Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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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. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

YEARS

2021

CAMPAIGNS

CLIMATE

Ask the government to keep its promise to stop funding dirty projects overseas

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take action

4th Feb 2021

Last year the UK government promised to stop funding polluting oil and gas projects abroad. It was a ground-breaking victory, thanks to action from people like you

Tell the UK government to scrap plans for Heathrow expansion

climate

take action

20th Dec 2020

Our historic legal victory against the government’s decision to support expansion at Heathrow airport has been overturned by the Supreme Court, allowing this climate-wrecking project to proceed to the next stage.

Ask the UK government to take decisive climate action

climate

take action

22nd Nov 2020

The clock is ticking on our chance to stop climate breakdown. Climate breakdown is already intensifying hurricanes, fires and droughts around the world, while causing increased flooding and heatwaves in the UK.

To: Robert Jenrick – Stop the Cumbria Coal Mine! (Coal Action Network)

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take action

4th Oct 2020

At a time when we need to rapidly de-escalate from fossil fuels, Cumbria County Council is set to approve a new coal mine which would last until 2049 – well beyond 2030 when most of our emissions reductions must be underway in order to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.

Have your say on Manchester’s Local Plan

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29th Apr 2020

Manchester City Council is preparing its Local Plan - a plan for how the city will develop over the next 15 to 20 years.

Act on climate change. Switch to renewable energy

climate

20th Mar 2020

Fed up of paying money to climate-wrecking companies? We've got three incredible offers for you if you switch to renewable energy...

Demand a stronger Environment Bill (Friends of the Earth)

climate

11th Mar 2020

From devastating flooding to toxic air pollution, we need to rapidly restore our degraded environment.

Stop funding climate-wrecking oil and gas overseas (Friends of the Earth)

climate

3rd Mar 2020

The UK government is pumping millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money into oil and gas projects around the world – fuelling the climate crisis.

Call on GM Pension Fund to ditch the coal (Fossil Free Greater Manchester)

climate

27th Feb 2020

We're calling on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to take a simple step: ditch the coal.

Have your say… on Andy Burnham’s election manifesto!

climate

25th Feb 2020

Ahead of the Greater Manchester Mayoral election on 7th May 2020, Andy Burnham the current Mayor, is asking people for ideas to be included in his Election Manifesto.

Don’t let your money fund gas drilling in Mozambique (Friends of the Earth)

climate

16th Feb 2020

The UK government is currently deciding whether to pump millions in taxpayers' money into a vast new gas drilling development in Mozambique.

The Future Homes Standard – – Demand zero carbon building standards…

climate

1st Feb 2020

The Government is currently consulting on changes to Part L (conservation of fuel and power) and Part F (ventilation) of the Building Regulations for new dwellings - with the snappier title of 'The Future Homes Standard'.

Ask your MP to get onshore wind into the new government’s first Budget in March (Possible)

climate

31st Jan 2020

Back in 2015, the government chose to block new onshore wind projects - despite wind being a source of the cheap, clean energy we need to tackle the climate crisis. Since then new onshore wind projects have ground to a halt - right when we need them most.

Siemens: Don’t help Adani fuel the climate crisis (#StopAdani)

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13th Jan 2020

Siemens has sided with Adani over the Australian community, ignoring pleas from thousands of Australians, including bushfire survivors, to protect lives, health and the climate by saying No to Adani.

Australia is burning. It’s time to ditch the dirtiest fossil fuel (Greenpeace)

climate

12th Jan 2020

Unprecedented megafires are raging across Australia: an area the size of Scotland has already been burned and people and animals, have lost their lives.

Pledge to fight the climate emergency and take back tomorrow (Friends of the Earth)

climate

2nd Jan 2020

Our planet has never faced a crisis quite like the climate emergency. Temperatures have fluctuated before. Our ancestors even survived an ice age. But this time humans caused the crisis. And crucially, it’s within our power to stop it.

Flight Free UK – pledge not to fly in the year of 2020…

climate

1st Jan 2020

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.

Let your MP know that the real work on climate starts now

climate

20th Dec 2019

Now that the election is over, we need as many MPs as possible to roll up their sleeves and start the urgent work of tackling the crisis.

Fossil fuel company adverts must display climate change warnings (Client Earth)

climate

8th Dec 2019

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.

Have your election candidates signed the pledge to fight climate breakdown?

climate

27th Nov 2019

See who’s standing for election in your area and whether they’ve taken the pledge

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