Friends of the Earth

Reasons to be cheerful: how to turn economic gloom into environmental boom

Paul de Zylva presents this talk as part of the Green Week schedule Paul de Zylva presents this talk on: "Reasons to be cheerful: how to turn economic gloom into environmental boom," as part of Imperial College Green Week...

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Conservation Organizations Join Legal Effort to Protect Endangered Blue Whale

SAN FRANCISCO— Friends of the Earth, Pacific Environment, and the Center for Biological Diversity, national and international conservation organizations with a combined membership of more than 120,000 people, today joined a...

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New facility set to open today as part of £40m revamp of Edinburgh Airport

Published Date: 19 November 2009 A NEW departure lounge was set to be unveiled at Edinburgh Airport today following completion of the first phase of a £40 million redevelopment. Gordon Dewar, the airport's managing director,...

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Canada: Recent Developments On Climate Change - November, 2009 - Torys LLP

On October 28, 2009, the Federal Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of Friends of the Earth (FOTE), an environmental non-profit organization, which alleged that the federal government had not fulfilled its obligations under...

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Diary of public protest events

A calendar of actions during the Copenhagen conference Thousands of activists from all over the world will soon descend on Copenhagen with one message: that world leaders must agree a deal that will be effective in reducing...

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World leaders at food summit must feed people, not big business

Dinsdag 17 november 2009 | Friends of the Earth ] Commenting on the World Food Summit in Rome, organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) to tackle rising hunger, Friends of the Earth Food Campaigner...

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'EU emissions scheme is a success'

It was not the market that failed, but the policies that governed how it worked Your article is profoundly disheartening ( Carbon trading is useless, says Friends of the Earth report , 5 November). Instead of adding political...

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Amnesty International hold gas flare protest

Published Date: 17 November 2009 FIRE dancers lit torches on the Royal Mile last night to protest against the illegal, harmful practice of gas flaring. Amnesty International, which organised the event with Friends of the Earth...

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Voting Opens for Angry Mermaid Award for Climate Lobbying

A new award - the Angry Mermaid Award - has been launched to shame the corporates and corporate lobby groups which are lobbying to sabotage effective action on climate change. Eight candidates have been shortlisted for the...

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Obama and Hu agree to aim for climate targets in Copenhagen

Commenting on today's joint statement by US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao declaring that they aimed to make real progress in tackling climate change at next month's UN climate summit through "an accord...

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