World leaders will gather in Queensland this week. Australian PM Tony Abbott has done his best to keep climate change off the agenda.

The Peoples’ Summit is a three-day festival (Nov 12 – 14) that will run parallel to the formal G20 proceedings. It will feature symposiums, idea-sharing, art, creative activities, education and action bringing together local and international thinkers on economics, environment, climate change, social justice, colonisation, rights, politics and peace.

FoE is helping to organise the Summit.

Friends of the Earth is a proud member of Places You Love.

PYL has just completed a landmark survey of Australia’s environment – our rivers, energy, climate, food, forests, waste and pollution, land management, oceans and reefs.

The End Coal site has been launched by a global alliance of environmental, social justice and health advocates who are concerned about coal’s heavy toll on human health, our natural environment and the planet’s climate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiations, held for three days behind closed doors in Sydney, Australia, have concluded with no indication of a breakthrough. A press statement issued today by the trade ministers from the United States and 10 other countries merely repeated the same public relations generalities about “significant progress,” with few specifics.

Friends of the Earth can announce today that the Victorian Government has withdrawn from a controversial logging trial planned for the Barmah National Park, part of the world’s largest red gum forest.

The joint Victoria-NSW logging trial would have seen commercial logging machinery felling trees across 400 hectares of national park on both sides of the Murray River.

We need thousands of Australians to join us on the 18th of October as we collectively tell Australia's big banks: you choose fossil fuels and your customers will choose another bank!

This is really is urgent. We've just had Australia's biggest ever coal mine approved and over the coming months, owners of new coal mines and ports will be looking to the banks for funding.

We need to get there first and tell Australia's big banks that if they fund these dirty fossil fuel projects, it will cost their reputation and customer base, as well as the environment.

MEDIA ADVISORY. Friends of the Earth International

PENANG, MALAYSIA, 7 October 2014 –  On the eve of the October 10-18 global ‘Reclaim Power’ week, Friends of the Earth Malaysia and Friends of the Earth International urged the Malaysian government to cancel its plans for 12 unnecessary and damaging large dams. (1)

As global governments meet to discuss synthetic biology (synbio) at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting (COP12) in South Korea, Friends of the Earth is calling for a moratorium on the commercial release of synthetically modified organisms (SMOs) until a legally binding international framework for synbio is developed and implemented.

Take Action! Email the Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt and ask him to ensure that Australia supports a precautionary approach to synbio at COP12