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[Top] General: Factsheets

26 Mar 98    Energy       
03 Apr 01    FOE Briefing: Tips For a Greener Christmas
20 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: What to do if you think your health has been affected by chemicals       
20 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: What to do if you think your health has been affected by chemicals
23 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: Chemical laws - Towards a safer future
23 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: Chemicals and your health
23 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: EU chemical testing on animals
23 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: Risky chemicals in the home and how to avoid them
24 Jan 01    FOE Briefing: The History of Friends of the Earth
24 Jan 01    FOE Briefing: The History of Friends of the Earth
26 Mar 98    Forests       
26 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: How to be a Friend of the Earth
26 Mar 98    History of Friends of the Earth       
16 Sep 99    Solar Power       
21 Apr 98    Transport       
26 Mar 98    UK Habitats       
26 Mar 98    Waste       

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98    FOE Briefing: sgtest11       
15 May 01    FOE Briefing: Green Cross Code
15 May 01    FOE Briefing: The Real Manifestos

[Top] Food and Biotechnology: Food and Biotechnology

08 Feb 00    Antibiotic resistance genes in GM foods       
15 Feb 00    Act Now to Stop Commercialisation of GM Crops!       
08 Feb 00    Bees, Honey and Genetically Modified Crops       
08 Feb 00    Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides       
01 Jan 96    Food Standards Agency: Report By Professor Philip James - Response from Friends of the Earth       
01 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides - European Priority List
01 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: Illegal GM Food
03 Jul 01    FOE Briefing: Pesticides in Supermarket food
04 Jul 01    FOE Briefing: Pesticides in Supermarket food
05 Apr 01    FOE Briefing: Bad Science, Bad Decisions - The evidence against Aventis' GM maize
06 Nov 00    FOE Briefing: Illegal GM Food
08 Feb 00    Farm Scale Trials       
08 Feb 00    Farm-scale trials of GM crops       
08 Feb 00    First GM seeds to be Added to the National Seed List- How Citizens Can Object.       
13 Jun 01    FOE Briefing: The Farm Scale Trial crops - GM maize, beet and oilseed rape
15 May 01    FOE Briefing: Genetically Modified Food and Crops: Our Right to a Local Referendum
19 Apr 01    FOE Briefing: Foot and Mouth Disease
19 Feb 01    FOE Briefing: NPRU's report on the separation distances required to ensure cross-pollination is below specified limits in non-seed crops of sugar beet, maize and oilseed rape       
20 Jul 01    FOE Briefing: Genetically Modified Crops and Food
20 Sep 01    FOE Briefing: Do we really know what pesticides are in our food?
25 May 01    FOE Briefing: Do we really know what pesticides are in our food?
26 Jul 01    FOE Briefing: Genetically Modified Crops and Food
30 Aug 01    FOE Briefing: Pesticides in Supermarket food
30 Aug 01    FOE Briefing: Pesticides in Supermarket food
01 Nov 97    Genetically engineered oilseed rape       
08 Feb 00    GMOs: The Case for a Moratorium       
08 Feb 00    Genetically Engineered Crops - Coming to a Farm Near You       
08 Feb 00    Genetically Modified Crops and Animal Feed       
08 Feb 00    Genetically Modified Food       
08 Feb 00    Genetically Modified Foods: the continuing debate       
08 Feb 00    Genetically modified foods: adding to the debate       
01 Nov 97    Public Opinion and Genetically Engineered Foods       
26 Jan 00    The Biosafety Protocol: the fight for the right to say *no* to GMOs.       
01 Jan 96    Weed Control on the Farm: Management of Genetically Modified Herbicide Resistant Crops: Response from Friends of the Earth       
08 Feb 00    Yes! We really Can Keep Genetic Engineering Out of Farming       

