FoEA is currently a member of the following networks and organisations:
- we are the Australian member of Friends of the Earth International, the largest grassroots environmental network on the planet
- Climate Action Network Australia (CANA)
- the Global Paper Alliance, which is aiming to ensure environmentally sustainable paper production
- we are a founding member of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance
- Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)
- The Boomerang Alliance. The Alliance is made up of Australia's leading environment groups, and is committed to work for zero waste in Australia.
- The Refugee Council of Australia
- The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
- The Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (formerly the Alliance Against Uranium).
- with a number of other environmental groups, FoE is a signatory to a Memorandum of Understanding with The Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN). MLDRIN is a confederation of Indigenous Nations in the southern part of the Murray Darling Basin.
- we are a founding member of Fair Trade Australia & New Zealand
FoE works closely with the following organisations on a range of issues and projects:
- Australian Environmental Justice (AEJ) research team at RMIT University - Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project
- The Australia Institute
- The Australian Climate Justice Program
- The Australian Conservation Foundation
- Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN)
- Australian Youth Climate Coalition
- The Change Agency (QLD)
- Environment Defenders Office and Environment Justice Australia
- Environment Projects Australia
- Gene Ethics Network
- GetUp
- MADGE Australia
- Centre for Global Research at RMIT (VIC)
- In 2012, we helped establish the Safe Food Foundation
- climate campaigning organisation 350.org
Previous memberships and projects
- In 2006, FoE was a founding member of the NGO roundtable on climate change, which brought together development and environmental organisations on the shared issue of climate change
- Coalition for People’s Transport (VIC) (composed of Environment Victoria, Victorian Council of Social Service and Public Transport Users Association)
- we were active members of the Make Poverty History climate change campaign.
- FoE was a participant in the Civil Society Dialogues organised by the ACF, ACTU and ACOSS.
- In 2008 we became a member of the No Pulp Mill Alliance, which is working to stop the pulp mill planned for north eastern Tasmania.
- In 2008 we joined the Global Forest Coalition
- In 2008 we joined Environment Tasmania
- We were a founding member of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in Australia.