Manchester Friends of the Earth

Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions

“The reality and scale of the crisis means that small steps forward aren’t going to be enough... I won’t sugar-coat it – the consequences will be terrifying if words aren’t turned into action soon.” - Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some crackin' events coming up next week

Our calendar promotes events organised by @mcrfoe.bsky.social & other groups across GM relevant to our campaigns on biodiversity, climate change, just transition, nature, sustainable transport, waste & resources

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manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/

Influencing your Mayor on Climate & Nature - campaign skillshare (7pm, Wed 26 Nov)

With the Devolution Bill providing more powers to Mayors, join @friends-earth.bsky.social webinar to find out how you can influence your Mayor to take action on climate & nature

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/influencin...

What’s next for Planet Over Profit? Join us as we make the global local once again, and find out how you can host an event in your community that puts Planet Over Profit.

What’s next for Planet Over Profit? (7pm, Tues 25th Nov)

Join @friends-earth.bsky.social as we make the global local once again, and find out how you can host an event in your community that puts Planet Over Profit

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whats-next...

Make polluters worldwide pay for a greener future The world's most polluting companies are actively working to block climate action – all for the sake of profit. We've had enough. From extreme weather to energy and food prices, the climate emergency’...

Make big polluters, including oil and gas corporations, pay their fair share for the damage they cause.

Tax or fine them to help communities at home and around the world rebuild from climate disasters and invest in climate solutions

action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/dem...

History will remember what you decide today. Show courage, and add the roadmap to phase out coal, oil and gas – over 80 countries back it! #COP30

Update from inside COP30 - 20.11.25 This is "Update from inside COP30 - 20.11.25" by Friends of the Earth on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

As we're now in the final days of COP30, we want to share an update from @friends-earth.bsky.social CEO Asad Rehman on what's been happening and what is still to fight for in the negotiations ✊

vimeo.com/1138956412/6...

Our chief executive Asad Rehman met with the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, at the UN climate talks in Brazil. Knowing that Mr Guterres is inspired by young people, he presented zines that our amazing youth climate justice campaigners made.

Continues 👇

Tell Ed Miliband to stop blocking UN climate talks URGENT: The UK delegation is blocking plans to put fairness and justice at the heart of the UN climate talks. We must act now to change their minds. At the climate talks, countries have come together ...

Plans to protect people & the environment are on a knife edge at the UN climate talks

The UK govt must act now to back a fairer, more just future before it’s too late

Urge Ed Miliband to unblock UN climate talks
action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/urge-...

Friends of the Earth on Instagram: "From Belém in Brazil, to London, Manchester, Newcastle and beyond in the UK, we joined events across the world for the Global Day of Action for climate justice, mob... 101 likes, 4 comments - friends_earth on November 17, 2025: "From Belém in Brazil, to London, Manchester, Newcastle and beyond in the UK, we joined events across the world for the Global Day of Action...

From Belém in Brazil, to London, Manchester, Newcastle and beyond in the UK, we joined events across the world for the Global Day of Action for climate justice, mobilising with allies in the climate movement to stand up for a brighter future. ✊

www.instagram.com/reel/DRKmGai...

Email your MP. Amendment 130 would make sure the new planning systems works for, not against nature.demand they keep amendment 130 in the Bill It's now or never. This is the last chance to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Email your MP to keep amendment 130 in the Bill.

Help the Wildlife Trusts by asking your MP to keep Amendment 130* in the Planning & Infrastructure Bill

Without Amendment 130 the system presented in this new Bill will lead to the removal of protections for sensitive habitats and species.

action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...

Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes

Absolutely terrible news of another Indigenous land defender killed in Brazil as #COP30 takes place

- Vicente Fernandes Vilhalva, a 36-year-old Guarani Kaiowá leader, was shot dead on Sunday morning

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mayoral Scrutiny New forms of devolution need new forms of scrutiny

mySociety report: Mayoral Scrutiny-supporting an ecosystem of accountability organisations

Mayors & combined authorities are the future of devolution in England, but the ways in which citizens can understand, scrutinise or influence them remain unclear👇
research.mysociety.org/html/mayoral...

