Busy days at the UN climate negotiations, and YFoEE is here to remind delegations to the urgency for action and the principles of global equity and justice. by Marco Cadena, YFoEE Climate Justice Working Group. Twitter: @MarcoCadena99 — Here at the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, the first two days were incredibly busy for …
Application form- YFoEE summer camp 2012
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Land Grabs: Liberia’s Titanic Problem?
Sitting in the rural Liberian village of Small Bong Mines, about to eat a meal at the house of one of my new colleagues at the Sustainable Development Institute -Friends of the Earth (FoE) Liberia- the voice of Celine Dion unexpectedly floated across the dead heat of the midday sun. ‘Near, far, where ever you …
Tar Sands action day | 5th May
As we start to see the impacts of climate change all around the world, it would be essential to stop being dependent on fossil fuels. But despite this urgent need, oil companies teamed up with the Canadian government and trying to bring tar sands, the most polluting fossil fuel, into Europe. An important day for …
Young FoEE Around Europe
Norway Action against oil drilling in Norway For this year and next year Nature and Youth’s (YFoE Norway) priority campaign is against oil drilling outside the beautiful Lofoten Islands, where the worlds largest stock of cod lives, and where you will find the worlds largest cold water coral reef. Over the past months they have …
Young FoEE AGM
Together we did lots of planning for 2009 and 2010, including our climate change work in the lead up to Copenhagen, from how we as European youth can have the most impact in the lead up to and during the negotiations, to how we can converge on Copenhagen overland from all corners of Europe. There …
Young FoEE Network Gathering
20 people joined the now annual Young FoEE network gathering, which this year took place in the Dutch countryside, and was hosted by JMA (Young FoE Netherlands). Representatives from the following groups joined the meeting: Young FoE Ireland, Young FoE Hungary, Global 2000 (Austria) activist group, Green Action (Croatia) activist group, BUNDjugend (YFoE Germany), FoE …
BUNDjugend New Climate Action group formed
A group of activists from BUNDjugend have formed a group called the ‘Climate Compass Group’ to work together continuously and intensively on BUNDjugend’s main climate issues in 2010. Members of this new group include many of those who were active with the Young FoEE 2009 Act Nowteam, and very active members of the German climateteam.So …
The Ecotopia Biketour
The 2010 biketour cycled through England, Wales, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, where it finished at the end of August. The Ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile do-it-yourself activist community emerging every summer already for 20 years. We aim to learn from each other and the local groups we visit and support their campaigns in …
The 10:10 Campaign
Young Friends of the Earth Netherlands is at the moment very busy promoting the 10:10 campaign. 10:10 is a global campaign to cut carbon by 10% a year – starting in 2010. We ask families, schools, businesses and individuals to join the campaign. In mid September we gathered 1500 scouting youth to make a very …