[Top] Atmosphere and Transport: Atmosphere and Transport

01 Jan 97    An Air Quality Public Information System for the United Kingdom: A Consultation Paper       
17 Feb 00    Cleaner Cars and Fuels       
01 Feb 01    FOE Briefing: Hastings bypasses: a destructive diversion
02 Nov 00    FOE Briefing: Green Fuel Tax
07 Feb 01    FOE Briefing: Hasting bypasses: a destructive diversion
09 Oct 01    FOE Briefing: Why Travelling by Rail is Better for the Environment       
10 Oct 00    FOE Briefing: Out of the Shadows - Northern Ireland's Railways
12 Oct 01    FOE Briefing: Why travelling by rail is better for the environment
01 Sep 97    Road, Transport, Air Pollution and Health       
01 Jan 97    Summertime Smog       
01 Dec 96    The Auto Oil Programme - The need for cleaner cars and fuels       
01 Jan 97    The United Kingdom National Air Quality Strategy - Comments From Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)       

[Top] Biodiversity and Habitats: Biodiversity and Habitats

13 Jun 01    FOE Briefing: Rio Tinto Threaten Aboriginal Homeland
15 May 01    FOE Briefing: US corporation still taking the peat
18 Oct 01    FOE Briefing: Balfour Beatty: WCD Resolution
19 Jun 01    FOE Briefing: Asia Pulp and Paper
25 Jun 01    FOE Briefing: Asia pulp and paper
09 Mar 00    It Could Happen Here: What The UK Must Do In The Wake Of The Erika Oilspill - A Briefing For MPs       
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01 Jan 96    The Environmental and Social Implications of Development Finance to Rutile Mining in Sierra Leone       
02 May 00    THE UK'S FOOTPRINT: THE UK TIMBER INDUSTRY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE WORLD'S FORESTS       
09 Mar 00    Totally Irresponsible: What The Insurance Industry Should Do In The Wake Of The Erika Oilspill       

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15 Feb 02    FOE Briefing: Barclays Finance of Rainforest Destruction

[Top] Energy: Climate Change

02 Oct 00    FOE Briefing: Come to the Hague - Build *The Dyke* with us!
02 Oct 00    FOE Briefing: Nuclear Power and Climate Change - Special Briefing (Oct 2000)
02 Oct 00    FOE Briefing: The Politics of Climate Change
02 Oct 00    FOE Briefing: The Science of Climate Change
10 Nov 00    FOE Briefing: THE HAGUE CLIMATE TALKS: All You Need to Know       
19 Jul 01    FOE Briefing: Bonn Media Briefing
20 Sep 00    Gathering Storm
11 May 99    Nuclear Power and Climate Change       
16 Sep 99    What's Happening to the Weather? Climate Change and Weather Extremes - 1998 Update       

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06 Sep 02    FOE Briefing: Climate change and the Earth Summit

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09 May 02    FOE Briefing: PREMIER OIL IN BURMA AND PAKISTAN       
16 Apr 02    FOE Briefing: AMEC and the Yusufeli Dam
16 May 02    FOE Briefing: Earth Summit - Frequently Asked Questions
16 May 02    FOE Briefing: Earth Summit - from Rio to Johannesburg
18 Jun 02    FOE Briefing: Challenging Corporations: A Guide to FOE's Corporates Campaign
18 Jun 02    FOE Briefing: Information for AMEC Shareholders (May, 2002 AGM)
18 Jun 02    FOE Briefing: UK Democracy Plc
19 Aug 02    FOE Briefing: Finance Initiatives for Sustainable Development
20 Feb 02    FOE Briefing: AMEC and the Yusufeli Dam
20 Feb 02    FOE Briefing: Import of illegal tropical timber to the UK
22 Nov 02    FOE Briefing: The corporate responsibility coalition
24 Apr 02    FOE Briefing: AMEC and the Yusufeli Dam
26 Nov 02    FOE Briefing: Prestige oil spill - Who fits the Bill?
30 Jul 02    FOE Briefing: Toward binding corporate accountability

