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Impacts of wars overseas coming closer to home
Escalating violence in the Middle East is killing people and damaging the environment

The war in Iran means we must reach for renewables – not more oil
The fossil fuel industry is trying to exploit this crisis for their own interest.

Why cold homes are a climate justice issue
The transition away from fossil fuels is a chance to transform our energy system to work for the public and improves our lives.
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Our 35th birthday!
Birthday celebrations are happening today, as Scotland’s leading environmental campaign group mark their 35th anniversary. Ensuring justice for people and the environment has been the main objective of Friends of…
From the front-line of anti-shale gas struggles – Guest blog
Antoine Simon and David Heller from Friends of the Earth Europe, travelled to the village of Pungeşti in Romania this weekend to observe and document the village’s resistance to shale…
Reflection on the Life of Nelson Mandela: Guest Blog
By Bobby Peek, Director of groundWork (as hosted on Friends of the Earth South Africa blog) The environmental justice movement, and indeed my own environmental justice activism is grounded by…
Guest blog from COP 19 – Jo O’Neill
Guest blog by Jo O’Neill (from SCIAF) written at COP 19 in Warsaw (Sunday 24th November 2013) In the dying hours of the climate talks last night activists took to…
COP 19 in Warsaw – Jo O’Neill
Guest blog from Jo O’Neill, Policy Officer at SCIAF (Saturday 23rd November 2013, written from COP 19 in Warsaw) Here at the national football stadium in Warsaw, the COP has…
Warsaw, Thursday 21 November 2013: It’s a COP19-out
It’s been brewing since Copenhagen 2009, and today it finally happened. An estimated 800+ civil society observers – led by groups from the global south – walked out of the…
Blog 4: COP19 Warsaw – does it care?
The Polish Government has a funny sense of humour. Having plastered the COP19 slogan ‘I care’ all over Warsaw, in an intensely irritating font, it set about doing its best…
Acronyms and Ambition, COP19 Warsaw 19 November
Today’s COP coverage is a guest blog from SCIAF’s Jo O’Neill It is a process infamous for its breath-taking use of acronyms and today the UN climate negotiations acquired a…
Blog 2: COP19, Warsaw 18 November 13
The Polish police are very useful to those of us with a poor sense of direction navigating between conference venues and demonstrations. It’s hard to miss the Robo-cop lookalikes with…
