Este evento ya pasó. Puedes ver la grabación en Facebook y en Youtube Fecha: 29/10/2020 Hora: 18:00 – 19:30 ¿Sabías que España es líder en el uso de antibióticos en animales? ¿Y que cada vez hay menos granjas pero producimos más cerdos sobre todo para exportación? Las grandes corporaciones se han apropiado de nuestra agricultura, […]
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Together with Friends of the Earth Europe, we published a new report, The Urgent Case to Stop Factory Farms in Europe.
This week we launch the Spanish translation, and together with local communities and unions, we will debate about how to move forward to ban factory farms.
October 21, 2020 Over 100 civil society organizations stand behind UN Special Rapporteur Léo Heller, denounce private water industry interference We, the undersigned, express our strong support for the report on “The Privatisation of Water and Sanitation Services” of the United Nations (U.N.) Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, […]
Today, on 14 October, the EU Commission will publish its methane strategy, outlining the next steps the EU should take to tackle methane, a climate-polluting greenhouse gas that is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide CO2 over a 20-year period. Food & Water Action Europe has taken a close look at leaked versions of […]
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The Beyond Gas Conference Goes Online!
Food & Water Action Europe is pleased to invite you to the first online edition of the Beyond Gas Conference, co-organised with Friends of the Earth Europe and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation ! The online event will take place on Monday 19 October from 13h30 to 18h30 CEST (7h30-12h30 EDT). It is open to gas activists […]
Topics of climate change, fossil fuels and water resources are highly connected and they influence each other – extreme weather events, draughts and floods, biodiversity, impacts of the coal and gas industry are just some examples of cross-cutting issues. How can we link the impacts of fossil fuels and climate crisis on underground water resources?
Not surprisingly, arguments by the fossil gas lobby come in shiny green wrappings to give one of the dirtiest industries around a green veneer.
On July 28, 2010 the United Nations General Assembly voted to enshrine the human rights to water and sanitation in international law. At Food & Water Action Europe we will celebrate it with friends and allies in a series of webinars to analyze the experience after these 10 years.
Thanks to a strong campaign led by Food & Water Action Europe and a number of other European NGOs, the EU Commission will now revise a law which sets the rules for selecting EU priority infrastructure, the “Trans-European Networks for Energy” (TEN-E) regulation. So far, the gas industry (more precisely, a body called “ENTSO-G) has […]
Frackers are building a transatlantic gas network and using Congress to push policies and subsidies that will lock Europe and the U.S. into a huge, unneeded expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. It’s the last thing we need.