[Top] Energy: Energy

28 Oct 99    BNFL: Commercial Drivers for Change       
05 Jul 99    Electricity generation from renewable energy       
16 Sep 99    Exxon, Texaco, and the Fossil Fuel Lobby       
01 Jun 97    Friends of the Earth International Climate Change Campaign Policy Position       
08 Mar 00    Flood Alert - Climate Change in the UK       
01 Jan 97    How Green is Your Regional Electricity Company?       
01 Jan 97    Lobbying for Lethargy - the Fossil Fuel Lobby and Climate Change Negotiations       
02 Jul 99    Nuclear Waste Management: Where Next?       
01 Jan 97    Potential Impacts of Climate Change       
01 Jun 97    Putting Costs into Perspective - Economic Benefits From Fighting Climate Change       
01 Jun 97    Reaping the Double Dividend - Climate Change and Jobs       
05 Jul 99    Reprocessing: The Choice Facing the Government       
01 Jan 97    Sceptics of Climate Change       
01 Jun 97    The G8 and Climate Change - Time to Set an Example       
16 Sep 99    The Green Energy League Table - Background Report       
24 Dec 97    Taxpayer Funding of Nuclear Liabilities       
28 Oct 99    THORP: The Case for Contract Renegotiation       
28 Oct 99    The Economics of the Sellafield MOX Plant       
17 Aug 00    Utility Bill - A summary       
01 Dec 97    What's Happening to the Weather? Climate Change and Weather Extremes       
16 Sep 99    Will Japan Save Reprocessing at Sellafield?       
16 Sep 99    Wind Power - Answers to some common questions       
16 Sep 99    Yankee Diddle Dandy? FOE Exposes Secret Plan to Dump US Nuclear Waste in Britain       

[Top] General: Ethical Investment

31 Jul 01    FOE Briefing: Top 100 UK pension funds - how ethical are they?
31 Oct 00    FOE Briefing: Investing in a Better Future (Revised Nov 2000)

[Top] General: Ecological Tax

01 Jun 97    Budget 1997: Friends of the Earth's Blueprint for a Green Budget       
21 Apr 98    BUDGET 98 Delivering on Commitments: Friends of the Earth's Fourth Blueprint for a Green Budget       
24 Apr 98    Friends of the Earth response to the consultation paper Economic Instruments for Water Pollution       
28 Aug 01    FOE Briefing: The Case for the Full Implementation of the Aggregates Levy in Northern Ireland       
28 Aug 01    FOE Briefing: The Case for the Full Implementation of the Aggregates Levy in Northern Ireland
28 Aug 01    FOE Briefing: The Case for the Full Implementation of the Aggregates Levy in Northern Ireland
01 Nov 96    Green Dividends: Why the Chancellor should invest in Eco-tax Reform       
11 Nov 99    *More Carrots - Fewer Sticks: Reinvesting Britain's Green Tax Revenues' Friends of the Earth*s Recommendations for Gordon Brown*s 1999-2000 Pre-Budget Statement.       

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07 May 02    FOE Briefing: League Table of UK Green Electricity Tariffs
10 May 02    FOE Briefing: League Table of UK Green Electricity Tariffs       
10 May 02    FOE Briefing: League Table of UK Green Electricity Tariffs
10 May 02    FOE Briefing: Nuclear Accidents and Terrorism
10 May 02    FOE Briefing: Nuclear Waste
24 Jun 02    FOE Briefing: Stop Global Warming - Why you should say yes to Renewable Energy (English)
24 Jun 02    FOE Briefing: Stop Global Warming - Why you should say yes to Renewable Energy (Welsh)

[Top] Biodiversity and Habitats: Forests

20 Oct 97    Briefing on the Bakun hydroelectric project in Malaysia       
04 Sep 01    FOE Briefing: European League Table of Imports of Illegal Tropical Timber
20 Oct 97    Forests and Climate Change       
21 Jun 01    FOE Briefing: Asia Pulp and Paper
01 Sep 97    Indonsian Forest Fires       
01 Aug 96    Mahogany briefing       
20 Oct 97    Out of the Woods- Reducing Wood Consumption to Save the World's Forests       
20 Oct 97    Paper to the Government Panel on Sustainable Development Forestry Prepared by Friends of the Earth, August 1995       
97    Seeing the Wood for the Trees. What the UK Timber Industry Doesn't Tell You About the World's Forests       
20 Oct 97    Sustainable Forestry in the UK - FOE's Paper to the Government Panel on Sustainable Development - Forests       
20 Oct 97    Sustainability and Logging In Canada's Forests       
20 Oct 97    Sustainability and the Trade in Tropical Rainforest Timber       
01 Jun 95    Timber: Eco-Labelling and Certification       
01 Nov 96    The Bakun HEP: Impacts on the Indigenous People       
01 Nov 96    The Bakun Hydro Electric Project - Malaysia       
20 Oct 97    The Environmental Consequences of Pulp and Paper Manufacture       

