Deforestation lining UK financiers’ pockets, report warns Analysis of hundreds of thousands of deals with major deforestation-linked companies netted lenders, investors and insurers $26bn from financing deforestation-related activity www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/defores...

Our world’s forests are under threat, worsening climate change, biodiversity loss & threatening vulnerable communities This year’s UN climate talks – hosted in the Amazon – are our chance to act Sign the open letter 👇 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/def...

Manchester Friends of the Earth campaigns meeting (6pm, Tues 14 Oct) @GreenFishRC plenty going on: ‘Right to a Healthy Environment' campaign, national Big Climate Plan, Planet Over Profit + our local climate & transport campaigns All welcome See👇 manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

We knew it would be bad 😐 The EPP's strong-arming worked, the bad compromise has passed, and with it any hope that corporate accountability might have been saved by the resistance of other MEPs 😑 Now it's on to the plenary next Thursday. Keeping our eyes peeled 👀 #CSDDD

Manchester Friends of the Earth campaigns meeting (6pm, Tues 14 Oct) @GreenFishRC plenty going on: ‘Right to a Healthy Environment' campaign, national Big Climate Plan, Planet Over Profit + our local climate & transport campaigns All welcome See👇 www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

Your Home Better advice & information session about home retrofits (6.30pm, Weds 8 Oct) Join @foemcr & Your Home Better CIC for a free session - making your home more energy efficient, cost effective, comfortable & reducing your carbon emissions actionnetwork.org/events/frien...

The Climate Change Act is vital for protecting people & planet. @KemiBadenoch - don’t roll it back. Weakening or scrapping it would be a disaster. We need stronger climate action, not less. We have been talking & leafleting your conference delegates

Your Home Better advice & information session about home retrofits (6.30pm, Weds 8 Oct) Join @foemcr& Your Home Better CIC for a free session - making your home more energy efficient, cost effective, comfortable & reducing your carbon emissions actionnetwork.org/events/frien...

Kemi Badenoch’s plan to replace the Climate Change Act is anti-science, anti-business & turns its back on those at the sharp end of climate breakdown now & future generations friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/repl...

Your Home Better advice & information session about home retrofits (6.30pm, Weds 8 Oct) Join @foemcr & Your Home Better CIC for a free session - making your home more energy efficient, cost effective, comfortable & reducing your carbon emissions actionnetwork.org/events/frien...

Mapped: The areas threatened by Reform’s controversial pro-fracking agenda revealed New analysis identifies parliamentary areas that could be vulnerable to development for fracking if Nigel Farage’s party were to get into government 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Manchester synagogue attack– Friends of the Earth statement “Friends of the Earth condemns the appalling attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester which has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in the Jewish faith" Full statement👇 manchesterfoe.org.uk/blog/manches...

Reform's pro-fracking agenda threatening 180 constituencies All 27 Greater Manchester constituencies are partially or totally within areas the British Geological Society has labelled “Shale Prospective Areas”. @bbcnwt.bsky.social @manchestereveningnews.co.uk friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/refo...

UK companies cause harm in their global supply chains. For them it’s “just business”. But we call it injustice. We joined Action Aid UK and Fairtrade UK at Labour party conference calling for action. Sign👇 https://action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/make-corporate-harm-not-just-business

Friends of the Earth local action groups meet-up - online (6.30pm, Weds 1st Oct) Join @friends-earth.bsky.social activists from across the North at our regular online call. We'll be sharing grassroots news & planning for COP30. More details 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...

Planet, Profit & People – Who Pays the Price for Corporate Harms? (3.15pm, Sun 28 Sept - Liverpool) Join @friends-earth.bsky.social , Corporate Justice Coalition, Fairtrade & Action Aid to make the case for a new Business, Human Rights & Environment law. manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

Pop along and visit us at the VON Abundance Festival Manchester (11-5pm Sat 26 Sept) @ Hulme Community Garden Centre 🎤 TALKS 🛠️ WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES 🎶 PERFORMANCE & MUSIC 🍰 FOOD & CAKE STALLS More info👇 manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the #climatecrisis - Guardian readers who are part of the 89% of the population who want to see climate action tell us their ideas on how to make their voices heard #89percent www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We were many in Brussels on Tues to remind @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and her commission that we don't need no 🎶 D E R E G U L A T I O N 🎶 We want them to honour European values such as caring for social justice, equality, human rights and the environment. 👀 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...

Introducing Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth’s new Chief Executive Asad joins us from anti-poverty & social justice organisation War on Want but previously worked at @friends-earth.bsky.social for over a decade, most notably leading our international climate work 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducin...

Northern Friends of the Earth local action groups meet-up - online (6.30pm, Weds 1st Oct) Join @friends-earth.bsky.social activists from across the North at our regular online call. We'll be sharing grassroots news & planning for COP30. More details 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...

Your Home Better advice & information session about home retrofits (6.30pm, Weds 8 Oct) Join @mcrfoe.bsky.social & Your Home Better CIC for a free session - making your home more energy efficient, cost effective, comfortable & reducing your carbon emissions actionnetwork.org/events/frien...

