Blogposts tagged 'Friends Of The Earth'

Chasing Kumi around Scotland

Posted by Niall Sookoo - 24 October 2011 at 2:56pm - 0 Comments
Kumi speaking in Scotland during an event with Friends of the Earth
by. Credit: Friends of the Earth
Kumi speaking in Scotland during an event with Friends of the Earth

How many things can you fit in during a 24 hour trip to Edinburgh? The answer is a huge amount if you're Kumi Naidoo, head of Greenpeace across the world.

Article tagged as: climate, climate change, friends of the earth, kumi, scotland

New report sets tar sands in a global context

Posted by christian - 1 March 2010 at 9:04am - 0 Comments

A new report from Friends of the Earth and oil finance experts Platform places a clear financial analysis of the Canadian tar sands alongside testimonies of those affected by the race to extract oil from the Albertan wilderness.

I was struck by the argument it makes that the Canadian tar sands are the 'test case' for an oil industry that wants to move into extracting dirtier unconventional oil in other parts of the world. The report points out other areas of tar sands around the world which are being eyed up by the big oil companies. As the authors point out:

Canada is the international oil industry’s test site – if it becomes acceptable to finance the tar sands of Alberta, then the global finance sector will have ‘normalised’ a disastrously high-carbon development path.

... As investment in technology in Alberta brings down the price of producing synthetic crude and as oil prices fluctuate in higher ranges, companies are re-assessing the potential of operations in other countries. If extraction can be undertaken on the scale envisaged in Alberta then it opens the floodgates for unconventional oil extraction around the world.

In other words, if we allow ourselves to be persuaded that the environmental destruction and soaring carbon emissions that come with the tar sands in Canada is acceptable, we're basically saying that trashing the planet is just business as usual.

Get the report, 'Cashing in on tar sands' (pdf).

Article tagged as: climate change, friends of the earth, oil, platform, tar sands

Joint statement on coal and carbon capture and storage

Publication date:  22 August, 2008

The science of climate change is unequivocal – to avoid catastrophic impacts, industrialised countries like the UK must make steep and urgent reductions in their carbon dioxide emissions. This means that it is unacceptable to build new unabated coal-fired power stations in the UK.

This joint statement from Greenpeace,  WWF, Friends of the Earth and the RSPB calls on the government to:

Download the report:
Article tagged as: CCS, climate change, coal, friends of the earth, reports, RSPB, WWF

You have one minute to save the planet

Posted by jamie - 4 May 2007 at 1:15pm - 0 Comments

Calling all YouTube fans. Fellow green movers at down the road at Friends of the Earth have launched a green film competition. They're asking for 60-second odes to the future of the planet, exploring how we look after it with the assumption that there is a day after tomorrow.

Entries need to be in by 20 August 2007 so there's plenty of time to write, film and edit your mini-masterpiece. Even if you aren't inclined to enter, you can be inspired by the entries on the FoE YouTube channel. And while you're there, you can check out our own channel (although we're not offering any prizes as yet).

Article tagged as: competitions, friends of the earth, videos, what you can do, youtube

Stop Esso campaign history

Posted by bex - 3 May 2003 at 7:00am - 0 Comments
Stop Esso campaign logo

Stop Esso campaign logo

The UK Stop Esso campaign was launched in May 2001 by coalition members Greenpeace, People and Planet and Friends of the Earth.

Bianca Jagger unveiled a "Boycott Esso" mobile billboard at the campaign launch. The Body Shop, Annie Lennox, Ralph Fiennes, Jerome Flynn, Damien Hirst, Keith Allen and several politicians signed up to the boycott.

On the first Stop Esso Day, in villages, towns and cities across the UK and Ireland, over 3000 people peacefully and legally campaigned at Esso petrol stations.

Stop Esso Day II saw Julia Sawalha and Alan Davies join the protests at Esso petrol stations.

These were the largest non-violent direct actions against global warming ever seen in the UK.

May 2002 also marked the launch of Stop ExxonMobil, a US campaign aimed at Esso's parent company. Over the following months, Stop Esso spread around the globe.

Article tagged as: climate change, friends of the earth, oil, people & planet, stop esso, successes

Daily update COP6

Posted by bex - 20 July 2001 at 11:00pm - 0 Comments
Under threat - polar bear

Under threat - polar bear

Update: 21st July

The highlight Saturday outside the conference center, was a massive lifeboat organised by Friends of the Earth, constructed with planks covered in messages from all over the world, and towed throughout the city of Bonn and eventually into the Robert Schumann Platz at the conference center. A party atmosphere prevailed throughout the demonstration, and a good time was had by all.

Inside, Chairman Pronk outlined the process that he planned to use to get us through the final stage of negotiation, which is complicated enough to not bear repeating.

Suffice it to say that his plan called for a series of working groups which would report back to him. Then he would write up a text for consideration by the different groups. This was to happen sometime late in the afternoon. The paper finally arrived some time after 11 PM, so Greenpeace and all the other organisations got hold of copies and rushed off to put together commentary on it.

Article tagged as: climate change, COP, friends of the earth, kyoto protocol
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