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Today, with Push Europe and Friends of the Earth International we gathered to construct a 10 metre tall inflatable dinosaur outside of the UN Climate Talks. Yet this no was ordinary T-Rex, this was the Dirty Carbon Dinosaur ‘Coal-Zilla’, a representative of the outdated and fossilised interests of transnational corporations, big energy investors, and many …

Coalzilla Action: Keep Dirty Energy Out of the Climate TalksRead More

The Friends of the Earth international delegation held a press conference today where they discussed how the climate talks have proceeded so far and what they expect to happen before the conference is due to end this Friday. This delegation included Silje from Young Friends of the Earth Europe, Jagoda Munic the FoE International chairperson …

COP19 set to fail – who is to blame?Read More

Written by Sarah Tyrrell from Young Friends of the Earth Ireland, who is part of the Young Friends of the Earth Europe team at the COP 19 UN Climate Talks in Warsaw.  On Tuesday 19th November, approximately thirty young people from across Europe took part in a demonstration outside the UN Climate Talks in Warsaw …

Nuclear Power = Dirty EnergyRead More

Yesterday at the UN Climate talks, Young Friends of the Earth Europe took part in a number of actions to highlight that coal can play no role if we seriously want to stop climate change. The actions took place to coincide with the launch of the People’s Declaration on Coal, and in response to the …

Coal is not the answer, Coal is not the future.Read More

Today has been a big day for coal at the COP 19 UN climate talks in Poland, and it all coincides with the launch of the People’s Declaration on Coal. Young Friends of the Earth Europe is one of the many organisations from all over the world who have signed onto this declaration, demanding an …

The People’s Declaration on CoalRead More

Calling climate change ‘the Berlin Wall of our times’, activists from Young Friends of te Earth Germany gathered at the remains of that wall to call on the negotiators at the UN climate conference in Warsaw to overcome their wall of inaction. Standing in solidarity with the Phillipines, and all those now facing the deadly …

Activists in Berlin call on negotiators to overcome the wall of climate inactionRead More

Written by Silje Lundberg, Young Friends of the Earth Norway activist at the UN climate talks Last year, at the climate talks in Doha, the Philippine negotiator Yeb Sano moved a whole world with his speech and his tears. «Instead of getting ready for Christmas celebrations and our midnight masses, we may be counting our …

Fasting in SolidarityRead More

groundWork/Friends of the Earth South Africa are holding a People’s Climate Camp in Durban from 14th to 17th November, parallel to the UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, Poland. Community groups from pollution hotspots across the country, faith-based organisations and people’s movements and organisations will be camping in sustainable-settlement style in an area that is set …

Solidarity with the People’s Climate Camp South AfricaRead More

The UN climate talks opened on Monday in the backdrop of the devastating impacts of Typhoon Haiyan one of the strongest storms ever to hit landfall. Yeb Sano, climate commissioner for the Philippines made an electrifying and emotional appeal for action on climate. Delegates held an unprecedented 3 minute silence in solidarity, and Mr. Sano …

Climate activists thrown out for solidarity with victims of typhoon HaiyanRead More

Written by Megan Lewis, media and communications officer at groundWork/Friends of the Earth South Africa “The land means the world to me in the sense that I’m here six days a week from 7 in the morning till 5 in the afternoon and when I get home it’s only my farm that I think of …

My land, my life: Land grab in south DurbanRead More