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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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Newcastle City Council unanimously rejects opencast coal mine – Friends of the Earth reaction

climate

news release

19th Dec 2020

Friends of the Earth has welcomed today’s unanimous decision by Newcastle City Council's planning committee to reject a planning application for an opencast coal mine at Dewley Hill.

“Heathrow expansion remains very far from certain”: Friends of the Earth reacts as Supreme Court rules on policy allowing third runway

climate

news release

16th Dec 2020

Judgment is no ‘green light’ for expansion. It makes clear that full climate considerations remain to be addressed and resolved at the planning stage, where Friends of the Earth will continue the challenge against a third runway

PM announcement: UK government investment in overseas oil ends, but Mozambique gas project continues

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news release

11th Dec 2020

UK government announce it will stop funding oil and gas projects abroad in a victory for climate justice

“Too Conservative” – Friends of the Earth respond to CCC report

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news release

9th Dec 2020

The advice of the government’s advisory Committee on Climate Change on the Sixth Carbon Budget is published today. Responding, Mike Childs, Head of Science at Friends of the Earth, said:

Support local councils or miss your own climate targets – Friends of the Earth and local government issue warning to Westminster

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news release

8th Dec 2020

Groups including Friends of the Earth, Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, ADEPT, and Ashden call for central government to provide more funding and support for local action on climate crisis

Friends of the Earth welcomes breakthrough in deadlock over controversial Sefton road building plans

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Friends of the Earth has welcomed a report from Sefton Council (released 1 Dec) looking at alternatives to Highways England’s controversial A5036 Port of Liverpool Access Scheme.

UK government claims ambitious climate targets but “convenient omissions” leave questions

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news release

4th Dec 2020

The Prime Minister has today (Friday 4 December) announced targets designed to reduce the UK’s emissions by at least 68% by 2030 when compared to 1990 levels. Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) were agreed under the Paris Climate Agreement and commit …

Spending Review: Aid Budget cut, National Infrastructure Strategy unveiled – Friends of the Earth reaction

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news release

25th Nov 2020

Reacting to the Chancellor’s decision today to cut the overseas aid budget to 0.5% of gross national income in 2021, Friends of the Earth’s International climate campaigner, Rachel Kennerley said

Friends of the Earth releases tips to help people reconnect with nature during lockdown

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news release

19th Nov 2020

As we approach the third week of the national lockdown in England, polling for Friends of the Earth shows two in five (43 per cent) are not getting outside into nature as much as they did during the first lockdown, with just one in ten (13 per cent) claiming to be getting out more this Autumn.

Prime Minister outlines 10 Point Green Plan – Friends of the Earth reaction

climate

news release

17th Nov 2020

Commitments fall far short of ambitious policy overhaul needed

High Court hears legal challenge against Surrey oil development

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news release

High Court hears legal challenge against Surrey oil development A legal challenge to Surrey County Council’s decision to allow 20 years of oil drilling and production to take place near Gatwick airport begins in the High Court today.

‘No time to waste’ on climate, warns PM – Friends of the Earth reaction

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news release

11th Nov 2020

Reacting to Boris Johnson’s warning that there is “no time to waste” on climate action, Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Muna Suleiman said “Urgent action is needed to deal with the climate crisis, which is why Boris Johnson must turn around his government’s failure to keep on track to meet its own target for cutting emissions.

Government’s 2020 peat-free target way off track

nature

news release

28th Oct 2020

Friends of the Earth is calling on ministers to act after new figures revealed that the horticultural industry was way off track for meeting a government target of stopping peat use by amateur gardeners by 2020.

Urgent Action needed to Clean Up Greater Manchester’s illegal air pollution

transport

news release

8th Oct 2020

Environmental campaigners and local parents are calling for more urgent and ambitious action to clean up air in Greater Manchester, as a consultation on a future Clean Air Zone is launched today (8 October).

Heathrow Third Runway: Friends of the Earth in Supreme Court to defend historic victory

climate

news release

7th Oct 2020

“The UK must invest in low-carbon, resilient infrastructure and create green jobs in sectors such as clean transport, renewable energy and home insulation.” Jenny Bates, Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth reacts to Cumbrian coal mine application, after council gives approval

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news release

3rd Oct 2020

The government should ‘call in’ a planning application for a controversial coal mine in Cumbria, Friends of the Earth said today, following a decision by the county council to approve it.

England’s not so green and pleasant land: millions can only access green space size of garden shed

nature

news release

16th Sep 2020

Friends of the Earth identifies the 1,257 neighbourhoods that are most green space deprived in England, with 1 in 5 people struggling to access green space.

Druridge Bay: Planning permission for environmentally unacceptable opencast coal mine rejected – Friends of the Earth reaction

climate

news release

8th Sep 2020

Today’s decision by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick to refuse planning permission for a controversial opencast coal mine at Druridge Bay, has been welcomed by Friends of the Earth.

Planning reforms are bad news for communities and environment

news release

6th Aug 2020

Responding to government plans revealed today to overhaul the planning system, Kate Gordon, senior planner at Friends of the Earth, said: “These planning reforms are bad news for our communities, climate, and local democracy.

Mapped: more than one thousand locations in England still breaching air pollution limits

transport

news release

29th Jul 2020

A data audit* by Friends of the Earth has revealed the 1,360 sites across England that have breached the annual Air Quality Objective for Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) levels, which are set to protect health.

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