[Top] Biodiversity and Habitats: Habitats

06 Mar 97    Environmental assessment of drought orders and permits - Briefing sheet       
01 Jul 97    Going Under - UK Coastal Habitats Threatened by Sea Level Rise       
08 Mar 00    It Could Happen Here: What Must Happen In the Wake of the Erika Oil Spill       
01 Jul 97    Lost at Sea - Shoreline Management Plans and Coastal Defences       
17 Apr 98    Last Chance to See...? Lowland Raised Bog SSSI's Threatened by Commercial Peat Extraction       
20 Oct 97    The Environmental Threats of the Kielder Transfer Scheme       
01 Oct 95    Wildlife, Planning and Developments       
24 Apr 98    Wildlife Act 1998       

[Top] Industry and Pollution: Industry and Pollution

01 Sep 97    Fair Share in the Earth       
03 Jul 01    FOE Briefing: Pollution and Poverty - Breaking the Link
01 Apr 97    Gone to Blazes... Burning Hazardous Waste in Cement Kilns       
26 Jan 00    Greenhouse Gases and Waste Management Options       
20 Apr 98    Old News is Good News! Why make Newspapers from Recycled Paper.       
01 Apr 97    Paper recycling - Exposing the Myths       
25 Mar 97    TOXICS IN YOUR BACKYARD Your Right to Know about industrial pollution - a case study at Avonmouth       
18 Mar 98    Up In Smoke..Why Friends of the Earth opposes incineration       
01 Jul 97    What is Wrong with the Chemical Release Inventory The Fundamental Flaws - Briefing       
01 Jul 97    Why The Public Must Have a Right to Know - SPECIAL BRIEFING       

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10 May 02    FOE Briefing: Incineration and Health
20 Feb 02    FOE Briefing: Recycling: Can local authorities afford it?

[Top] General: Local Campaign Department

24 Apr 98    Opencast Coal Review of Planning Policy in England Response to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions Consultation Paper October 1997       
01 Jul 97    Terminal 5       
01 Jul 97    Terminal 5 Public Enquiry       

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01 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: GM free Welsh environment
05 Apr 02    FOE Briefing: How to influence regional waste strategies
05 Apr 02    FOE Briefing: Regional Transportation Strategy - Reverse Transport Spending
05 Mar 02    FOE Briefing: How to win at BMAP!
07 Mar 02    FOE Briefing: How to win at BMAP!
09 Jan 03    FOE Briefing: Putting justice at the heart of planning
11 Jul 02    FOE Briefing: Test
12 Jul 02    FOE Briefing: Sustainable regions: the only choice
15 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: Beginners guide to local authorities in England
16 May 02    FOE Briefing: Argymhelliad i Ddeuoli'r A40 San Cl*r-Hwlffordd
16 May 02    FOE Briefing: Proposed A40 St Clears-Haverfordwest Dualling
16 May 02    FOE Briefing: Trafnidiaeth Cymru yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain
16 May 02    FOE Briefing: Transport 21st Century Wales
18 Dec 02    FOE Briefing: Proposed Changes to the National List Written Representations and Hearings Procedures
18 Mar 02    FOE Briefing: How to win at BMAP!
18 Nov 02    FOE Briefing: National Assembly for Wales and GM crops: Five steps the Assembly must take to keep Wales GM Free
18 Sep 02    FOE Briefing: National Assembly for Wales Consultation on European Commission proposals on the thresholds for *Adventitious Presence* of Approved GMOs in Seeds
21 Nov 02    FOE Briefing: Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru a chnydau GM
22 Jan 02    FOE Briefing: Shaping the future of planning
24 Jan 02    FOE Briefing: Government shake-up to planning system: a threat to democracy and civil rights
24 Jun 02    FOE Briefing: Green Cross Code Election Campaign
24 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: Environmental issues and neighbourhood renewal
26 Sep 02    FOE Briefing: GM free Welsh environment
28 Feb 02    FOE Briefing: A vote for sustainable regions? View on elected regional assemblies
30 Sep 02    FOE Briefing: The EU Commission Proposal on the Thresholds for Adventitious Presence of Approved GMOs in Seeds - Summary

