Friends of the Earth Europe
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| Type | Non-governmental organization |
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| Focus | Environmentalism, Sustainability and Human rights |
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Area served
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Global |
| Method | lobbying, research, direct action |
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Members
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31 national member groups |
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Key people
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Magda Stoczkiewicz (Director) David Heller Adrian Bebb Paul de Clerck Brook Riley |
| Website | foeeurope.org |
Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) is the European branch of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). It includes 31 national organisations and thousands of local groups.
The Friends of the Earth Europe office in Brussels fulfils a number of functions. It represents the network’s member groups towards the European institutions aiming to influence EU-policymaking; raises public awareness of environmental issues; campaigns for sustainable solutions for the most pressing environmental and social challenges threatening people and planet; runs capacity building projects for its membership, and is a secretariat for its 31 national members. The FoEE office is located in Mundo-B – a sustainable building housing Belgian and European NGOs near the European Parliament in Brussels.
The current campaign priorities of Friends of the Earth Europe are:
FoEE’s European Big Ask climate change campaign was launched in February 2008 following a successful campaign of the same name by Friends of the Earth in the UK which is widely credited with getting the UK government to introduce the Climate Change Bill. The Big Ask brings together FoEE member groups across Europe to campaign for national climate change legislation. The launch of the European Big Ask was supported by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and the European Environment Commissioner at the time, Stavros Dimas. The campaign has different names in different countries.
FoEE also campaigns for the EU to introduce emission reduction targets of at least 40% by 2020. The organisation calls for radical improvements in energy efficiency, an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels, a dramatic shift towards community-owned renewable energies, and reduced overall resource consumption and lifestyle changes.
As part of its campaign for sustainable food and agriculture, the organisation has been a key participant in the European debate on GMOs since 2000, founding the GMO-Free Europe movement in 2006 to prevent new GMOs from being planted in each region of Europe. Today, the organisation is campaigning to prevent the European Union from authorising new GMO crop varieties for commercial growing, and to prevent GMO seeds from contaminating non-GMO fields and supply chains in Europe.
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