Press Releases

Commenting on the announcement today (7 September 2011) of the Scottish Government’s legislative programme, Stan Blackley, Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “While the documentation accompanying the…

Commenting on the release of the Scottish Government’s emissions figures for 2009, Stan Blackley, Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “While we welcome the news that carbon…

Friends of the Earth International was founded 40 years ago, on 15 June 1971, and has since grown into an international federation of diverse grassroots-based environmental organisations in 76 countries…

Scotland’s leading environmental organisation will this evening challenge the Scottish Government on the issue of access to environmental justice. Friends of the Earth Scotland will challenge the Scottish Government to…

Scotland’s leading expert on land rights will outline how increased pressure on the world’s resources is impacting on the poor in Scotland and around the world. Speaking at Friends of…

Friends of the Earth Scotland, Scotland’s leading independent environmental campaigning charity, today announced the appointment of Stan Blackley as the organisation’s new Chief Executive. Mr Blackley comes to Friends of…

Commenting on the news of a ‘Historic climate change deal with legal powers agreed by Cabinet’, Juliet Swann, Head of Campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “That the…

Commenting on the Scottish Conservative manifesto released today, Francis Stuart, Friends of the Earth Scotland Parliamentary Officer, said: “The Tory manifesto is largely a sop to big business, designed to…

The much needed and much delayed Green Investment Bank got an extra £2bn in the Chancellor’s budget, but will be without lending powers until 2015. This effectively renders it a…