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

Shell faces historic legal action for its failure to act on climate change

4 April 2018

Friends of the Earth Netherlands announced today that they will take Shell to court if it does not act on demands to stop its destruction of the climate.

The Friends of the Earth Netherlands case is the first climate lawsuit demanding a fossil fuel company acts on climate change, rather than seeking compensation. This ground-breaking case, if successful, would significantly limit Shell's investments in oil and gas globally by forcing them to comply with climate targets.

Netherlands

19 March 2018

Why the LNG terminal on Krk is unacceptable and unprofitable

The Croatian government wants to build a fossil gas terminal on the island of Krk, the most populous island in the Adriatic Sea. This project is unnecessary, unwanted and damages climate and the environment, argues Marija Mileta from Zelena akcija/Friends of the Earth Croatia.

Croatia

15 March 2018

Controversial Turkish-Azerbaijani gas pipeline gets major EU loan

Prague, Brussels, Rome, London – Today the board of directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB) green-lighted a EUR 93 million loan to the Trans Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), the Turkish section of the Southern Gas Corridor, a month after handing out the largest ever fossil fuels loan to the western section of the same project.

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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.

Reports & publications

17 Apr 2018

The way forward for Europe's energy transformation

7 Nov 2017

Can the climate afford Europe’s gas addiction?

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- Agrofuels
  Plant-based fuels from agriculture. Also known as biofuels
- Climate justice
  Genuine, just solutions to climate change
- Energy savings
  Energy efficiency and its benefits
- 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
  Clean alternatives to fossil fuels

- 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
  What’s at stake in negotiations for EU-US and EU-Canada trade agreements

- 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
- Agrofuels
  Plant-based fuels from agriculture. Also known as biofuels
- GMOs
  Genetically modified crops and organisms
- Land
  Measuring Europe’s land footprint and tackling the drivers of land grabbing
- Nature
  Standing up for our right to nature
- Trade
  What’s at stake in negotiations for EU-US and EU-Canada trade agreements

- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Land
  Measuring Europe’s land footprint and tackling the drivers of land grabbing
- 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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