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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As fracking resumes, Friends of the Earth calls for ban
Cuadrilla has restarted its fracking activity in Lancashire today despite the escalating climate crisis and the fact that drilling operations have led to earthquakes. Continue reading
15th Aug 2019
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UN conference brings climate scrutiny to UK
Claire Perry MP has announced today that Glasgow will host the UN international climate conference – Conference of the Parties (COP26) – in late 2020, assuming that the UK is confirmed as host country. Continue reading
9th Aug 2019
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Friends of the Earth issues warning on land abuse following IPCC report on climate change
As the IPCC releases a special report (8th August 2019) on land usage and climate change, Friends of the Earth is calling for land to be put to better use in the fight against climate breakdown. The environmental group is calling for measures including doubling tree cover and moving away from intensive farming methods that devour land and are responsible for huge amounts of climate-wrecking emissions. Continue reading
8th Aug 2019
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July 2019 warmest month on record: Friends of the Earth calls on politicians to take action on further climate breakdown
“Extreme heat like this costs lives, and we’re at risk of what is currently defined as extreme becoming the new normal” Continue reading
5th Aug 2019
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Tell the new government not to frack it up
The government has changed but the climate emergency remains. Continue reading
1st Aug 2019
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Declare a Climate Emergency in Bolton. (Change.org)
Leading researchers and scientists have now warned that we have less than 11 years to take action to tackle climate change, otherwise we face the gravest threats to our local and global environment – this includes increased flooding, droughts, extreme weather events and millions of displaced people. We must act urgently. Continue reading
30th Jul 2019
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End opencast coal for good Campaign (Coal Action Network)
Don’t give permission for any new opencast coal mines.
Refuse Banks Group’s permission to extract 3 million tonnes of coal at Druridge Bay, Northumberland and revoke planning permission at Bradley, Pont Valley, County Durham. Continue reading
29th Jul 2019
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Climate Emergency motions declared by 7 of the 10 Greater Manchester councils
On 22nd July, Rochdale became the latest local authority in Greater Manchester to declare a ‘Climate Emergency’. So far 7 of the 10 local councils have supported motions that formally declare a ‘climate emergency’. Trafford Council was the first out … Continue reading
No Fracking Northern Ireland (Friends of the Earth Ireland)
Fracking in Northern Ireland seems to be going under the radar since the ban in the Republic of Ireland – but the threat to the North is real and very close. There are 2 active planning applications for Fermanagh and Lough Neagh Basin. The public consultation ends on 31 July and WE SAY NO! Continue reading
28th Jul 2019
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Extreme heat a stark warning to Boris Johnson, says Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is urging Boris Johnson to put responding to the climate emergency at the heart of his new government after the UK’s maximum temperature record for July was broken, and the Met Office warned that the all-time UK record may be recorded later today. Continue reading
25th Jul 2019
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PM Johnson, deal with the climate emergency
“Boris Johnson said he’d ‘lie down in front of the bulldozers’ to prevent a third runway at Heathrow. Now he has the power to cancel this polluting project along with other climate disasters like fracking. And he must.” Continue reading
23rd Jul 2019
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Court of Appeal to hear application for further challenge to climate-wrecking Heathrow expansion
“This case is about saving the planet from catastrophic climate change. We need to leave the world in a better state for our children and their children, not a worse one.” Continue reading
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Campaigners call on GM Pension Fund to divest from climate-wrecking fossil fuel investments (Fossil Free Greater Manchester)
Today (Friday 19th July) a noisy protest outside the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) offices called for the Pension Fund to join the growing global movement to respond to the climate emergency by divesting from climate-wrecking fossil fuels within 2 years Continue reading
19th Jul 2019
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Campaigners call on GM Pension Fund to help tackle the climate crisis (Fossil Free Greater Manchester)
Campaigners will demand that Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) join the growing movement to tackle climate change when they gather at the Fund’s offices at 12.30 on 19 July Continue reading
17th Jul 2019
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Reaction to Michael Gove’s speech on reversing nature decline and fighting climate breakdown
Alongside throwing out emissions disasters like airport expansion and fracking it’s crucial that the next government supports plans to double tree cover in the UK Continue reading
16th Jul 2019
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Next PM has 18 months to act on climate crisis – reaction
UK credibility on climate change rests on government action over next 18 months, the Committee on Climate Change [CCC] says today . Continue reading
10th Jul 2019
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Friends of the Earth reacts to new plans for fracking in Lancashire
Fossil fuel company Aurora today (Wednesday 10 July) submitted plans to drill and frack two wells at a site in Great Altcar, Lancashire. Continue reading
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Tell GM Pension Fund Stop Funding Climate Destruction (19th July)
GMPF continue to invest more than £1 Billion in fossil fuel companies – including nearly £700 million in companies like Shell and BP which spend millions of pounds in actively obstructing action against climate change. Continue reading
3rd Jul 2019
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A net zero carbon budget for the whole transport sector
Analysis shows Department for Transport plans will cause UK to breach carbon budgets; radical new plan needed to cut aviation and road transport carbon by 2030 Continue reading
27th Jun 2019
Friends of the Earth commences High Court action against Cuadrilla over ‘unlawful’ anti-protest injunction
“Injunctions such as that granted to Cuadrilla, raise very significant human rights issues and are a sinister attempt to use the law to stop peaceful protest against the fracking industry.” Continue reading
25th Jun 2019
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