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.

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CLIMATE

Climate summit fails to agree tough action to slash emissions

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news release

17th Dec 2018

The talks ended with weak action and gaping holes in the rule book for meeting climate targets

Largest earthquake in Lancashire since fracking started

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news release

11th Dec 2018

A 1.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Blackpool, Lancashire today

Let’s make 2019 the year we save the planet: Friends of the Earth’s New Year’s resolutions for the climate

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news release

10th Dec 2018

Friends of the Earth has pulled together a list of the lifestyle changes that will have the biggest positive impact on the planet; in terms of saving energy and cutting emissions.

Send the Government a frack-free Christmas card!

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8th Dec 2018

In the two weeks that Cuadrilla tried fracking in Lancashire, 36 small earthquakes occurred around the fracking site in Lancashire.

Climate agreements after Paris: countries, payments, and the climate emergency

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news release

6th Dec 2018

A report reviewing climate commitments under the Paris Agreement by country has been released during the UN climate conference in Poland. “After Paris: inequality, fair shares, and the climate emergency” shows that the only way to succeed in the face …

Wales commits to a fossil-free future for sake of the planet

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news release

5th Dec 2018

Friends of the Earth now calling for the rest of the UK to step up and end all fossil fuel projects

How to be more engaging when communicating around climate change

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3rd Dec 2018

Over the last three decades, reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have made it increasingly clear that wide-scale societal and political changes are required to ensure a sustainable, resilient future.

Stockport Hydro’s Environmental Challenge Fund

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2nd Dec 2018

The Fund now stands at £3,800 for up to 10 projects. Apply now if you have a environmental, cooperative or community project within the Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council boundary.

Fossil Banks – No Thanks

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Climate change, long considered an urgent but future threat, is now with us, and already impacting the lives of millions of people around the world. It’s being driven in large part by the continued exploration and burning of coal, oil and gas. …

Friends of the Earth challenge Lancashire fracking in High Court

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news release

29th Nov 2018

Friends of the Earth is suing the Environment Agency for failing to take the best course of action to protect Lancashire’s environment from fracking.

UK summers could be over 5C warmer by 2070

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news release

27th Nov 2018

End support for fracking, airport expansion and road-building, government urged

Saddleworth Moor named as one of the frontlines of climate chaos in England

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news release

26th Nov 2018

Friends of the Earth has revealed the frontlines of climate change in England today (26 November) to mark the 10th anniversary of the Climate Change Act and the urgent action still needed to prevent runaway climate change. Communities around Saddleworth …

Druridge Bay: government decision to reject mine overturned

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news release

23rd Nov 2018

A High Court judge has upheld the legal challenge from operators Banks Mining to the government’s decision to refuse permission for the opencast coal mine in Northumberland.

Climate Change Act turns 10: Friends of the Earth’s tips for the first-time environmental activist

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news release

19th Nov 2018

The public are being urged to mark the 10th anniversary of the Climate Change Act by joining the battle for a cleaner, safer future.

Switch to Ecotricity and they will donate £50 to Friends of the Earth

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18th Nov 2018

Here in the UK, electricity generation is responsible for a quarter of our carbon emissions – making it a huge contributor. That means we urgently need to change the way we power our country and our homes.

Biofuels -Friends of the Earth Booklet Cover

Scrap subsidies for burning wood for power – Please write to your MP (BiofuelWatch)

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We urgently need your help to call on the government to Scrap Subsidies for Burning Wood Biomass and to redirect these subsidies to clean renewables.

Reform countryside to tackle climate change, urges government advisor – Friends of the Earth reaction

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news release

15th Nov 2018

“This is a wake-up call for a complacent government that we must completely transform the way we use land, to avoid climate breakdown and make space for nature.”

Risky business: Local government pension funds and the climate crisis

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10th Nov 2018

How Local Government Pension Funds are failing to protect themselves from the financial risks of climate change.

Local Government Pension Funds failing to protect themselves from financial risk of climate – Friends of the Earth and Platform London report reveals.

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news release

9th Nov 2018

Local Government Pension Funds failing to protect themselves from financial risk of climate – Friends of the Earth and Platform London report reveals. The largest UK Local Government Pension Funds (LGPFs) are failing to take adequate action to reduce the …

Tell your MP to stop the government’s daylight robbery (10:10)

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5th Nov 2018

We know we urgently need to ramp up climate action. But over the last few years the government has been removing support for renewables.

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