As the year ends many of us will be thinking about new year resolutions. Friends of the Earth wants everyone, especially those in power, to make 2020 the year we save the planet from catastrophic climate breakdown. It can be small, individual actions, or making the decision to join other people for collective change. Whatever you resolve to do, start the new decade feeling positive that we can all make a difference.
The Conservative Party failed to address the climate and nature emergency in this election but with floods and wildfires already destroying communities here and abroad, the new government cannot hide from its responsibilities and must urgently prioritise the climate crisis – says Friends of the Earth.
Next government must put climate and ecological crisis at top of the agenda, says Friends of the Earth
Over 1,000 prospective parliamentary candidates (1,031 as of 05/12/19) out of 3,006 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have taken a Friends of the Earth pledge to make the climate crisis a deal-breaker in how they would vote in parliament if elected.
Thursday 28th November will see the first #ClimateNatureDebate held during a General Election campaign.[1]
Thursday 28th November will see the launch of a new group in Tameside dedicated to acting to prevent climate breakdown, amid concerns the council is not taking the urgent actions necessary.
Following a campaign from students, activists and green groups Channel 4 have today (21 November) announced they are hosting a general election TV debate dedicated to the climate.
The next UK government must stop giving financial support to fracking operations overseas, a coalition of organisations is demanding today.
Manchester Friends of the Earth invite people to a discussion evening on Monday 11th November with Mike Childs, Head of Science, Policy and Research at Friends of the Earth (FoE) who will outline the UK's pathway for achieving net-zero greenhouse emissions - exploring what will need to happen to transport, power, buildings, land-use, industry, waste, shipping and aviation to get us there.
Environmental campaign group calls on Britons to make a green energy switch this November
A moratorium on fracking in England, announced today by the government, has been warmly welcomed by Friends of the Earth.
“This is a quietly critical report that doesn’t give the fracking industry any revived sense of hope. The NAO have several concerns including the mark-your-own-homework approach to regulation and the lack of clarity over who should be responsible for clean-up costs if fracking ever got going.
“Heathrow’s third runway project is fuelled by government climate hypocrisy. It would be an emissions disaster and doesn’t even have the public backing that the planners like to assume it has. "
Manchester Friends of the Earth has joined the call for Highways England to be scrapped and to replaced with an agency that looks at transport in the round.
Climate campaigners are urging Trafford councillors to support a motion calling on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to stop funding fossil fuel companies at the Trafford Council meeting on Wednesday 9th October.
Salford has topped the table of the most climate-friendly councils in the North West, according to new research by Friends of the Earth released today (Thursday 3 October) with Pendle and Ribble Valley councils not doing so well.
News that fracking will not take place at Preston New Road before current planning permission expires at the end of November, has been welcomed by Friends of the Earth.
"For too long governments have hidden away from the further climate disaster that would come with aviation expansion."
For what was the largest climate mobilisation in history, millions of people took to the streets to protest. The youth called on everyone, not just the young people, to join them on the 20th of September in demonstrations ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit.
