Full Coverage: Europe

05/13/2008 More than 350,000 children living in poor countries could be saved each year using the money lost as corporations engage in illegal trade-related tax evasion, says a new report from an anti-poverty coalition.

05/13/2008 British shoppers have been warned that some products on sale may contain palm oil grown in Colombia after paramilitaries murdered or forced poor people off their land amid mounting demand to use the fruit of palm oil trees.

05/13/2008 The British government has been actively supporting plans by a British company to build an open-cast mine in Bangladesh that would destroy the homes of more than 40,000 people and threaten the water supplies of a further 100,000.

05/12/2008 At the third annual National Digital Inclusion Conference held in London last week, stakeholders from government, industry and voluntary sectors acknowledged the need to make digital technologies an equaliser rather than a divider through radical interventions that reach excluded citizens.

05/11/2008 I strained and strained to enjoy In Spitting Distance. I felt sympathy with every ounce of my mind for Taher Najib's tale of a Palestinian Israeli who tries to fly from Paris to his contested homeland on 11 September 2002.

05/10/2008 The French Institute's annual celebration of cultural diversity, Mosaïques, is back, with another lively mix of world cinema, literature and music. This year’s festival is timed to overlap with the UNESCO World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.

05/08/2008 Increasing use of information communication technology by doctors in European countries has brought about massive improvement in healthcare services in the region. It is now being suggested that areas such as tele-monitoring, electronic prescriptions and cross-border e-health services need further development.

05/08/2008 EU-maiden yhteistyö Yhdysvaltain salaisen kidnappaus- ja kidutus -ohjelman kanssa on vahingoittanut unionin pyrkimyksiä edistää ihmisoikeuksia maailmassa.

05/06/2008 Coca-Cola is looking to make huge profits as one of the three primary sponsors of the Olympic Torch Relay despite flagrant human rights abuses perpetrated by China, writes grassroots activist Amit Srivastava.

05/06/2008 Scientists report that the rising temperature of Lake Baikal, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming.
From: Terra Daily

05/06/2008 Maan Ystävien Polttava kysymys -kampanjan aktivoimina yli 10 000 suomalaista on pyytänyt kansanedustajaansa tukemaan ilmastolakia, joka velvoittaisi vähentämään ilmastoa lämmittäviä päästöjä viidellä prosentilla vuosittain.

05/06/2008 Today's Millennium Development Goals summit in London is in danger of becoming an empty gesture for the world’s poor and a public relations stunt for big companies, campaigners warned today as they launched an alternative action plan and challenged UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to support it.
+ Brown slated on ‘cynical’ poverty event

05/05/2008 Public bicycle rental programs are quickly springing up across Europe; cities including Washington, DC, Beijing, Moscow, and Tel Aviv may also soon be launching similar services.

05/03/2008 Queen and Country by Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is on tour, starting at the Royal Festival Hall.

05/02/2008 The hit of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Black Watch, comes to London for the first time, following a sell-out tour of Scotland, the US and Australasia.

05/02/2008 Future technology designed to cut the carbon cost of air travel will be displayed to the public for the first time in a new exhibition that opens at the Science Museum in London on 15 May.

05/02/2008 The Energy Bill being debated by parliament needs to be amended to guarantee a premium payment - known as 'feed-in tariffs' - for all the green energy generated by householders, businesses and local communities, says Friends of the Earth.

05/02/2008 Many British food and drinks processing companies have much to do before they can claim to be operating sustainably in terms of water consumption, concludes a new report.
From Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility

05/02/2008 Root for the hottest environmental entrepreneurs as they try to get their carbon-cutting innovations past a panel of climate change and business experts. Hear the straight-talking feedback and cast your vote for the best idea.

05/02/2008 Euroopan unioni on biopolttoaineiden kestävyyskriteereillään ottamassa ensimmäisen askeleen kohti biomassan vastuullisen tuotannon edellyttämistä, kiittelee WWF Suomi. Jos kriteerit hyväksytään, EU:sta tulee ensimmäinen alue, jossa biopolttoaineiden tuotannon ympäristö- ja sosiaalista vastuuta vaaditaan laissa.