Join @friends-earth.bsky.social at the Make Them Pay demonstration in London (Sat 20th Sept) FoE meeting point: 11.45am at Cavendish Square Gardens, London. Look out for our Friends of the Earth banners and t-shirts See makethempay.org.uk

The government is currently drawing up National Highways’ next 5-year budget (RIS3). This the perfect time to let them know how important it is that funding is prioritised to stop water pollution from road runoff.

New research reveals that climate change increased the intensity and probability of all the 213 heatwaves recorded for the 21st century. It also states that a quarter of the heatwaves would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused global warming. www.carbonbrief.org/study-links-...

We need a new bold, fair & fully funded plan to tackle the climate crisis But where will the money come from? And how can we make sure that the costs don’t fall on those least able to pay? See👇 friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/taxi...

PROTEST – Greater Manchester Pension Fund goes for COAL! (9am, Friday 12 Sep) Join Fossil Free Greater Manchester outside GMPF offices to protest the funds decision to increase investments in the most polluting fossil fuel.... COAL! Latest details: facebook.com/events/74760...

It's five years since the UK government vowed to protect 30% of our land and seas by 2030, and progress has been dismal. So-called protected areas are spoiled by sewage, industrial contamination and destructive development – pushing wildlife into freefall. www.the-independent.com/climate-chan...

🚨With 50 days left until the government's deadline for a new climate plan, we handed in our almost 40k strong petition calling for a bold and fair climate plan to Downing Street, joined by our local groups, @disrightsuk.bsky.social and MPs Abtisam Mohamed, Carla Denyer and Pippa Heylings.

Join us on Weds for a social ride (instead of our August transport meeting) We’re going to tour all the new (piloted) cycle hangers around Mcr and then head to Station South for a drink Meet in Railton Ave, Whalley Range ready to leave at 6pm Details www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

Some great events coming up in the next few weeks.... Sign up to our weekly what's on 'digest' email bit.ly/mfoe-email-l... and check out the events calendar manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/

Local action can help us tackle the climate crisis & build a fairer future with cleaner air, warm homes, lower energy bills & green jobs Local leaders need the powers, duties & funding to make it happen Ask your Mayor to sign the Big Climate Plan pledge action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/tell-...

This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like in the UK. Filmed for @mancgreenpeace.bsky.social last weekend at #WoodheadReservoir in #Derbyshire. @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social @desmog.com @mcrfoe.bsky.social

🚨 The clock is ticking... It’s 100 days before the UK government must deliver a new climate plan. With the Met Office saying that extreme weather is now the UK’s new normal, we can’t afford any more weak promises from those in power. And we’re not the only ones who agree...

We joined @friends-earth.bsky.social, @cprecountryside.bsky.social and many others for a mass lobby calling on MPs to demand the government act now for climate and nature. We met with @jeffsmithmp.bsky.social who promised to take action for a bold and fair climate plan.👏#ActNowChangeForever

If anyone is free next Wednesday lunchtime, this should be an interesting discussion on what councils can do to accelerate local climate action at @manchester.ac.uk Business School: www.policy.manchester.ac.uk/gm-policy-hu...

Looking forward to our stall at the @manmetuni.bsky.social sustainability festival on Friday! Find out more about the event and book your place at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1301122174...

People of Manchester support a new law for fairer supply chains! ✊ Show your support for holding UK companies to account for exploitation in their supply chains by signing our petition #PlanetOverProfit ✍️ action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/mak...

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Manchester Friends of the Earth – Campaigns meeting (6.30pm, Tues 15th April). Join us to make materials for the Rainforest Lifelines ceremony event which will be led by Indigenous Sarawak leaders @McrMuseum For details👇 manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

The chocolate industry’s good and bad eggs revealed How does your favourite chocolate score? pan-uk.org/the-chocolat...

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Manchester City encourages fans to cycle to home matches in collaboration with Love To Ride Log your bike rides to home games in the Love To Ride app to climb the leaderboard and be in with the chance of winning a squad-signed Manchester City shirt. mancity.com/news/club/cy...

Defending Rainforests, Defending Rights: Voices from Sarawak - a visit by Borneo’s Indigenous Rainforest Protectors to Manchester. 3pm, Saturday 26th April @ Friends Meeting House, Manchester Book your place👇 actionnetwork.org/events/defen...

'It's like having a belt around your chest - it's like a slow suffocation' according to Asthma + Lung UK, Manchester and Salford still have some of the highest levels of emergency admissions and deaths linked to lung conditions in the UK www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Ministers lose appeal against Yorkshire anglers’ river pollution ruling "The judge in the high court found that the government had unlawfully failed to assess and identify specific measures to achieve the legally mandatory targets for the waterbody." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"U.K. lawmakers have spent the last four years delaying the implementation of “forest risk” regulations on imported commodities like beef, soy, palm oil, cocoa, coffee and rubber." @globalwitness.org news.mongabay.com/2025/03/uk-d...

"The damage done by a vehicle to a road surface is proportional to the fourth power of its axle weight. A two-tonne SUV therefore does 16 times more damage than a one-tonne car." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We deserve a greener, fairer future. A future where families aren’t struggling just for the basics, where everyone has access to warm homes, cheap energy & reliable public transport If you agree, add your voice now action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/dem...