Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International (German: Friends of the Earth ) is an international consortium of environmental organizations . In 2011 the organization had over two million members and supporters in 76 countries. Only one organization per country can be a member of the association. From Germany this is the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND), from Austria Global 2000 and from Switzerland Pro Natura .
FoE was founded in 1971 by four organizations from France, Sweden, the USA and England. The office of the secretariat is in Amsterdam (Netherlands). FoE is headed by an “Executive Committee”. This executive board is elected every two years by the general assembly.
The common basis of all member organizations is independence from political parties and economic interests, environmental protection work at both local and national level and a democratic structure.
Activities and campaigns
The association examines environmental issues in their social and political environment as well as their impact on human rights. Their campaigns go beyond the traditional field of environmental protection and include sustainability in business and business development .
The following priority international campaigns currently exist:
- Economic sustainability and resistance to neoliberalism
- Forest and biodiversity
- Food sovereignty
- Climate justice and energy
These prioritized campaigns are decided at a twice-yearly meeting of Friends of the Earth International.
The following international campaigns also exist:
- Desertification
- Antarctica
- water
- Oceans
- Mining
- Nuclear energy (see: anti-nuclear movement )
- Meat consumption and intensive animal husbandry (see: Meat Atlas )
FoE Europe
Friends of the Earth Europe is responsible for coordinating the member organizations across Europe. FoE Europe runs Europe-wide campaigns and lobbies in Brussels . In July 2007 the youth association Young Friends of the Earth Europe was founded .
According to a report by Siim Kallas , Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Administration, Audit and Fraud Prevention from 2004 to 2010, FoE Europe received European funding totaling 635,000 euros in 2006 - more than half of the total income. Anja Leetz, a spokeswoman for FoE Europe, said, according to a report in the newspaper Die Welt , the independence of the organization was not affected.
Lobbycontrol operates the LobbyFacts portal together with Corporate Europe Observatory and Lobbycontrol . There, the data from the EU transparency register on lobbying activities by companies , associations , agencies and non-governmental organizations are made available in an understandable manner.
Member organizations
Africa
- Center pour l'Environnement et le Development (CED) (Friends of the Earth - Cameroon)
- Friends of the Earth - Ghana
- Friends of the Earth - Liberia / Sustainable Development Institute (SDI)
- Friends of the Earth - Mali / Guamina
- Friends of the Earth - Mozambique - Justica Ambiental (YES!)
- Environmental Rights Action (FOE Nigeria)
- Friends of the Earth - South Africa / groundWork
- Friends of the Earth - Tanzania / Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT)
- Les Amis de la Terre - Togo
- NAPE - Uganda
Asia or the Middle East
- Indonesian Forum for Environment, Indonesia
- Korean Federation of Environmental Movements
- Friends of the Earth - Jordan , Palestine and Israel
- Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Philippines
- Friends of the Earth - Japan
Europe
- Friends of the Earth - Europe (Brussels, Belgium)
- Young Friends of the Earth - Europe (Brussels, Belgium)
- Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany , Germany
- Friends of the Earth - England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EWNI)
- Friends of the Earth - Finland [1]
- Friends of the Earth - France
- Green Action, Croatia
- Friends of the Earth - Malta [2]
- Milieudefensie, Netherlands
- Norges Naturvernforbund , Norway
- GLOBAL 2000 , Austria
- Friends of the Earth - Scotland
- Pro Natura , Switzerland
- Priatelia Zeme Slovensko / Friends of the Earth - Slovakia [3]
- Friends of the Earth - Spain
- Friends of the Earth - Ibiza [4]
- Hnutí DUHA, Czech Republic
- Magyar Természetvédok Szövetsége / Friends of the Earth - Hungary [5]
North America
- Friends of the Earth - Canada
- Les AmiEs de la Terre de Quebec , Canada
- Friends of the Earth - USA
South America
Oceania
Web links
- Friends of the Earth International (English)
- Young Friends of the Earth Europe (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ foei.org ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (January 19, 2011)
- ↑ http://www.foei.org/about-foei/history
- ↑ a b Home - Friends of the earth international (English) . Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
- ^ "Where do we go from Wyhl?" Transnational anti-nuclear protest targeting European and international organizations in the 1970s . Retrieved May 25, 2016.
- ^ Thomas Deichmann: Money from Brussels for lobbying against climate change and green genetic engineering: EU finances environmental groups. Die Welt, August 27, 2007, accessed June 5, 2015
- ↑ Hard facts on Europe's biggest lobbyists revealed for the first time. Corporate Europe Observatory, September 30, 2014, accessed September 19, 2018 .
