Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 09/08/2007 - 07:11
Friends of the Earth Australia has expressed its disappointment at the Coalition government’s continuing refusal to address the issue of climate refugees in the Senate debate over the Migration (Climate Refugees) Amendment Bill today.
Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 09/08/2007 - 07:07
National environment group Friends of the Earth Australia calls on all federal politicians to support the private members bill to establish a Climate Refugee Visa, which will be debated in the Senate on Thursday August 9.
Friends of the Earth Australia
Climate Justice Campaign
MEDIA RELEASE: 8 th August 2007
Federal Politicians urged to support Climate Refugee Bill
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 08/08/2007 - 01:17
Leaders from a number of civil society organisations meeting in Canberra today expressed their severe dismay about the legislation related to the takeover of Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and are calling for a delay in the legislation’s passage so that it can be properly assessed by the Australian community and Parliament.
Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 23:51
Foreign minister Alexander Downer's August 1 media release on proposals for the US and Australia to sell uranium and reactors to India is false and misleading, Friends of the Earth claimed today.
MEDIA RELEASE - AUGUST 3 2007
DOWNER MISLEADS ON INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL
Foreign minister Alexander Downer's August 1 media release on proposals for the US and Australia to sell uranium and reactors to India is false and misleading, Friends of the Earth claimed today.
Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 31/07/2007 - 20:19
An international coalition of 44 environment, public interest and labour organisations has released a set of “joint principles” calling for urgent precautionary management of nanotechnology’s toxicity risks to human health and the environment, and its significant social challenges.
Media Release - Friends of the Earth Australia
International coalition calls for urgent precautionary management of Nanotechnology
Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 19/07/2007 - 00:41
The Victorian Environment Assessment Council (VEAC) has handed down an outstanding set of draft recommendations to protect remaining red gum wetlands along the Murray and its tributaries.
media release
Bracks gets mandate to protect red gums in 4 new National Parks
Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 10/07/2007 - 21:54
The Dutch Advertising Authority has instructed oil giant Shell to stop misleading the public, after Friends of the Earth Netherlands filed a complaint against a “greenwash” advertisement that claimed that Shell uses its waste carbon dioxide to grow flowers.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 04/07/2007 - 01:18
Friends of the Earth, Australia is urging conservationist and scientist James Lovelock to get his facts straight on nuclear issues. Prof. Lovelock, famous for his 'Gaia Theory' of the Earth as a self-regulating organism, will be in Adelaide this weekend speaking at the Festival of Ideas.
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 25/06/2007 - 02:17
More intense and frequent bushfires due to climate change threaten the world heritage values of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. FoE has joined with other green organisations in taking a petition to the World Heritage Committee meeting being held in New Zealand/Aotearoa.
Climate change poses a direct threat to the World Heritage-listed eucalypt forests of the Blue Mountains and urgent steps must be taken to protect it, a petition to the World Heritage Committee states.
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 18/06/2007 - 07:39
Friends of the Earth Netherlands wants governments to combat deforestation by taking CITES measures to regulate trade, but will they move beyond their fear of detrimental economic impacts and lobbying from the timber industry? To make sure change happens, we need your help.
In early June, the 14th conference of the 'Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora' (CITES) will be held in the Netherlands.
