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“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

As governments from around the world meet in Lima for the annual UN climate talks (known as COP20) from December 1st to 12th, 50 youth climate activists from 12 European countries are gathering in Brussels to share knowledge, lay down their demands for climate justice, mobilise for action in the run-up to next year’s crucial …

“Lima in Brussels” – climate justice movement buildingRead More

“We did not only want to fight GMOs, but contribute something positive to society”, Ivo started. As he continued I was quickly drawn into his story. As we sat in the grass during a sunny day in Bulgaria’s Rhodope mountains it was not difficult to imagine the positive energy deriving from Friends of the Earth …

Food Sovereignty lifts off in BulgariaRead More

By Radostina Slavkova, Za Zemiata/Friends of the Earth Bulgaria During the third day of the camp we had an inspiring lecture about the philosophy of composting, called “Compost: Black Gold”. It was led by the American chef, farmer and writer Casey Angelova. She has lived in Bulgaria for almost eight years and grows perennial vegetables, …

The who, why and how of compostingRead More

Every year, one third of the food that we produce globally for human consumption gets wasted. That’s 1.3 billion tonnes in total, of produce that’s used precious energy and water resources to be grown, picked, processed and transported, to then only end up in the trash bin. One thing that people around the world are …

Top tips for successful dumpster divingRead More

Written by Maruška Mileta from Young Friends of the Earth Europe; contributions by the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. A four day gathering of civil society and social movements (Social Pre-COP) on Margarita Island in Venezuela concluded on November 7th, after having given communities affected by climate change a voice in the run up …

We need a more just world to prevent catastrophic climate changeRead More