industries on environments, communities and the climate

EU hitches itself to climate-incompatible gas subsidies until 2027

12 December 2018

The European Parliament today voted to approve a 7-year extension of EU subsidies for climate-wrecking fossil gas projects, as part of the new budget.

While the climate emergency rightly takes more and more space in the political debate, it is still business-as-usual when opportunities to withdraw from fossil fuels come up, said Friends of the Earth Europe.

30 October 2018

Campaigners force Austrian backtrack on heating homes with oil

Global 2000/Friends of the Earth Austria campaigners have won a significant victory after forcing the Austrian oil and gas company OMV to end subsidies for oil heaters. OMV will by the end of 2019 phase out funds for a programme known as ‘Heizen mit Öl’ (‘heating with oil’), which promoted and gave financial payments for the installation of oil heating systems in Austrian homes.

Austria

9 October 2018

50,000 demonstrators out to defend forest and climate

In a dramatic show of people power, an estimated 50,000 people gathered on Saturday (6 October) to defend Hambach Forest and the climate.

Under crisp sunshine, they demanded an end to coal in Germany, a clean climate, and the protection of the ancient forest at threat from coal mining expansion.

Germany

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Friends of the Earth Europe works to prevent the extractive industries from destroying people's lives, the environment and the climate. We believe that resources should be utilised fairly and sustainably. Enforceable rules and practices are required to ensure that natural resources are a blessing, not a curse.

We are working to create the much-needed, fair and urgent transition to a fossil fuel free Europe by 2030 - dismantling the fossil fuel system and creating the just, clean energy future that people want and need.

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12 Dec 2018

Pipedream - Debunking the myths of Croatia’s Krk gas terminal

26 Jul 2018

Ten Steps to a Fossil Free Europe - booklet

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- Climate justice
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- Energy savings
  Less is more: reducing energy consumption for a safer planet and better homes
- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Fossil Free Europe
  Delivering a just transition to a 100% renewable, no nuclear, super energy-efficient, zero-fossil-fuel Europe by 2030
- Renewable energy
  Creating a future powered by clean, fossil-free, community owned energy

- Corporate accountability
  Making companies accountable for harm they cause anywhere in the world
- Corporate capture
  When EU and international policy-making is overly influenced by business and interest groups
- Deregulation
  The weakening of vital protections to please big business
- Trade
  EU trade and investment policy should start to put people before profit

- Banking regulation
  Getting banks to take responsibility for social and environmental risks
- Fossil Free Europe
  Delivering a just transition to a 100% renewable, no nuclear, super energy-efficient, zero-fossil-fuel Europe by 2030
- Sustainable EU funds
  EU Structural and Cohesion funds, principally for central and eastern Europe

- Agriculture
  Food and farming in Europe and its global impacts
- GMOs
  Genetically modified crops and organisms
- Nature
  Standing up for our right to nature
- Trade
  EU trade and investment policy should start to put people before profit

- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Materials and waste
  Rethinking plastic, and reducing, reusing and recycling resources
- Resource justice
  Europe’s consumption of land, materials, water and carbon

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