NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark

NOAH is a grassroots organisation founded in 1969. Their main national campaigns concern transportation, dioxins and biotechnology.

NOAH participates in Friends of the Earth Europe network wide campaigns – including the European campaign to halt GM pollution and the New Local Partners for Sustainability. They continue to work on the Sustainable Europe and Environmental Space concepts.

NOAH publish a quarterly magazine and two or three books in Danish each year.

www.noah.dk

Noerrebrogade 39,

1.Tv,

2200 Copenhagen

+ 45 3536 1212
fax: + 45 3536 1217

For enquiries please contact:

Member group news

18 May 2013

Asking for better waste management for Europe

Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Hungary

3 May 2013

Uranium mining fears in arctic region

Denmark

- Agrofuels
  Plant-based fuels from agriculture. Also known as biofuels
- Climate justice
  Genuine, just solutions to climate change
- Energy savings
  Energy efficiency and its benefits
- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Renewable energy
  Clean alternatives to fossil fuels
- Shale gas
  Unconventional gas and the extraction process known as ‘fracking’
- Sustainable EU funds
  EU Structural and Cohesion funds, principally for central and eastern Europe
- Tar sands
  Unconventional oil. Also known as oil sands
- The Big Ask
  European climate campaign for annual emissions cuts

- Conflicts of interest
  Differing and competing interests in the EU institutions
- Corporate accountability
  Making companies accountable for harm they cause anywhere in the world
- Corporate capture
  When EU and international policy-making is overly influenced by business and interest groups
- Greenwashing
  Company advertising at odds with real environmental impacts
- Lobby transparency
  Lobby registration, ethical practice, and access to documents

- Banking regulation
  Getting banks to take responsibility for social and environmental risks
- EU Budget
  How EU money can be better spent
- Food speculation
  Betting on foodstuffs, and how to regulate it
- Sustainable EU funds
  EU Structural and Cohesion funds, principally for central and eastern Europe

- Agriculture
  Food and farming in Europe and its global impacts
- Agrofuels
  Plant-based fuels from agriculture. Also known as biofuels
- Biodiversity
  Species and habitat protection in Europe and around the globe
- Food sovereignty
  The right to define sustainable and just food policies
- Food speculation
  Betting on foodstuffs, and how to regulate it
- GMOs
  Genetically modified crops and organisms
- Land
  Measuring Europe’s land footprint and tackling the drivers of land grabbing

- Biodiversity
  Species and habitat protection in Europe and around the globe
- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Land
  Measuring Europe’s land footprint and tackling the drivers of land grabbing
- Materials and waste
  Reducing, reusing and recycling resources
- Resource use
  Europe’s consumption of land, materials, water and carbon
- Shale gas
  Unconventional gas and the extraction process known as ‘fracking’
- Tar sands
  Unconventional oil. Also known as oil sands
- Water use
  Measuring Europe’s water footprint

Friends of the Earth Europe

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