Today, Europe's Environment Ministers voted on crucial EU laws addressing waste management and green claims.| EEB - The European Environmental Bureau
Over 100,000 tonnes of pharmaceutical products are consumed globally every year (24% in Europe). During their manufacture, use and disposal, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) as well as other chemical ingredients are released into the environment. A very substantial share of pharmaceutical production now tak ...| EEB - The European Environmental Bureau
This report reviews the empirical and theoretical literature to assess the validity of this hypothesis. The conclusion is both overwhelmingly clear and sobering: not only is there no empirical evidence supporting the existence of a decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressures on anywhere near the scale needed to deal with environmental breakdown, but also, and perhaps more importantly, such decoupling appears unlikely to happen in the future.| EEB - The European Environmental Bureau