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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As fracking resumes, Friends of the Earth calls for ban
Cuadrilla has restarted its fracking activity in Lancashire today despite the escalating climate crisis and the fact that drilling operations have led to earthquakes. Continue reading
15th Aug 2019
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UN conference brings climate scrutiny to UK
Claire Perry MP has announced today that Glasgow will host the UN international climate conference – Conference of the Parties (COP26) – in late 2020, assuming that the UK is confirmed as host country. Continue reading
9th Aug 2019
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Friends of the Earth issues warning on land abuse following IPCC report on climate change
As the IPCC releases a special report (8th August 2019) on land usage and climate change, Friends of the Earth is calling for land to be put to better use in the fight against climate breakdown. The environmental group is calling for measures including doubling tree cover and moving away from intensive farming methods that devour land and are responsible for huge amounts of climate-wrecking emissions. Continue reading
8th Aug 2019
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July 2019 warmest month on record: Friends of the Earth calls on politicians to take action on further climate breakdown
“Extreme heat like this costs lives, and we’re at risk of what is currently defined as extreme becoming the new normal” Continue reading
5th Aug 2019
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Extreme heat a stark warning to Boris Johnson, says Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is urging Boris Johnson to put responding to the climate emergency at the heart of his new government after the UK’s maximum temperature record for July was broken, and the Met Office warned that the all-time UK record may be recorded later today. Continue reading
25th Jul 2019
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PM Johnson, deal with the climate emergency
“Boris Johnson said he’d ‘lie down in front of the bulldozers’ to prevent a third runway at Heathrow. Now he has the power to cancel this polluting project along with other climate disasters like fracking. And he must.” Continue reading
23rd Jul 2019
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Court of Appeal to hear application for further challenge to climate-wrecking Heathrow expansion
“This case is about saving the planet from catastrophic climate change. We need to leave the world in a better state for our children and their children, not a worse one.” Continue reading
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Campaigners call on GM Pension Fund to divest from climate-wrecking fossil fuel investments (Fossil Free Greater Manchester)
Today (Friday 19th July) a noisy protest outside the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) offices called for the Pension Fund to join the growing global movement to respond to the climate emergency by divesting from climate-wrecking fossil fuels within 2 years Continue reading
19th Jul 2019
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Campaigners call on GM Pension Fund to help tackle the climate crisis (Fossil Free Greater Manchester)
Campaigners will demand that Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) join the growing movement to tackle climate change when they gather at the Fund’s offices at 12.30 on 19 July Continue reading
17th Jul 2019
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Reaction to Michael Gove’s speech on reversing nature decline and fighting climate breakdown
Alongside throwing out emissions disasters like airport expansion and fracking it’s crucial that the next government supports plans to double tree cover in the UK Continue reading
16th Jul 2019
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Next PM has 18 months to act on climate crisis – reaction
UK credibility on climate change rests on government action over next 18 months, the Committee on Climate Change [CCC] says today . Continue reading
10th Jul 2019
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Friends of the Earth reacts to new plans for fracking in Lancashire
Fossil fuel company Aurora today (Wednesday 10 July) submitted plans to drill and frack two wells at a site in Great Altcar, Lancashire. Continue reading
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Friends of the Earth commences High Court action against Cuadrilla over ‘unlawful’ anti-protest injunction
“Injunctions such as that granted to Cuadrilla, raise very significant human rights issues and are a sinister attempt to use the law to stop peaceful protest against the fracking industry.” Continue reading
25th Jun 2019
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Government sets net zero carbon target by 2050
Responding to Theresa May’s announcement that the UK will today table legislation to set a target for net zero carbon emission by 2050, Friends of the Earth chief executive Craig Bennett said: Continue reading
11th Jun 2019
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Druridge Bay: UK power stations already have enough coal, new figures reveal
No need for Northumberland opencast coal mine, says Friends of the Earth Communities Secretary James Brokenshire is being urged to reject planning permission for an opencast coal mine in Northumberland after Friends of the Earth revealed that UK power stations … Continue reading
14th May 2019
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Public support for fracking at all time low
Time to pull the plug on this destructive, unnecessary and unwanted industry Continue reading
9th May 2019
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Friends of the Earth reacts to Environment Agency’s strategy to tackle flooding and coastal change
Focus must first and foremost be on slashing emissions so that we can avoid the worst consequences of climate chaos in the first place Continue reading
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There’s no speed cameras on the road to net zero, let’s go as fast as possible – response to Committee on Climate Change
A fifty-fifty chance of exceeding 1.5 degrees is “worse odds than Russian roulette” and we must reach net zero emissions faster to avoid the worst effects of climate chaos says Friends of the Earth in response to advice from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) on the UK’s emissions targets published today (Thursday 2 May). Continue reading
2nd May 2019
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Local elections 2019…. is the environment winning? #LE2019
With one day of campaigning left before the local elections in Greater Manchester on Thursday 2nd May, Manchester Friends of the Earth welcomes the cross-party support from candidates for urgent action on key environmental issues facing us locally, nationally and worldwide. Continue reading
1st May 2019
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Heathrow court judgement “wrong” and “out of step with the world”
Today’s High Court decision to dismiss Friends of the Earth’s climate case against a third runway at Heathrow airport is legally and morally wrong and “out of step with the world” says the green group as it considers the possibility of appeal. Continue reading
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