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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.

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At the start of ‘One Planet Summit’ today, Paris Agreement still heading for 3 degrees warming

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news release

Two years after the Paris Agreement, and with the impacts of climate change devastating lives, the world’s countries’ inadequate pledges mean we are on track to deliver a catastrophic 3 degrees of warming, or more. The Paris Agreement was meant …

Ask the Energy Secretary to stop fracking

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There’s still time to stop fracking going ahead at Preston New Road in Lancashire and Kirby Misperton in Yorkshire.

Sign our urgent letter to bring back onshore wind (10:10)

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Climate minister Claire Perry just told parliament that the government might throw onshore wind a lifeline. Shut off from government support, onshore wind has come to a halt across the UK. Now there could be a chance to bring it …

Keep Cuadrilla out of Balcombe

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Fracking company Cuadrilla’s application to test the oil flow at their site in Balcombe, West Sussex is out for public consultation. The villagers want the council to know that many people oppose the plans.

Industrial strategy: bold measures needed to reap clean growth benefits

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Fossil fuel support undermines government efforts for low-carbon future

Excess winter deaths: Action urged on heat-leaking homes

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Government must make domestic energy efficiency a national spending priority.

Britain calls for global coal phase-out at climate talks; yet greenlights fracking and opencast coalmining

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Britain calls for global coal phase-out at the climate talks happening in Bonn today, yet greenlights fracking in Yorkshire and opencast coalmining in Northumberland. Isn’t this just hypocritical?

Tell Greater Manchester Pension Fund that it's (well past) time to start divesting !

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The Greater Manchester Pension Fund is consulting on its Investment Strategy Statement. The closing date for responses is Sunday 19 November. There’s more detail below, but our key message is that engagement with fossil fuel companies doesn’t work, and that …

Fuelling the Fire: Email your Councillor

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Local councils across the UK are investing £16 billion in the fossil fuel industry. That’s £16 billion of public money #fuellingthefire of the climate crisis, and propping up the fossil fuel companies responsible.

Can the climate afford Europe’s gas addiction?

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Friends of the Earth Europe commissioned a team of climate change scientists to determine how much gas Europe can afford to use in its future energy mix.

Media Briefing: Can the climate afford Europe’s gas addiction? (Friends of the Earth Europe)

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New research from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research shows the incompatibility of EU climate action in line with its commitments under the Paris Agreement, and continued gas use. Friends of the Earth Europe commissioned a team of climate …

#ProtectOurFutures action in Manchester

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event report

On Saturday 14 October, people across the world stood together in an international day of action to protect our futures from fossil fuel projects.

News release: 5000 people call for GM Pension Fund to ditch fossil fuels

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A petition calling for Greater Manchester’s local authority pension fund (GMPF) to ditch dirty coal, oil and gas stocks will be handed in to the GMPF’s Annual General Meeting. Since the petition launch, over 5000 people have expressed their dismay …

Can you help drive forward Manchester's work on climate change?

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Are you passionate about Manchester becoming a leading city for action on climate change? Can you help to engage and inspire new audiences to get involved? Do you have experience of bringing about positive change (not necessarily on climate change)?

Save Ryedale's bats #DontFrackOurBats

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Protected bat species have been identified right next to a fracking site in Ryedale, Yorkshire. Ecologists have recommended that work must not go ahead at the site until a full investigation has been carried out. But fracking company Third Energy plans …

Climate change is a threat to national security

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Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Harvey and deadly monsoons in South East Asia – politicians need to wake up and treat climate change like a threat to national security. Just imagine, for a moment, that the US and UK governments received an …

Ask Greg Clark to refuse fracking permission in Lancashire

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It’s happened. The fracking company Cuadrilla has started drilling in Lancashire.

Friends of the Earth and community campaigners are calling on Greg Clark MP, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, not to give final consent to allow fracking to go ahead in Lancashire, as drilling is reported at Preston New Road today.

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Greg Clark MP still has to give final consent before the controversial hydraulic fracturing process can begin. With support for fracking at an all-time low, and local opposition increasing, Friends of the Earth has said it’s not too late for …

National support for fracking at lowest level yet

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UK support for fracking is at its lowest recorded level according to the latest BEIS Energy and Climate Change Public Attitude Tracker reported released today (3 August). Support for fracking has decreased over the last year, from 21% to just …

Switch to Ecotricity with Friends of the Earth

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Ecotricity’s offer to you Switch now and we’ll receive donations of up to £50 every year that you remain a customer. Boiling the kettle will have never felt so good!

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