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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Climate summit fails to agree tough action to slash emissions
The talks ended with weak action and gaping holes in the rule book for meeting climate targets
17th Dec 2018
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Largest earthquake in Lancashire since fracking started
A 1.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Blackpool, Lancashire today
11th Dec 2018
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Let’s make 2019 the year we save the planet: Friends of the Earth’s New Year’s resolutions for the climate
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.
10th Dec 2018
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Climate agreements after Paris: countries, payments, and the climate emergency
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 … Continue reading
6th Dec 2018
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Wales commits to a fossil-free future for sake of the planet
Friends of the Earth now calling for the rest of the UK to step up and end all fossil fuel projects
5th Dec 2018
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Friends of the Earth challenge Lancashire fracking in High Court
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.
29th Nov 2018
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UK summers could be over 5C warmer by 2070
End support for fracking, airport expansion and road-building, government urged
27th Nov 2018
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Saddleworth Moor named as one of the frontlines of climate chaos in England
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 … Continue reading
26th Nov 2018
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Druridge Bay: government decision to reject mine overturned
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.
23rd Nov 2018
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Climate Change Act turns 10: Friends of the Earth’s tips for the first-time environmental activist
The public are being urged to mark the 10th anniversary of the Climate Change Act by joining the battle for a cleaner, safer future.
19th Nov 2018
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Reform countryside to tackle climate change, urges government advisor – Friends of the Earth reaction
“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.”
15th Nov 2018
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Local Government Pension Funds failing to protect themselves from financial risk of climate – Friends of the Earth and Platform London report reveals.
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 … Continue reading
9th Nov 2018
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Chancellor goes cold on ‘latte levy’
Friends of the Earth responds to the Chancellor’s decision not to impose a latte levy in this year’s Budget.
29th Oct 2018
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Pension protestors claim success (Fossil Free Greater Manchester press release)
A group of noisy pensioners and a large dinosaur greeted delegates who went to Droylsden in Greater Manchester for the AGM of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund. Passing drivers hooted their horns in support as protestors urged the fund to … Continue reading
24th Oct 2018
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Fracking protesters’ sentencing was unlawful says Friends of the Earth as sentences over-turned
The Frack Free Three have had their sentences reduced to conditional discharges today in their appeal hearing at the Court of Appeal.
17th Oct 2018
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12 years to limit climate catastrophe: UK starts fracking
The government’s backing of fracking is ‘morally bankrupt’ says Friends of the Earth as fracking starts in Lancashire today.
15th Oct 2018
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Residents demonstrate for GM pension fund to stop funding climate change
Local residents will demonstrate outside the Greater Manchester Pension Fund’s (GMPF) annual general meeting on Friday 19th October at 12.30. They will call for the Fund to stop investing in fossil fuel companies and will present remnants from the recent … Continue reading
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Fracking to begin in Lancashire after injunction turned down
Fracking can now go ahead at the Preston New Road site in Lancashire after an application for an injunction was turned down by the court today.
12th Oct 2018
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Climate chaos still avoidable if governments act immediately
Report says limiting temperature rise requires enormous and immediate transformation in human activity World governments are not on track to avoid global warming of more than 1.5°C a key UN paper will find; the amount of carbon we can emit … Continue reading
8th Oct 2018
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Interim injunction halts fracking in Lancashire on safety grounds
Within hours of the industry heralding the start of fracking in Lancashire, an interim High Court injunction means that fracking cannot yet begin due to safety concerns.
5th Oct 2018
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