Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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

YEARS

2022

CAMPAIGNS

CLIMATE

Tell your MP that you back the frequent flyer levy (Possible)

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Flying is a serious climate problem, and there’s no technological solution that can scale up fast enough. The fairest and most popular way to cut emissions from air travel is to bring in a new way of taxing flights where the more …

Tell the government: No new coal, oil or gas projects (Friends of the Earth)

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Fossil fuel companies are planning to launch over 30 new coal, oil and gas extraction projects in the UK. During a climate crisis, they’d add even more fuel to the fire. The science is clear: to avoid climate breakdown, there …

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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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!

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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)

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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...

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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)

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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.