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Report: England's largest landowners must ramp up tree planting efforts
Report: England's largest landowners must ramp up tree planting efforts

The Church Commissioners of England and Duchy of Cornwall - two of the largest institutional landowners in England - have tree cover rates below the already 'weak' national average of 10 per cent, according to a new study from Friends of the Earth

  • Biodiversity
  • 03 August 2020
'Rigorous and accountable': IUCN launches global standards for nature-based climate projects
'Rigorous and accountable': IUCN launches global standards for nature-based climate projects

International Union for the Conservation of Nature launches guidelines to help businesses and governments design effective tree planting and nature restoration projects that align with climate targets

  • Biodiversity
  • 23 July 2020
Agriculture Bill: Government targets 'balance between food production and environment'
Agriculture Bill: Government targets 'balance between food production and environment'

Defra to table updated Agriculture Bill in Parliament today, promising radical overhaul of 'bureaucratic' EU farming subsidies

  • Legislation
  • 16 January 2020
Flybe rescue? Climate fears mount over mooted cut in air passenger duty
Flybe rescue? Climate fears mount over mooted cut in air passenger duty

Green groups warn any move to reduce the cost of air passenger duty would be 'unacceptable and completely reckless'

  • Taxation
  • 14 January 2020
Labour mulls lift off for Frequent Flier Levy
Labour mulls lift off for Frequent Flier Levy

Shadow minister admits frequent flier levy may be the 'best available option' to halt growth in aviation emissions

  • Aviation
  • 09 December 2019
Labour revs up plan for fully-electric bus fleet across England by 2030
Labour revs up plan for fully-electric bus fleet across England by 2030

Party pledges to invest £4bn in transforming all 35,000 buses operating in England to run on electricity, while expanding local bus services

  • Politics
  • 06 December 2019
'Freeze out fossil fuels' to combat climate breakdown, study urges
'Freeze out fossil fuels' to combat climate breakdown, study urges

Research has found only a tiny proportion of people are making the most effective lifestyle changes to shrink their carbon footprint

  • Energy
  • 01 November 2019
Court of Appeal hears case against Heathrow expansion
Court of Appeal hears case against Heathrow expansion

Net zero goal makes case against Heathrow expansion far stronger, campaigners claim

  • Transport
  • 17 October 2019
Football fans back calls to give single-use plastic a red card
Football fans back calls to give single-use plastic a red card

Green groups call on top football clubs to switch to re-usable cups and phase out single use plastics

  • Waste
  • 12 September 2019
Howzat! Single-use plastic bowled out of the Oval
Howzat! Single-use plastic bowled out of the Oval

Reusable glasses and free drinking fountains have brought the stadium within a whisker of achieving its plastic-free goal

  • Supplier
  • 28 May 2019
Has the Department for Transport 'gone rogue' on climate change?
Has the Department for Transport 'gone rogue' on climate change?

Friends of the Earth report argues Department's emphasis on expanding road infrastructure sidelines climate change concerns

  • Transport
  • 24 May 2019
Faster, deeper, fairer - how the Committee on Climate Change's recommendations could be improved
Faster, deeper, fairer - how the Committee on Climate Change's recommendations could be improved

Total cumulative emissions are what really matter, argues Friends of the Earth's Mike Childs

  • Science
  • 16 May 2019
Heathrow expansion: High Court rejects green legal challenges
Heathrow expansion: High Court rejects green legal challenges

Green groups had argued building third runway would be inconsistent with UK's Paris Agreement climate commitments

  • Policy
  • 01 May 2019
Heathrow third runway unlawful, says Friends of the Earth
Heathrow third runway unlawful, says Friends of the Earth

Environment groups, councils and London mayor challenge airport expansion in high court

  • Aviation
  • 14 March 2019
 Pollution map reveals unsafe air quality at almost 2,000 UK sites
Pollution map reveals unsafe air quality at almost 2,000 UK sites

London, Leeds, Doncaster and Maidstone are among the worst affected

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  • 27 February 2019
Draft UK law seeks to create Committee on Plastic Pollution
Draft UK law seeks to create Committee on Plastic Pollution

First reading of bill backed by cross-party group of MPs aims to 'significantly cut plastic waste and pollution' by 2042

  • Legislation
  • 25 February 2019
How the Climate Change Act took on NIMTO
How the Climate Change Act took on NIMTO

Ten years ago today Martyn Williams was celebrating the passage of the Climate Change Act, but what did the historic legislation aim to achieve?

  • Legislation
  • 26 November 2018
Rolling crisis: Car tyres responsible for thousands of tonnes of microplastic pollution
Rolling crisis: Car tyres responsible for thousands of tonnes of microplastic pollution

Study calculates up to 68,000 tonnes of microplastic pollution released by tyres each year - and much of it will end up in UK waterways and soils

  • Waste
  • 23 November 2018
Government faces court action over 'illegal' planning policy
Government faces court action over 'illegal' planning policy

Friends of the Earth says revised national planning policy makes it 'virtually impossible' for councils to refuse fracking schemes

  • Legislation
  • 04 September 2018
Heathrow expansion faces yet more legal wrangles over climate impact
Heathrow expansion faces yet more legal wrangles over climate impact

Friends of the Earth claims decision to build a third runway at Heathrow is unlawful as it fails to take into account the UK's climate change obligations

  • Aviation
  • 08 August 2018
Fracking green light: Cuadrilla gets go ahead to drill at UK's first onshore shale gas well
Fracking green light: Cuadrilla gets go ahead to drill at UK's first onshore shale gas well

After independent financial resilience assessment, Cuadrilla granted fracking permit by energy and clean growth minister Claire Perry

  • Energy
  • 24 July 2018
As demand for coal falls, it's time to finish the job on opencast
As demand for coal falls, it's time to finish the job on opencast

Friends of the Earth's Craig Bennett argues the justification for new coal mines is collapsing - it is time for the government to act

  • Policy
  • 12 July 2018
Green and pleasant land? Britain's nature at risk from Brexit, warn campaigners
Green and pleasant land? Britain's nature at risk from Brexit, warn campaigners

UK waterways are at particularly high risk from 'zombiefication' of UK environment policy post Brexit, according to new report

  • Legislation
  • 12 April 2018
Druridge Bay: Government urged to reject new coal mine or risk torching green credentials
Druridge Bay: Government urged to reject new coal mine or risk torching green credentials

EXCLUSIVE: Friends of the Earth writes to Communities Secretary Sajid Javid to warn approval for new open cast coal mine would be "entirely at odds with government's coal phase-out policy"

  • Policy
  • 26 February 2018
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