Governments meeting in Bali, Indonesia for the 13th Conference of the Parties/3rd Meeting of the Parties to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 3-14 December 2007, need to recognise that this may be our last opportunity to stop runaway climate change and that with 18-20% of annual carbon emissions being caused by deforestation, protecting our forests is a key part of this.

A new report from Friends of the Earth International launched on November 26 provides nine testimonies from community members around the globe who have dramatic first-hand experience of the devastating impacts of climate change.

Biofuels must not be promoted as a solution to climate change, Friends of the Earth International said today, just a few days before key United Nations climate change talks start in Bali, Indonesia.

This festive season, community environment group Friends of the Earth is encouraging community members to eat locally as a way of reducing their environmental impact and understanding more about the impacts of our food system.

On 3-14 December, the thirteenth annual negotiating conference for members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will take place on the Indonesian island of Bali.

MEDIA RELEASE - NOVEMBER 22 2007

PM URGED TO COME CLEAN ON NUCLEAR PLANS

Environmentalists have called on PM Howard to detail his plans for a nuclear Australia should he be re-elected on Saturday.

Friends of the Earth Kuranda has called for a full and public analysis of the likely impacts of plans for a major urban development in Myola Valley in far north Queensland.

Global warming is set to reverse decades of social and economic progress across the Asia-Pacific, home to more than four billion people or 60 per cent of the world’s population, according to a new multi-agency report published today called Up in Smoke: Asia and the Pacific.

Federal government plans to impose a controversial radioactive waste dump in the NT will be the focus of actions around Australia next Monday, November 19.

The Coalition’s federal election campaign headquarters will be put on the map today with a massive white elephant set to be inflated at the Melbourne CBD location.