Past press releases

2010

5 Jan -

Boiler scrappage scheme is pathetically small

5 Jan -

Conservative's plan to introduce a supermarket watchdog

5 Jan -

Government food vision serves up business as usual

6 Jan -

Government Chief Scientific Advisor's GM backing

8 Jan -

Green light for major offshore wind expansion in UK

11 Jan -

MPs urge government to increase carbon reduction target

13 Jan -

Government dithers on supermarket watchdog

14 Jan -

Green groups welcome proposals to allow greater access to environmental justice

19 Jan -

Select Committee call for higher recycling rates

22 Jan -

Legal warning to Government over energy policy statements

27 Jan -

Public back calls for more ambitious green electricity scheme for homes, businesses and communities

28 Jan -

Survey shows public concern over climate impacts of climate

28 Jan -

Report shows just four per cent of imported biofuels are environmentally sustainable

1 Feb -

Green electricity cash boost for homes and businesses - but overall ambition disappointing

3 Feb -

Ofgem calls for energy system reform

4 Feb -

Supermarket supply code of practice needs tough enforcement

8 Feb -

Environmental Audit Committee report 'nail in the coffin' for carbon trading

9 Feb -

India puts moratorium on GM crop

10 Feb -

World heading towards peak oil - energy crunch on par with financial crisis

12 Feb -

Gordon Brown to co-chair climate change funding panel

18 Feb -

Yvo de Boer resigns as Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC

18 Feb -

Belfast could experience annual flood misery by the end of the century

23 Feb -

Meat labelling code only addresses part of a bigger problem

1 Mar -

Fears over carbon emissions as IPC opens for business

4 Mar -

Tesco store rejected in Sheringham

11 Mar -

High-speed rail link announced

17 Mar -

ASA ruling on climate change adverts

19 Mar -

Conservative plans for a Green Investment Bank

22 Mar -

Darling must use Budget to boost jobs and cut bills

22 Mar -

James Orr becomes Director of Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland

23 Mar -

MPs call for reforms to energy planning policy

23 Mar -

MPs present meaty challenge to new Government

24 Mar -

Budget 2010: campaign victory as Chancellor sets up green bank

24 Mar -

Budget fails to tackle emissions from transport

25 Mar -

UK Government must buy planet-friendly British food

25 Mar -

Fall in UK greenhouse gas emissions

29 Mar -

700 wind energy jobs announced

31 Mar -

Government departments publish climate change plans

31 Mar -

Ed Miliband launches 'Beyond Copenhagen' plan - Friends of the Earth reaction

1 Apr -

Councils need Local Carbon Budgets not Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme

1 Apr -

Clean Energy Cash Back scheme launched

7 Apr -

World bank vote on South African coal power station - Friends of the Earth statement

8 Apr -

World Bank approves South African coal-fired power station

12 Apr -

Reaction to Labour manifesto

13 Apr -

Reaction to Conservative manifesto

14 Apr -

Reaction to Liberal Democrat manifesto

19 Apr -

Lib Dems announce green job plans

20 Apr -

Tesco announces record annual profits

23 Apr -

Election 2010: Conservative candidates slammed over climate commitment

26 Apr -

Liberal Democrats have greenest manifesto of main parties

26 Apr -

BASIC countries' environment ministers meeting concludes in South Africa

28 Apr -

Liberal Democrats and Conservatives promise bolder green electricity payment scheme

7 May -

Friends of the Earth welcomes first Green MP

10 May -

UN says we must tackle meat consumption to address global loss of biodiversity

12 May -

Low-carbon economy must be coalition focus

12 May -

Third runway plans for Heathrow scrapped

14 May -

Cameron promises greenest Government ever

17 May -

Government announces Emergency Budget

20 May -

Coalition blueprint for a greener Britain

21 May -

Blueprint for a greener future - the coalition's agreed policies

25 May -

Concern over green commitment in Queen's Speech

2 Jun -

Professor resigns from Food Standards Agency over public spending on GM

3 Jun -

London faces prosecution over dirty air

4 Jun -

UN climate talks in Bonn enter second week

4 Jun -

UN climate change talks in Bonn enter second week

7 Jun -

Bin tax scrapped

8 Jun -

Tesco chief to leave chain

8 Jun -

GM crop trials are a waste of taxpayers' money

9 Jun -

Rich country targets 'dangerously inadequate'

