National environment group Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) has backed a call by Greens leader Bob Brown for a ban on coal exports and coal-fired power generation in Australia.

February 9, 2007

National environment group Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) has backed a call by Greens leader Bob Brown for a ban on coal exports and coal-fired power generation in Australia.

PARIS (FRANCE) FEBRUARY 2, 2007 -- Friends of the Earth International today called on world leaders to take urgent action to cut emissions of greenhouse gases after the planet’s leading scientific experts, endorsed by the world's governments, delivered the starkest warning yet on the threat of global climate change.

February 2, 2007

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published its long anticipated Fourth Assessment Report in Paris today (Friday 2nd January) providing the most credible and convincing evidence so far of the human link to climate change and its devastating impacts. [1]

New report about damage to the environment and communities caused by Shell

Janaury 31, 2007

Friends of the Earth/ Shell Accountability Campaign

Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / London (UK), January 31st 2007 - A new report, launched the day before oil giant Shell announces its 2006 annual profits (on 1 February 2007) calls on Shell to use the profits to begin cleaning up damage it has caused to communities and the environment [1].

PARIS (FRANCE), 2 February 2007 -- The world's leading scientific experts are set to deliver the latest, starkest findings on climate change.

January 29, 2007

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change begins its release of the long anticipated Fourth Assessment Report in Paris on 2 February 2007, which is set to provide the most credible evidence yet of the human link to climate change and its devastating impacts.

IPCC ignoring key climate change data

Janaury 29, 2007

Friends of the Earth Australia released a new report today that examines recent climate science and warns of catastrophic climate change unless more dramatic steps are taken to reduce emissions.

The report, Avoiding Catastrophe: Recent Science and New Data on global warming, also concludes that previous proposals for emission reductions have seriously underestimated the scope and danger of the climate problem.

Shopping at large supermarkets is the worst thing people can do for farmers, according to a local environmental and social justice organisation.

January 23, 2007

Cam Walker, Campaigns Coordinator at Friends of the Earth, says that with 70% of the retail grocery market held by two major players, big supermarkets have the upper hand in their dealings with farmers. "This means that they, not farmers, set the prices and conditions under which they buy. They dictate how, where, when and for how much food is produced, packaged, stored and delivered. They even control what varieties of crops are grown," he said.

European Commission favours dirty energy over renewables, contradicting its own findings on the best way forward

January 10, 2007

EU ENERGY PACKAGE TOO FEEBLE TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

Brussels, 10 January 2007 - The European Commission's Energy Package, released today, is largely "good news for the dirty energy industry, bad news for people and the planet", according to Friends of the Earth Europe.

Friends of the Earth Brisbane says that today’s announcement of the opening of a new coal mine near Clermont in Queensland signals that the Beattie Government is not taking the threat of climate change seriously.

January 10, 2007

“A government serious about addressing climate change should be leaving coal in the ground and start shifting towards developing a strong renewable energy industry” said Friends of the Earth’s Climate Justice spokesperson Emma Brindal.

National environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) has welcomed the announcement that the Githabul people will get joint management control of World Heritage-listed national parks in northern NSW.

Janaury 2, 2007

“Given the way the Native Title legislation works, there is very little ability for traditional owners to gain control over their lands; it is only the public lands that are available for claim. Therefore, we need to be supportive of such claims on national parks as one element in achieving land justice for these communities” said FoEA spokesperson Binnie O'Dwyer.

December 21 , 2006

National environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has joined with other green organisations, the renewable energy industry and local communities in welcoming today's announcement on the Bald Hills Wind farm. Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell has approved the $220m Bald Hills project in South Gippsland.