Climate Justice

Environment Watch - the Coalitions track record on environment

The federal election campaign of 2013 was environment 'lite', with mainstream media concentrating on a range of domestic and international issues, and very little coverage of climate and environment.

Canberra: Call on COAG to stand up for renewables!

National Convention Centre Canberra on Friday 19 August

Energy Minister right on renewables and climate, wrong on gas

Media release. Friends of the Earth Australia. July 28, 2016

New federal energy and environment minister Josh Frydenberg has indicated a significant shift in energy policy for the Coalition. Minister Frydenberg has said that more renewable energy will be required with the decline of coal.

The minister has also called for more gas supplies and suppliers and for gas moratoria to be removed.

Friends of the Earth are encouraged by the positive rhetoric on renewable energy but urge the new minister to support bans on risky onshore gasfield development.

Fuelling the fire: new coal technologies spell disaster for climate

A new report by Friends of the Earth International demonstrates how Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) and Coal Chemical technologies threaten to destabilise the earth’s climate and irreversibly damage local environments.

The report, launched today, comes in the wake of UCG being banned in Queensland, Australia. There is interest in and development of UCG in Europe, Russia, Canada, the US, China and India. It is currently under moratorium in Scotland.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership 2016 Election Scorecard

Friends of the Earth is a founding member of the TPP Unions and Community Roundtable. We are committed to preventing the ratification of the TPP, and work with a variety of politicians, unions, community groups and individuals in order to achieve this goal.
 
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Renewable energy jobs boom on the horizon as Andrews govt announces Vic Renewable Energy Targets

VICTORIA, 15 JUNE 2016: A renewable energy boom is on the horizon for Victoria as the Andrews government today announces state Renewable Energy Targets (VRET). The long-awaited announcement comes after a two-and-a-half year community campaign to grow renewables.

"The Andrews government's announcement of Victorian Renewable Energy Targets is a big win for communities who want a pathway to 100 percent," said Leigh Ewbank, Friends of the Earth spokesperson.

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Calls for international moratorium on underground coal gasification following immediate ban in Queensland, Australia

APRIL 18, 2016: Responding to the breaking news that the State Government of Queensland in Australia has just implemented an immediate ban on all underground coal gasification in that State, Chloe Aldenhoven, Coal and Gas Spokesperson for Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia said:

We’re on the move – are you?

Speaking tour on the climate change precipitated relocation of atoll peoples in Papua New Guinea, and the implications for climate justice in an Australian context

Trans Pacific Partnership ceremony is a farce - tough national battles awaits bad trade deal

Friends of the Earth International Press Release.

Auckland, New Zealand  4th February 2016,  Today trade ministers from 12 countries party to the giant 'Trans Pacific Partnership' held a symbolic signing of a trade deal which sets the economic  and pro corporate rules for 40 percent of the world economy.

Friends of the Earth International warned that the 'Trans Pacific Partnership', or TPP, will threaten people and planet, if ratified.

Sam Cossar-Gilbert, Friends of the Earth International Economic Justice Coordinator, said: 

Tassie Forest Fires - a climate wake up call

 

Burnt cushion plants and pencil pine at Lake Mackenzie after bushfires tore through  the area in Tasmania’s Central Plateau. Picture: ROB BLAKERSUPDATE. APRIL 2016

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