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FoE throughout the world |
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| In 1971, the American environmental activist David Brower advocated the establishment of an international network for the protection of the environment. That was the beginning of Friends of the Earth (FoE). In answer to his call, European and American NGOs came together to create FoE International (FoEI). |
| Later, in view of the global environmental degradation, developing countries and former communist countries have joined one after another, so that now FoE in accordance with its basic philosophy has become a network unbiased by the developed nations. At present, the network has grown to count one million supporters in 68 countries, with Amsterdam as the international stronghold. We are also one of the NGOs formally acknowledged by the UN. |
| While the member groups in each country are acting as independent organizations, we take collective action on global issues like deforestation, global warming or the debt burden of developing countries. |
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July 2001: The FoE 'Ark Action' at the Global Warming Conference in Bonn, Germany. |
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