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.

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

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.

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.”

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 …

Chancellor goes cold on ‘latte levy’

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news release

29th Oct 2018

Friends of the Earth responds to the Chancellor’s decision not to impose a latte levy in this year’s Budget.

Pension protestors claim success (Fossil Free Greater Manchester press release)

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news release

24th Oct 2018

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 …

Fracking protesters’ sentencing was unlawful says Friends of the Earth as sentences over-turned

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news release

17th Oct 2018

The Frack Free Three have had their sentences reduced to conditional discharges today in their appeal hearing at the Court of Appeal.

12 years to limit climate catastrophe: UK starts fracking

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news release

15th Oct 2018

The government’s backing of fracking is ‘morally bankrupt’ says Friends of the Earth as fracking starts in Lancashire today.

Residents demonstrate for GM pension fund to stop funding climate change

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news release

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 …

Fracking to begin in Lancashire after injunction turned down

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news release

12th Oct 2018

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.

Climate chaos still avoidable if governments act immediately

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news release

8th Oct 2018

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 …

Interim injunction halts fracking in Lancashire on safety grounds

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news release

5th Oct 2018

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.

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