Our funding

For the financial year 2012, Friends of the Earth Europe gratefully acknowledges funding from:

EU Commission Directorate General (DG) Environment; DG Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid; Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA); European Climate Foundation; James M. Goldsmith Foundation; Isvara Foundation; David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Tides Foundation; New Venture Fund; Attac Germany; Grassroots Foundation and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Thanks also to Friends of the Earth Europe national member groups and Friends of the Earth International.

The contents of this website are the sole responsibility of Friends of the Earth Europe and cannot be regarded as reflecting the position of the funder mentioned above. The funder cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information that appears on this website.

Friends of the Earth Europe's entry in the Transparency Register can be found here.

Full copies of Friends of the Earth Europe's accounts are available from the Belgian National Bank at www.nbb.be
Quote company number 0443.252.089

Full financial information for 2011 can be found on page 14 of our Annual Review

- 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

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