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Friends of the Earth Europe folk in Brussels, representing people and planet, campaigning for sustainable and just societies and protection of the environment
Dec 8, 2022 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
Today, agri stakeholders & 🇪🇺 representatives are discussing the future of food & farming #AgriOutlook

But given the last attacks on green farming reforms, the @EU_Commission’s event might recommend sticking plasters rather than look at long-term solutions for #foodsecurity

A🧵 Image Agribusiness & right-wing political allies are using the war in Ukraine as a pretext to water down #EUFarm2Fork

They claim global #foodsecurity is under threat & we need to ↗️ food production. How? With more synthetic #pesticides & #fertilisers of course!

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Oct 23, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
âť— NEW REPORT âť—

EU companies are getting away with #HumanRights violations & environmental destruction around the world.

We need a tough EU law to hold companies legally accountable for their actions - here's why 👇

foeeurope.org/do-no-harm

#StopCorporateAbuse [1/] The people in the village of Goi in Nigeria are eating, breathing & drinking oil.

Companies like @Shell avoid responsibility even while they continue to pump - and spill - oil. [2/] Quote by Nigerian resident 'What we eat here is pure poison'
Jun 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD! In the run-up to EU Sustainable Energy Week #EUSEW2020, we're applauding some awesome community energy projects across Europe

First on: Belgium’s @Ecopower_BE foeeurope.org/belgian-commun…

#FrontlinesofHope 2. @Ecopower_BE is a renewable energy cooperative from Belgium. It was founded in the 1980s, when a group of friends converted an old water mill to create renewable energy
Jun 5, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
On #WorldEnvironmentDay, let's focus on environmental racism.

The #BlackLivesMatter protests in the US – & the focus they've given to anti-racist struggles in Europe – are the outcome of a capitalist, racist system.

It's the same system that's trashing the planet. (1/10) First up, let’s unpack the idea of “race”.

As @ijeomaoluo puts it, “Race was not only created to justify a racially exploitative economic system, it was invented to lock people of colour into the bottom of it.”

#WorldEnvironmentDay (2/10)