ALTER-EU report: A captive Commission - the role of the financial industry in shaping EU regulation

05 November 2009

Testimonies of Contamination

15 October 2009

A critique of the European Food Safety Authority’s opinion on genetically modified maize MON810

29 July 2009

The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) opinion on the environmental and human effects of the cultivation of the genetically modified (GM) maize variety MON810 is woefully inadequate and ignores the social consequences of production.

The Commission’s lobby register one year on: success or failure?

04 June 2009

This report is part of our ongoing research into the European Commission lobby register. It builds on ALTER EU's preliminary analysis of the European Commission lobbyists register, which we published in January 2009. We concluded our research for this report on 25 May 2009.

Food Security and Climate Change: The Answer is Biodiversity

19 December 2008

Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture worldwide. Food security in many countries is under threat from unpredictable changes in rainfall and more frequent extreme weather. Farmers in poorer countries with harsh climate conditions will likely be most affected. A review of recent scientific literature underlines that the most effective strategy to adapt agriculture to climate change is to increase biodiversity. This report outlines the role biodiversity can play as a solution to climate change and decreasing food security.

MEPs must exercise their democratic power and reject the EU’s ‘effort sharing’ law

16 December 2008

Members of the European Parliament voting tomorrow (Wednesday 17 December) in Strasbourg to adopt the EU climate package should reject the current flawed compromise for the effort sharing law.

Analysis of the EU standard on car emissions

01 December 2008

The EU’s first standard on CO2 emissions from passenger cars has beed devised to never reach its stated objective of an average 130 grams CO2 per kilometre from new cars.