27/09/18
Save the Hambach Forest – stop coal mining!
Hambach Forest in Germany’s Rhineland is 10,000 years old. But it is under massive threat from German energy giant RWE, which wants to destroy the las …
![Hambach Forest at threat](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/hambacher-wald-retten-stattb_0-800x600.jpg)
09/08/18
Keeping cool in a warmer world
In this blog for GreenWorld, climate justice and energy campaigner Clémence Hutin writes about the significance of Europe’s heatwave of 2018, and how …
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03/07/18
Battle to resist fracking in UK heats up in Lancashire
For the past 7 years, residents of Lancashire in North West England, supported by allies from across the UK and Europe, have led a remarkable campaign …
![Fracking protests as Preston New Road Lancashire](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_2020.jpg)
19/06/18
EU deal on energy efficiency lets down climate and energy-poor
A deal struck today on the EU’s energy efficiency target for 2030, after a year and a half of negotiations, will let down the climate and Europe’s ene …
![Heat homes not the planet - energy poverty](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rs1025_p021-00119_-_copy-800x600.jpg)
14/06/18
EU concludes inadequate deal on future renewable energy
But citizens will surpass bleak expectations of new target. EU decision makers have concluded an inadequate deal to govern Europe’s future renewable e …
![People's windmill](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/energy-scaled-800x600.jpg)
06/06/18
Future EU budget leaves open loopholes for fossil fuel subsidies
The European Commission today set out spending plans that could further lock Europe into a fossil fuel future well into the next decade, in proposals …
![Action against the STEP gas pipeline, (C) Amis de la Terre France](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/gasaction.png)