EU must refuse to authorise new GM maize varieties for cultivation
The European Commission is currently considering the authorisation of two different varieties of GM maize. Consumers should express their concerns about the documented environmental risks of the so-called Bt maize, as well as their desire for GMO-free food, to the Commission. Take this opportunity to send your message to the Commission.
Delegations and scientists from about 140 nations meeting this week in Valencia, Spain. This week's meeting will synthesize the 3 reports issued this year by the IPCC and will be the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). No new scientific information is expected in this final report.
L'Osservatorio della Val Susa, presieduto dall'architetto Mario Virano, è sede di confronto tecnico e discussione collegiale tra i diversi soggetti interessati dalla tratta.
In the framework of the conference "World Energy Solutions : Switch to green power", a film commissioned by the Greens/EFA on the investments of the electric company Enel in Slovakia was first shown.The film entitled "THE GHOSTS OF SOVIET NUCLEAR - The case of Mochovce" shows how unsafe, uneconomica...
On the eve of the World Energy Congress, the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament and the Italian Greens (Federazione dei Verdi) will organise - with the participation of Legambiente, WWF Italy and Greenpeace Italy - an alternative conference in Rome on 9-10 November 2007 in order to present the proposals of European environmentalists.
Conclusions of the 20th EU-Russia Summit in Mafra on 26 October 2007
The Greens/EFA Group reiterates its call for the stepping-up of the EU-Russia human rights consultations so as to make them more effective, result-oriented and open to NGOs and with the full involvement of the European Parliament at all levels; Notes with concern Russian authorities' reluctance to engage in a genuine dialogue with the EP …
Russia and the EU in the context of multilaterial foreign policy
Participants: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Nadezhda Arbatova (Institute for International Economy and International Relations), Andrey Ryabov, Editor in Chief of journal "World economy and International Relations", Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of Yabloko.Cohn-Bendit. It was an old idea to come here with the Gre...
Exchange of views with representatives from different NGOs on climate change, nuclear power plants, nuclear waste and Sochi 2014 Olympics
Participants: Rebecca Harms (Vice President of Greens in the EP), Svyatoslav Zabelin (International Social Ecological Union), Vladimir Slivyak (Group Ecodefense), Yevgeny Shvarts (WWF Russia), Alexander Nikitin (Bellona Russia and Green Russia), Roman Yushkov (Leader of the Group Green Ecumeen, Perm...
