Planting more trees can help cut pesticide use
Sandra Bell17 Dec 2019
Planting trees on farms can help reduce pests and diseases and cut the need for chemicals.
Balancing UK Land Use: A Guide to Friends of the Earth’s UK Land Calculator
27 Nov 20191.14 MB PDF fileDirect download
Friends of the Earth has produced a UK Land Use Calculator (referred to below as ‘The Calculator’) that illustrates the issues involved in these questions. This web based graphical tool provides a user friendly way to experiment with choices for future UK land use, and to visualise the nature and scale of their consequences
Balancing UK Land Use: Friends of the Earth’s Illustrative Land Use Scenario
27 Nov 2019847 kB PDF fileDirect download
Friends of the Earth has produced a UK Land Use Calculator. The purpose of the Calculator is to illustrate some of the issues that will affect UK land use over the next 15 years, and to encourage discussion and exploration of these issues. Ultimately such discussion should inform important policy decisions that affect land use in the UK
Transforming transport funding to meet our climate targets
Lynn Sloman and Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life04 Nov 2019
Money shouldn't be a barrier to providing brilliant public transport and cycling infrastructure. This briefing outlines the many sources of funding used overseas and makes recommendations for the UK.
A pillar of justice: the impact of legislative reform on access to justice
01 Nov 2019790 kB PDF fileDirect download
Our new report reveals how changes to the law are making it more difficult to stop environmental destruction.
Our 2019 General Election manifesto
31 Oct 2019
Friends of the Earth will assess the 2019 political party General Election manifestos based on 10 demands, ranging from policies on aviation to improvements in democracy.
A radical transport response to the climate emergency
Lynn Sloman and Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life26 Oct 2019
Transport is now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK and emissions are rising. This briefing outlines far-reaching changes to deliver the reductions needed and ensure a decent transport system that works for everyone.
An Eco Levy for driving: cut carbon, clean up toxic air and make our towns and cities liveable
Lynn Sloman and Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life23 Oct 2019
This briefing identifies why road pricing is necessary to reduce traffic levels and how using the funds raised to support public transport is critical to its success.
Ending plastic pollution – briefing
02 Sep 2019
Find out what the role of government should be in tackling the plastic crisis.
Letter to the Chancellor on the 2019 Spending Review
02 Sep 2019118 kB PDF file
A letter to the Chancellor by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and others ahead of the 2019 Spending Review
Government spending needed on climate and nature emergency
02 Sep 20193.2 MB PDF file
Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and others have identified that the government needs to spend £42 billion a year on climate change and nature.
Driving pesticide reduction – why the government must set ambitious targets
Sandra Bell28 Aug 2019
Will the UK government step up action on pesticides reduction in response to the current ecological crisis?
A net zero carbon budget for the whole transport sector
Lisa Hopkinson and Lynn Sloman, Transport for Quality of Life27 Jun 2019
Analysis shows Department for Transport plans will cause UK to breach carbon budgets; radical new plan needed to cut aviation and road transport carbon by 2030
Finding the land to double tree cover
Guy Shrubsole with research by Chris Gordon-Smith18 Jun 2019
Is there really space in the UK to double tree cover? And where’s best to grow all those trees?
There’s something wrong in the countryside: rising pesticide use in the UK
05 Jun 2019
A close look at pesticide use reveals we’re treating crops more frequently and with a greater variety of chemicals than ever before – it’s time to reverse this trend and put the UK onto a trajectory of pesticide reduction.