Help us demand that polluters pay by adding your name at the Linktree in our bio. You can read our full analysis of the plan there too.
#BigClimatePlan #climatecation #climatecrisis #fossilfuels

Is the government's new climate plan fit for purpose? We’ve pored over all 238 pages and compiled our expert analysis.

What we know for sure is that we need the government to go further and move faster. They can do so by making fossil fuel companies and the super-rich pay more for climate action.✊

TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre French legal complaint claims the firm paid and supplied soldiers who carried out mass killings first uncovered by POLITICO.

🔴 Breaking! TotalEnergies formally accused of complicity in war crimes and torture in Mozambique ⬇️

Read the full story here:

www.politico.eu/article/tota...

Exploring the climate plan: what’s in it and what’s next Join Friends of the Earth to explore the new climate plan, ask questions and find out what you can do next.

Exploring the climate plan: what’s in it and what’s next (6pm, Tues 18th Nov)

Join the @friends_earth webinar to explore the new climate plan, ask questions and find out what you can do next.

Book here👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

Urge Ed Miliband to unblock UN climate talks Plans to protect people and the environment are on a knife edge at the UN climate talks. The UK government must act now to back a fairer, more just future before it’s too late. The climate crisis is r...

Plans to protect people & the environment are on a knife edge at the UN climate talks

The UK govt must act now to back a fairer, more just future before it’s too late

Urge Ed Miliband to unblock UN climate talks

action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/urge-...

“We have long warned that the far right is growing bolder in its attempts to sow chaos, spread hate and divide our communities. Their anti-Muslim, anti-migrant and anti-climate agenda threatens us all. We cannot and must not accept incidents like this as the new normal"- A. Rehman, FoE. foe.uk/yutf2

Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues with anxiety growing over conference outcomes

#Cop30 live blog: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark

“Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

SIGN THE PETITION: #STOPTHECHOP AT BAKUN Defend the last remaining forests of Ulu Balui A massive commercial bamboo project is threatening to wipe out native forests in the Belaga region of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. On the banks of the Baku...

#STOPTHECHOP at Bakun - Defend the last remaining forests of Ulu Balui

A massive commercial bamboo project is threatening to wipe out native forests in the Belaga region of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

Sign the petition👇
borneoproject.org/stopthechopb...

Looking forward to hearing Heidi Chow (CEO Debt Justice) speak at the Climate Justice Rally in Manchester (Sat 15th Nov)

Cancelling debt for the world's poorest countries is crucial to tackling climate justice.

Assemble 1pm All Saints, Oxford Rd
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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

plenty going on:

@friends-earth.bsky.social national Big Climate Plan & Planet Over Profit campaigns

preparation for Afzal Khan MP COP30 constituency school event (Fri 14)

getting ready for the GM Climate Justice march & rally on Sat 15 Nov 👇
www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

All welcome

Join us for our Campaigns meeting (6pm, Tues 11th Nov) @Green Fish Resource Centre

6pm: guest speaker on Climate Emergency UK’s Climate Action Scorecards

then our regular campaigns meeting at 7pm...

more details 👇
www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30

‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster

- “Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP" says Simon Stiell

#COP30 #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Join the Global Day of Action! - This World Is Ours! Join the Global Day of Action On Saturday 15 November, we're coming together again for the Global Day of Action. Mobilising alongside our friends in the climate movement worldwide,...

Join us at one of the Global Day of Action events taking place this Sat 15 Nov. We'll be mobilising with allies in the climate movement across the country during the UN climate talks, to stand up for a brighter future for climate and nature.👇https://climatejustice.uk/cop30/global-day-of-action/

🌏Join the march & rally for Climate Justice

Hurricane Melissa demonstrates the huge threat from Climate Change to millions of people, but govts are putting fossil fuel companies profits before people's lives

Sat 15 Nov, 1pm, All Saints Pk, Oxford Rd
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www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...

Looking forward to hearing Heidi Chow (CEO Debt Justice) speak at the Climate Justice Rally in Manchester (Sat 15th Nov)

Cancelling debt for the world's poorest countries is crucial to tackling climate justice.

Assemble 1pm All Saints, Oxford Rd 👇
manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event...
#COP30