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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

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. …

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

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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.

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

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

Tell your MP to reject fast-tracking fracking

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On Wednesday, MPs will debate the government’s plans to fast-track fracking – and we need your help.

Ask your MP to be a Zero Hero

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Ten years ago, MPs came together to pass a ground-breaking law: the Climate Change Act. The law was a world first and showed that the UK was serious about tackling climate change.

Don't let the government fast-track fracking

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The government is consulting on whether exploratory drilling for gas should be categorised as ‘permitted development’.

To: Museum of Science & Industry Shell Out! No place for big oil in public science

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Museum of Science & Industry: drop your sponsorship deal with Shell for the upcoming exhibition ‘Electricity: the spark of life’

Ask your council leaders to STOP fast-tracked fracking (CPRE)

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Recent government proposals to fast-track fracking are getting closer to reality. The government wants to make it possible to drill test wells for non-hydraulic fracking without needing to apply for planning permission, using planning tools intended to approve low-impact developments …

Please object to Drax’s climate-choking plans to burn gas (Biofuelwatch)

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Drax power station has applied to the Planning Inspectorate for permission to replace its two remaining coal-fired units with much larger ones burning fossil (natural) gas. Drax is already the biggest biomass burning plant in the world and the largest single emitter of CO2 in the U.K.

Feeling the heat? Let's tackle climate change

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The effects of climate change are being felt everywhere. A deadly heatwave is sweeping the globe, wildfires have broken out in the Arctic Circle, and record-breaking temperatures have been recorded from Lapland to the Sahara. In the UK we’ve had the …

Fossil Banks - No Thanks

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

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

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

Tell your MP to reject fast-tracking fracking

Ask your MP to be a Zero Hero

Don't let the government fast-track fracking

To: Museum of Science & Industry Shell Out! No place for big oil in public science

Ask your council leaders to STOP fast-tracked fracking (CPRE)

Please object to Drax’s climate-choking plans to burn gas (Biofuelwatch)

Feeling the heat? Let's tackle climate change

Ask the Queen to use low carbon heating from London’s lost rivers (10:10 Climate Action)

Tell Carnival to stop its cruise ships destroying the Arctic

Ask your councillors to oppose fast-tracking fracking

Stop the government forcing fracking on communities

Let’s triple our tree planting targets

Greater Manchester Pension Fund member? Please send this crucial message to them

Save Lancashire from fracking

Bring Shell to justice

Sign the petition: British homes, powered by sunshine. (10:10)

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