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During Lima in Brussels, some participants reached out to and met with some of their MEPs in the European Parliament. Ciara Ryan-Gerhardt from Ireland reports… Two things stopped me in my activist tracks at the European Parliament Building this week. I am here to learn about, campaign and build awareness for climate justice; today I …

How meeting MEPs forced me to think clearly about what climate justice meansRead More

Meanwhile in Lima… Charlotte Chan from Young Friends of the Earth reports back on the “world march in defense of mother earth” yesterday when 20,000 people flooded central Lima calling for “Climate Justice Now!” in the largest demonstration the city has seen since 2010…. Human rights is no laughing matter, it’s a basic need for …

Climate justice now – thousands march in LimaRead More

Today, we decided to call (and god, it was loud!) on the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Brussels to stop funding fossil fuel projects and false solutions to the climate crisis like shale gas, and to make a complete shift towards renewable energy investments. Why now – like, what has the EIB got to do …

Public money undermining real climate change solutions? No way!Read More

Meanwhile in Lima, Charlotte Chan from Young Friends Of the Earth writes… There’s a house in Lima on a corner of the street next to the park that looks unassuming to passers-by, however inside is a different story. Inside is bustling with creativity plastered with art everywhere you turn from posters, murals, and installations propped …

Casa Tierra: House of ActionRead More

Today, on the 9th of December, the fourth day of our Lima in Brussels gathering, we showed our solidarity with the coalition Stop TTIP CETA and TISA and the Federation of Young European Greens by taking our banners, spirits and vocal cords and getting together in front of the European Commission main building. Our objective …

TTIP Birthday party for JunckerRead More

“Climate change is a human rights issue”, said our banner as we joined a number of Belgian human rights organisations last night to march through Brussels for the annual “Stop The Killings” awards, an annual solidarity action with human rights defenders across the world who are persecuted by their national governments. Around 150 people gathered …

Stop the killings: marching for human rights and environmental defendersRead More

by Maruška We demand more than sympathy, we want ambitious climate action from the EU NOW! A year ago, in Warsaw, on the first day of COP19, we mobilised for the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan had killed thousands of people, bringing Philippino negotiator Yeb Saño to tears in the plenary hall of the UN climate talks. …

Solidarity action: we stand with the Philippines at Lima climate talksRead More

by Jamie and Clémence To launch Lima in Brussels, we decided to start with the basics: a discussion on climate justice. In a nutshell, climate justice is a notion (and movement) that aims to link social justice issues with the climate crisis. The climate justice movement questions and deconstructs the main narrative – that the …

How a climate justice quiz turned into a miniature UN climate conferenceRead More

Brussels, December 12 2014 Dear Mr Giovanni La Via, Mr Jo Leinen, Mr Jerzy Buzek, Mr Karl-Heinz Florenz, Ms Elisabetta Gardini, Mr Seb Dance, Ms Kathleen Van Brempt, Mr Ian D, Mr Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Ms Merja Kyllonen, Mr Bas Eickhout, and Mr Valentinas Mazuronis,   Over the last two weeks, citizens across Europe have looked …

YFoEE open letter to the MEP delegation at the COP20 in LimaRead More

Young Friends of the Earth Europe supports the demnds of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the Canadian Government, on the opening day of the 2015 UN climate talks in Lima, Peru.  To the Government of Canada: We are the Canadian Youth Delegation, supported by more than sixty environmental non-profits, labour groups, and youth organizations. We are …

Canadian Youth Delegation Open Letter to GovernmentRead More