Recently I had the chance to take part in Friends of the Earth England, Northern Ireland and Wales’ Basecamp event. As someone based in the Brussels office of Friends of the Earth Europe, getting to visit a national group and see how they do things, plus not being in the stressful role of main organiser …
Bonn climate talks wrap-up: YFoEE delivers an intervention
The latest round of the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, finished yesterday. Tale Ellingvåg from Natur og Ungdom/Young Friends of the Earth Norway delivered the following intervention in the closing plenary (in SBSTA, one of the working streams of the UNFCCC) of the talks on behalf of the youth constituency: Thank you, Mr. …
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Save the city ecology- choose a bike!
Yuriy Lozovenko, youth coordinator of Friends of the Earth Ukraine shares this photo report from the recent Bicycle day in Dnipropetrovsk that they organised. This year the annual Bicycle Day has been held on May, 31st, the last saturday of spring. Despite the rainy weather still over 500 cyclists came. Every year we ride in a …
The journey to a new global climate agreement begins now, but which road will the EU take?
Written by Maruska Mileta and Jamie Gorman from the YFoEE Steering GroupThis article originally appeared in Ejolt and the Ecologist magazine Today at the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, civil society and social movements are calling on the developed countries including the EU to commit to ambitious and equitable action on climate change as …
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Climate talks must deliver people-centred solutions
PRESS RELEASE Brussels, June 6, 2014 – Young Friends of the Earth Europe, alongside other civil society groups, symbolically returned to the International climate talks today. The talks resumed in Bonn, Germany on Monday, the first session since a broad section of civil society walked out of the negotiations in Warsaw last year – in …
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YFoEE tell ministers to “stand with us or step aside”
Today is the second day of the latest round of UN climate talks that are taking place in Bonn, Germany from 4-15th June. YFoEE is there, and will be delivering an intervention to the plenary of Ministers today, on behalf of the youth constituency! Here’s the speech Max will be making… Chairperson, ministers, delegates, thank …
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Fracking and climate justice
As the UN climate negotiations get under way in Bonn, Germany, Jamie Gorman of Young Friends of the Earth Europe gives a quick run down on why the talks are important for the fight against fracking. United Nations climate negotiations will resume for a ten-day session in Bonn, Germany, from 4-15 of June. The talks …
European elections don’t reflect that we’re on a planet that has a problem…
Following the recent European Parliament elections, and YFoEE’s ‘Your Voice, Your Choice’ campaign, Max Ramezani, a member of BUNDjugend (YFoE Germany) and the YFoEE Steering Group, shares his reflections on the results of the elections. Extreme weather events like the recent devastating floods in Southeast Europe are increasing. They are showing that human made climate …
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Campaigning, camping and canoeing- it’s Summer Camp time!
This summer Young Friends of the Earth Europe is glad to invite you to sunny Bulgaria! Our annual summer camp will be held in the midst of the Rhodope Mountains near Beglika lake – well known for its picturesque scene, so make sure you are not going to miss this one out. This year Summer …
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Solidarity with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia!
Written by Maruška Mileta (Croatia), YFoEE Steering group member More than a million people displaced, thousands who have lost everything, more than three dozens confirmed deaths and still counting, hundreds of thousands left without clean water and electricity – the devastating consequences of the recent floods that have hit Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Serbia and …
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