Friends of the Earth International, the world's largest federation of grassroots environmental organisations, is proud to announce that its chair, Nnimmo Bassey from Nigeria, will be a recipient of the 2010 'Right Livelihood Award'.

The Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' will be delivered in Stockholm on December 6.

National environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (FoEA) has welcomed the call from Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young for Australia to create a new visa category for Pacific Islanders affected by climate change.

Friends of the Earth has supported today's launch of a nationwide campaign, Save the Cassowary. The endangered Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) perches on the edge of extinction with perhaps as few as 1000 remaining in the tropical rainforests of Far North Queensland.

Both Earthlife Africa and groundWork, Friends of the Earth, South Africa are disappointed with the World Bank's decision to go ahead with its loan to Eskom for it's Medupi power station. By making this decision, the World Bank has shown, quite clearly, that it has no regard for the state of the world's climate and environment, the future of South Africa, and economic principles of transparency and corruption.

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. A major focus for Friends of the Earth International will be to stop destructive logging practices which are killing not only biodiversity but also the livelihoods of many millions of people around the planet. One of the solutions that we promote is known as community forest management.

Forty environment groups from across Australia today called for the Australian Government to act decisively to protect biodiversity in 2010, the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. The groups, representing hundreds of thousands of Australians, want the Government to triple biodiversity investment to $9 billion over three years for on-ground work, stewardship payments, water buy-back, protected area extension and management, research, education and training.

As climate negotiations open in Copenhagen, civil society organizations around the world issued the following statement strongly criticizing the Danish government for acting in a biased, manipulative and nontransparent manner in its role as President of the Conference of the Parties.

Friends of the Earth has welcomed the Senate’s rejection of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation and called on the government to switch to a Plan B on climate.

More than two million supporters of Friends of the Earth International worldwide want the United Nations (UN) climate talks talking place from 7 to 18 December to become a milestone towards 'Climate Justice'.

On Saturday 5 December 2009, ahead of the crucial UN climate summit in Copenhagen, thousands of people from across England and Scotland, from all walks of life, will flow through the streets of their cities to demonstrate their support for a safe climate future for all.