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Juncker’s CETA support undermines pledges on climate and citizens’ rights

14 September 2016

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker today reaffirmed his commitment to CETA – the EU-Canada trade deal – calling it as "the best and most progressive agreement that we have ever entered into."

6 July 2016

New EU finance chief must stop slash and burn approach

Reacting to European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis' hearing this morning in the European Parliament regarding his assuming the portfolio for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union, Friends of the Earth Europe accountable finance campaigner Anne van Schaik said:

1 February 2016

European investors need greater regulation

Europe needs to toughen-up its regulations for how investors deal with environmental and social risks, according to Friends of the Earth Europe and Global Witness.

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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
- Renewable energy
  Clean alternatives to fossil fuels
- Shale gas
  Unconventional oil and gas, and the ‘fracking’ process
- Sustainable EU funds
  EU Structural and Cohesion funds, principally for central and eastern Europe
- Tar sands
  Unconventional oil, also known as oil sands
- The Big Ask
  European climate campaign for annual emissions cuts

- Conflicts of interest
  Differing and competing interests in the EU institutions
- 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
- EU-US trade deal
  What’s at stake in negotiations for a transatlantic trade agreement
- Greenwashing
  Company advertising at odds with real environmental impacts
- Lobby transparency
  Lobby registration, ethical practice, and access to documents

- Banking regulation
  Getting banks to take responsibility for social and environmental risks
- Food speculation
  Betting on foodstuffs, and how to regulate it
- 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
- EU-US trade deal
  What’s at stake in negotiations for a transatlantic trade agreement
- Food speculation
  Betting on foodstuffs, and how to regulate it
- 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

- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Land
  Measuring Europe’s land footprint and tackling the drivers of land grabbing
- Materials and waste
  Reducing, reusing and recycling resources
- Nature
  Standing up for our right to nature
- Resource use
  Europe’s consumption of land, materials, water and carbon
- Shale gas
  Unconventional oil and gas, and the ‘fracking’ process
- Tar sands
  Unconventional oil, also known as oil sands
- Water use
  Measuring Europe’s water footprint

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Juncker’s CETA support undermines pledges on climate and citizens’ rights

New EU finance chief must stop slash and burn approach

European investors need greater regulation