9 Jun -

Forestry emissions cuts plan 'risks unravelling climate action'

10 Jun -

'No role' for World Bank in managing climate funds - Friends of the Earth

11 Jun -

UN talks in Bonn close - Friends of the Earth reaction

14 Jun -

Friends of the Earth launches new website

15 Jun -

Two thirds want GM to be kept off their plate - new opinion poll

15 Jun -

Government announces waste stategy review

17 Jun -

A green budget could slash £9bn off UK debt this year

18 Jun -

Climate Committee warning over gas power stations

18 Jun -

Weekly bin collections not needed, Mr Pickles

22 Jun -

Government to consult on per-plane tax

22 Jun -

Budget should have been greener and fairer

24 Jun -

Home energy efficency programme must include rented sector

24 Jun -

MP spearheads new law for planet-friendly farming

29 Jun -

Green Investment Bank recommendations unveiled

30 Jun -

Government climate advisor calls for tougher action on emissions

5 Jul -

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5 Jul -

New Director of Fundraising, Communications and Activism at Friends of the Earth

7 Jul -

UEA climate scientists cleared

8 Jul -

Good news for councils as ban on selling green energy overturned

13 Jul -

Action needed on energy inefficient homes

13 Jul -

EU Commission plans to relax rules on GM crops in Europe

13 Jul -

London commute flooded by cows in call for rainforest-free food

15 Jul -

Goverment to re-consult on national planning statements

15 Jul -

Huhne calls for 30 per cent cut in EU emissions

16 Jul -

£34m cuts to low carbon technology will harm UK's economic recovery

19 Jul -

Oil company criticised for funding climate sceptic groups

19 Jul -

Climate Change Committee urges investment in low-carbon technology

21 Jul -

European businesses support EU move to 30 per cent emissions reduction target

21 Jul -

Feeding animals home-grown could save rainforest and wildlife the size of the Yorkshire Dales each year - new research

21 Jul -

Government to axe Sustainable Development Commission

26 Jul -

Huhne calls for increase in wind power

26 Jul -

Action not words needed to protect nature

27 Jul -

Huhne launches pathways to a greener 2050

27 Jul -

Councils key to meeting UK's green energy target, report warns

28 Jul -

Grants for low-carbon vehicles survive spending cuts but will be subject to review

29 Jul -

Government waste strategy must tackle recycling

29 Jul -

UK energy statistics released

30 Jul -

UN climate talks open in Bonn

3 Aug -

Government announces supermarket watchdog

4 Aug -

Food price rises highlight urgent need to tackle climate change

6 Aug -

UN climate talks conclude in Bonn

9 Aug -

Councils to sell green electricity back to the grid

13 Aug -

100 days of Government - and a long way to go

13 Aug -

Corus to invest in offshore wind

16 Aug -

Government drops environmental standard for coal power stations

17 Aug -

Green economy is only fair future for UK

20 Aug -

Earth Overshoot Day - a wake up call for consumption habits

23 Aug -

New Head of Fundraising starts at Friends of the Earth

23 Aug -

Spoof movie trailer launches competition for blockbuster stunt idea

31 Aug -

Craig Bennett joins Friends of the Earth as Director of Policy and Campaigns

31 Aug -

IPCC reform must not distract from urgent action on climate change

3 Sep -

Overhaul factory farming to protect farmers and consumers

3 Sep -

Bob Watson warns on embedded carbon emissions

8 Sep -

10th anniversary of fuel price protests - Government must fund green transport

8 Sep -

UK to meet 2010 landfill directive target - but we must recycle more

8 Sep -

World Bank report: demand for biofuels and animal feed is causing land grabs

10 Sep -

Committee on Climate Change urges Huhne to develop renewable energy

14 Sep -

50,000 new jobs could be created by recycling more - new research

16 Sep -

UK must prepare for climate impacts, expert advisor warns

16 Sep -

Government pledges £24 million electric car investment

16 Sep -

Government publishes carbon figures for local council areas

17 Sep -

UN Millennium Development Goals summit in New York

17 Sep -

'Protect tenants in cold homes', demand charities

17 Sep -

Supermarket faces excess packaging prosecution

21 Sep -

Huhne warned over green energy cash threat

21 Sep -

Challenge to coalition to make Huhne's green promises reality

22 Sep -

New Government fund for green local transport

23 Sep -

Statement on IPCC Chairmanship

23 Sep -

Retailers fail to reduce packaging waste

23 Sep -

World's largest offshore wind farm opens off Kent

24 Sep -

Committee on Climate Change recommends improvements to Carbon Reduction Commitment

