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EIB must stop funding fossil fuels - 70 civil society groups

14 June 2019

Ahead of a meeting of the EU bank’s Governors in Luxembourg, 70 civil society organisations, think tanks and academics across Europe have called for a fossil-free European Investment Bank (EIB) in a joint statement released today.

As EU Finance Ministers gather in Luxembourg as Governors of the EIB to discuss this year’s priorities for the bank of the European Union.

28 May 2019

Ikebiri reach settlement with company, Niger Delta still awaits justice

In 2017 the Nigerian community of Ikebiri launched a court case against the Italian oil company ENI demanding clean-up of and compensation for an oil spill caused in 2010 by the failure of ENI’s pipeline. Friends of the Earth Europe and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA) have been supporting the community in this unprecedented court case which was started in Italy in January 2018.

5 April 2019

See you in court, Shell!

Friends of the Earth has today delivered a court summons to Shell at its headquarters in the Hague, to legally compel the company to cease its destruction of the climate, in a historic climate litigation on behalf of more than 30,000 people from 70 countries.

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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

25 Sep 2018

Manifesto for a Sustainable Europe for its Citizens

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

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  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

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  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Materials and waste
  Rethinking plastic, and reducing, reusing and recycling resources
- Resource justice
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