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Friends of the Earth
Corporate & Investment
The corporate and investment programme is working to roll back corporate power by campaigning for global binding regulation on multinational corporations, exposing corporate excesses, working to promote ethical and environmental standards in investment by pension and insurance funds and lobbying for supporting reforms of UK company law, including mandatory environmental and social reporting.
Climate & Transport
The Climate & Transport team has five priorities:
* Securing an international climate agreement, based on the principle that no country should emit more than its fair share of greenhouse gases, that doesn't promote nuclear power or the destruction of natural forests.
* Holding the UK Government to its promise to cut CO2 emissions by 20% by 2010, and paving the way for further cuts in CO2 emissions.
* Raising public awareness about the impacts of climate change on the UK.
* Making sure businesses play their part in delivering cuts in CO2 emissions.
* Getting the integrated transport policy back on track by ensuring investment in public transport is prioritised over road-building and that 76 % of new homes get built in urban areas.
Waste
A new Waste Project Group has been set up to contribute to FOE's work on waste over the coming year. This will include influencing key regional waste strategies and local development plans, and supporting incinerator site battles. Now that the Tories and Liberal-Democrats have produced promising policies on waste, we will also focus on the forthcoming general election, and try to make waste a local election issue in key constituencies.
Real Food
The Real Food campaign challenges the current system of producing food and calls for one that revitalises rural communities, supports and enhances biodiversity, and produces food safe for consumption. The campaign calls for sustainable farming that does not rely on agrochemicals or genetically engineered products. The Real Food Campaign focuses on pesticide reduction, genetically engineered crops and factory farming, as well as supporting local food campaigns.
Toxics
The Toxics campaign is focused on protecting people's health through:
* The Safer Chemicals campaign works to ensure that people know how to avoid dodgy chemicals and to empower them to help us change legislation on chemicals so that the chemicals used in everyday products are as safe as possible.
* The Factory Watch campaign. which exposes polluters and gives communities information and advice to fight for less health-threatening pollution.
Living World
The Living World campaign focuses on protecting people and biodiversity across the world:
* Now the Countryside Bill campaign has been so successful, there isn't an ongoing UK Wildlife Legislation focus.
* Corporate Alert: protecting people and biodiversity threatened by the activities of multinational corporations.
* Forests: protecting the world's forests and the biodiversity they support.
Trade
The trade programme works with other FOE International groups to expose the negative impacts of trade liberalisation, oppose further liberalisation by the World Trade Organisation and to propose and promote alternative equitable and environmentally sustainable approaches to trade.