25 Sep -

Ed Miliband must put environment at top of agenda

28 Sep -

Reaction to Ed Miliband's leadership speech

29 Sep -

Institute of Physics report on global emissions targets

30 Sep -

Alternative Nobel award for Friends of the Earth International chair

30 Sep -

David Cameron calls on Whitehall to cut energy use

1 Oct -

UN climate talks open in Tianjin, China

4 Oct -

High-speed rail route announced

4 Oct -

Conservative conference devotes day to 'green growth'

6 Oct -

No mention of climate change in Cameron's speech

7 Oct -

Scientists warn climate change will increase likelihood of crop failure

10 Oct -

Britons' meat-eating destroys Brazilian forest twice the size of London

11 Oct -

Chancellor urged to invest in green economy to cut deficit

14 Oct -

Over four million households still live in fuel poverty - latest figures

14 Oct -

Concern over green quango cuts

18 Oct -

UN biodiversity summit: world must act to protect wildlife and people

18 Oct -

Government paves way for new nuclear power but drops plans for Severn barrage

19 Oct -

Lower-meat diets could prevent 45,000 deaths annually

19 Oct -

Government could face legal challenge if feed in tariff payments cut

20 Oct -

Government cuts bus funding and increases rail fares

20 Oct -

Green response to spending review

21 Oct -

TV comics star alongside talking cow in farmyard farce

26 Oct -

Packaging recycling targets are a missed opportunity

27 Oct -

EU Council meets ahead of Cancun

28 Oct -

New regional funding announced

29 Oct -

Government to consult on sale of England's forests

2 Nov -

Plans to make landlords green their homes too weak

8 Nov -

Let us eat grass: cows graze outside parliament for rainforest-free food

8 Nov -

UK 'green' fuels will destroy an extra 1.6m ha of natural habitat by 2020

9 Nov -

World energy outlook grim without urgent climate action

11 Nov -

UK's top restaurants back Sustainable Livestock Bill

12 Nov -

MPs urged to back greener livestock law as meat waste impact is revealed

12 Nov -

Government fails to protect rainforests by rejecting new farming law

15 Nov -

Government to introduce 'happiness index'

18 Nov -

Residents in London City Airport legal challenge

18 Nov -

Europe plans greener farming policy

18 Nov -

Super-dairy plan resubmitted

19 Nov -

Peerage for former Friends of the Earth campaigner

19 Nov -

Government to publish winter death figures

23 Nov -

'Save lives by insulating homes', Government urged

23 Nov -

UNEP says emissions pledges not ambitious enough

30 Nov -

EU announces progress on fast-start climate financing

1 Dec -

Tighten screws on banks and world's richest to raise cash to fight climate change

3 Dec -

Government planning reform must lead to green, safe and prosperous future

3 Dec -

Government Energy Bill will leave millions out in the cold

3 Dec -

Secret Mexican text could damage fair UN climate agreement

3 Dec -

London climate change rally - world leaders must wake up to threat

7 Dec -

Climate advisor's call for radical decarbonisation of electricity sector welcomed

9 Dec -

World Bank's carbon trading fund is deeply disturbing

9 Dec -

Government's 'Green Deal' is cold comfort for millions of Brits

9 Dec -

Big freeze highlights problem of UK's cold homes

11 Dec -

Weak outcome to UN climate talks

13 Dec -

Localism Bill fails vital green test

15 Dec -

Government must seize once-in-a-generation chance to green UK electricity

16 Dec -

Dithering on climate action means bigger emissions cuts needed - new research

16 Dec -

Industry and commerce cut waste and recycle more - new figures

16 Dec -

Radical approach needed to secure green energy future

20 Dec -

High Speed Rail: Upgrading existing rail network should be priority

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