[Top] General: Oestrogenic Pollution

01 Jul 97    Friends of the Earth briefing sheet on the hormone disrupting effects of bisphenol-a       
21 Apr 98    Hormone disrupters: ICI and Akzo Nobel poisoning our rivers       
01 Jul 97    Oestrogenic Pollutants: The Case for a Ban       
01 Jul 97    The Effect of Environmental Oestrogens on Humans       
01 Jul 97    The Effect of Environmental Oestrogens on Wildlife       

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04 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: Pesticides in supermarket food
04 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: Seed purity
04 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: T25 Maize
06 Nov 02    FOE Briefing: Adventitious presence of GMOs in seed - EU proposals
07 Aug 02    FOE Briefing: Pesticides in Supermarket Food
07 Jan 02    FOE Briefing: Greening The Red Tractor
07 Nov 02    FOE Briefing: Economic impact of gm crops
07 Nov 02    FOE Briefing: GM crops and market forces
08 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: Liability and GM crops
09 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: Gene flow
10 Dec 02    FOE Briefing: GMO Deliberate Release Regulations for Discussion by ARD Committee on 30th October 2002
10 Dec 02    FOE Briefing: Genetically Modified Crops ARD Discussion 13 November 2002
10 Dec 02    FOE Briefing: Genetically Modified Crops ARD Discussion November 2002
10 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: The GM regulatory process
10 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: The farm scale trials
11 Jan 02    FOE Briefing: Do we really know what pesticides are in our food? Jan, 02 Update
11 Sep 02    FOE Briefing: The Pesticides in our Food
12 Mar 02    FOE Briefing: Into the Mouths of Babes: Pesticides in the diet and our children's health
12 Mar 02    FOE Briefing: Into the Mouths of Babes: Pesticides in the diet and our childrens' health
14 Mar 02    FOE Briefing: Creeping Contamination: GM foods and consumer choice
15 Feb 02    FOE Briefing: Pesticides in Supermarket food
15 May 02    FOE Briefing: Sheridan Seed Listing
16 Apr 02    FOE Briefing: Greening the Red Tractor
17 Dec 01    FOE Briefing: Vision Impaired - An Analysis of the DARD Vision Group Report
17 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: Herbicide use and GM crops
18 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: GM crops and food security
21 Jan 03    FOE Briefing: GM-Free Britain: Sticky Questions
24 Oct 02    FOE Briefing: GM food safety
30 Jul 02    FOE Briefing: Your right to object to GM crops

[Top] General: Sustainable Development

01 Oct 97    Energy and Environmental Space
05 Dec 00    FOE Briefing: Towards Sustainable Economies
10 Oct 00    FOE Briefing: Farmers Markets: action needed by local authorities
16 Jan 01    FOE Briefing: Pollution and Poverty - Breaking the Link
27 Mar 01    FOE Briefing: Pollution and Poverty - Breaking the link
28 Aug 01    FOE Briefing: Top 100 UK pension funds - how ethical are they?
26 Jan 00    Investing in a Better Future - Your Money and the Global Environment.       
01 Oct 97    Land and Environmental Space
01 Oct 97    Metal and Environmental Space
24 Apr 98    MAI The Multilateral Agreement on Investment. Opening the doors to corporate plunder?       
15 Feb 00    Quality of Life Counts - Where next?       
14 Oct 99    Regions and Sustainability:Making regional policy sustainable and sustainability regional - the key role of Regional Development Agencies       
01 Oct 97    Today's environmental and social crisis
08 Oct 99    The Ilisu Dam: A Definite Case for Export Credit Agency Reform       
12 Oct 99    *The Emperor Has No Clothes':Opposing Trade Liberalisation by stopping the Proposed *Millennium Round' Negotiations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)       
01 Mar 97    WORKING FUTURE? :A CAMPAIGN BRIEFING FOR FOE LOCAL GROUPS       
01 Oct 97    Water and Environmental Space
01 Oct 97    Wood and environmental space