Friends of the Earth

'Street-by-street': How the government could tackle 'energy crisis hotspots'

Policy

'Street-by-street': How the government could tackle 'energy crisis hotspots'

Friends of the Earth and the New Economics Foundation call on government to invest £15bn in improving housing stock in response to surging energy bills this winter

clock 22 August 2022 • 6 min read
Decision on controversial Cumbria coal mine delayed until November

Policy

Decision on controversial Cumbria coal mine delayed until November

Government tells Friends of the Earth it needs more time to consider 'complex matter'

clock 11 August 2022 • 3 min read
'Flawed and Unlawful': Campaigners advance legal challenge to 'inadequate' Net Zero Strategy

Policy

'Flawed and Unlawful': Campaigners advance legal challenge to 'inadequate' Net Zero Strategy

Campaigners announce legal case against the government's Net Zero Strategy has secured a High Court hearing

clock 08 June 2022 • 4 min read
'Pie-in-the-sky approach': Net Zero Strategy taken to court by environmental groups

Policy

'Pie-in-the-sky approach': Net Zero Strategy taken to court by environmental groups

Separate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets

clock 12 January 2022 • 5 min read
Net Zero Festival: Negative emissions - can carbon offsets ever be credible?

Offsets

Net Zero Festival: Negative emissions - can carbon offsets ever be credible?

VIDEO: Top experts from the University of Oxford, Friends of the Earth, Vertree and the UK Green Building Council tackle the carbon offsets debate

clock 14 October 2021 • 1 min read

Climate change

'We urgently need to prepare': Green figures react to the CCC's climate risk warning

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change

clock 16 June 2021 • 11 min read

Energy

'Monumental victory': Dutch court orders Shell to slash emissions in landmark ruling

Campaigners hail 'historic' verdict which could have reaching consequences for major polluters worldwide

clock 26 May 2021 • 4 min read

Work

Boost pandemic recovery with 250,000 green apprenticeships, Friends of the Earth urges

Research argues over £10bn of funding for a massive programme of green apprenticeships would boost jobs and prospects for younger people in the UK

clock 02 March 2021 • 3 min read

Politics

'Burning coal is a global problem': Green groups urge government to block Cumbrian coal mine

Environmental groups argue government's decision to frame coal mine as a 'local issue' turns blind eye to global impacts of burning coal, as calls grow for government to intervene while it still can

clock 05 February 2021 • 4 min read

Waste

'A relatively static picture': UK supermarkets stock fractionally more plastic in 2019 than two years prior

Campaigners accuse supermarkets of 'treading water' on plastic pollution, while pressure builds on MPs to accept amendmends to Environment Bill that would see the UK adopt legally-binding plastics reduction targets

clock 26 January 2021 • 5 min read
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