POSTS ARCHIVE
Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category.
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Fossil fuel company adverts must display climate change warnings (Client Earth)
We’re in a climate emergency that fossil fuel companies helped create.
Right now BP is flooding the public with adverts about its clean energy. The truth is that more than 96% of BP’s annual spend is still on oil and gas. We think these ads are greenwashing. Continue reading
8th Dec 2019
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Have your election candidates signed the pledge to fight climate breakdown?
See who’s standing for election in your area and whether they’ve taken the pledge Continue reading
27th Nov 2019
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Call on your councillors to double tree cover
After centuries of clearing forests, woodlands now only cover 13% of the UK – less than half the European average. This has to change. Continue reading
25th Nov 2019
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Ask your election candidates to sign our climate pledge
Flooding. Fires. Famine. The climate emergency is real. And it’s already taking its toll. Continue reading
23rd Nov 2019
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Show your support in the buses consultation!
Add your voice to the Greater Manchester Bus Consultation. Continue reading
16th Nov 2019
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Join City of Trees and Friends of the Earth to plant 500 trees in Sunnybank Park – Sunday 24th November [NOW FULLY BOOKED].
Manchester Friends of the Earth are joining forces with City of Trees to plant 500 trees in Sunnybank Park during National Tree Week (23rd November – 1st December) Continue reading
15th Nov 2019
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Take action for insects (The Wildlife Trusts)
Insects are dying out up to 8 times faster than larger animals says a new report showing the devasting and serious decline in insect populations happening right now across Britain. Continue reading
14th Nov 2019
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Tell Party leaders to debate climate and nature on live TV
Time is running out to tackle the climate emergency. The new government will have to make climate action an absolute priority. So what would party leaders do for the environment if their party was in charge? Continue reading
12th Nov 2019
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To: Party leaders – Take part in a national televised climate and nature debate
Alongside school-strike organisers UKSCN, we are calling on the leaders of the UK’s political parties to agree to a televised climate and nature debate ahead of the general election on 12th December. Continue reading
5th Nov 2019
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Flight Free UK
Flight Free UK is a people-powered campaign which asks people to agree not to fly in the year of 2020 – knowing that 100,000 others have pledged to do the same. Continue reading
29th Oct 2019
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Please ask your MP to sign the Trees and climate change Early Day Motion (EDM 31)
Caroline Lucas and 5 other Members of Parliament have submitted an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to double UK tree cover to help fight the climate emergency. Continue reading
23rd Oct 2019
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Ask the UK Government to protect us from pesticide cocktails (Pesticide Action Network)
UK citizens and the natural environment are being exposed to potentially harmful mixtures of pesticides. These mixtures appear in our food, water and soil and can affect the health of both humans and wildlife. There is a growing body of evidence that pesticides can become more harmful when combined, a phenomenon known as the ‘cocktail effect’. Continue reading
21st Oct 2019
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Tell the UK government to take urgent climate action
Our leaders have let us down. But from school children going on strike, to the rise of clean, affordable community energy, millions of people across the world have recognised the climate emergency – and are doing something about it. Continue reading
14th Oct 2019
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Tell the UK government to double tree cover
Doubling our tree cover could remove 10% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions annually. That’s why we’re petitioning the UK government to make a lasting commitment to bring back our lost trees. Do you have a minute to add your name? Continue reading
28th Sep 2019
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To: Manchester City Council Prioritise People not Cars. Please Pedestrianise Deansgate
Call on the council to go the whole hog and close it to traffic* all year round and make it the living, breathing, vibrant street it wants to be! Continue reading
5th Sep 2019
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Join the Global Climate Strike (20th September 2019)
Young people have been leading the fight against the climate crisis – striking from school to demand the government takes urgent climate action. Now they’re calling on the adults to join them Continue reading
24th Aug 2019
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Demand the EU & UN sanction Brazil to halt increased deforestation of the Amazon (Petition)
The government of Brazil led by Bolsonaro favour the development of the Amazon rainforest over conservation, escalating deforestation. Deforestation threatens indigenous populations who live in the forest, loss of a precious and complex ecosystem and a vital carbon store that slows global warming.More details Continue reading
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Tell the Government not to weaken the public’s right to environmental information.
Earlier this year the Campaign for Freedom of Information revealed how the government’s supposed ‘world-leading law’ for a green Brexit would weaken the public’s right to environmental information. Continue reading
18th Aug 2019
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Time is running out. Save ancient woodlands from HS2 (Woodland Trust)
HS2 is set to destroy swathes of ancient woodland as the controversial rail route forces its way through our countryside. Damaging preparatory work is happening right now, even as rising costs and an upcoming government review calls the future of the project into question. Continue reading
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Get Pointless plastic out of football (Friends of the Earth)
Football is the biggest game in town. But as the most watched and wealthiest sports competition in the world, the Premier League also generates a lot of plastic waste. Continue reading
11th Aug 2019
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