The
organization GLOBAL 2000 also referred to as Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an
international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries founded in
1969 as an anti-nuclear group by Robert
O Anderson who contributed $200,000 in personal funds with David Brower,
Donald Aitken and Jerry Mander after Brower’s split with the Sierra Club. In
1971, it became an international network in a meeting of representatives from
the U.S., Sweden, the UK and France. The organization is funded by Ford
Foundation, V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation and the Wallace Global Fund. The main mission was to lock up and prevent further
development of nuclear energy.
organization GLOBAL 2000 also referred to as Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an
international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries founded in
1969 as an anti-nuclear group by Robert
O Anderson who contributed $200,000 in personal funds with David Brower,
Donald Aitken and Jerry Mander after Brower’s split with the Sierra Club. In
1971, it became an international network in a meeting of representatives from
the U.S., Sweden, the UK and France. The organization is funded by Ford
Foundation, V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation and the Wallace Global Fund. The main mission was to lock up and prevent further
development of nuclear energy.
They
goal encompass various way to protect the environment. Their campaigns stretch
beyond the traditional arena of the conservation
movement and seek to address the economic
and development
aspects of sustainability. Originally
based largely in North America
and Europe, its membership is now heavily weighted toward
groups in the developing world.
GLOBAL 2000 consider environmental issues in their social, political and human
rights contexts.
goal encompass various way to protect the environment. Their campaigns stretch
beyond the traditional arena of the conservation
movement and seek to address the economic
and development
aspects of sustainability. Originally
based largely in North America
and Europe, its membership is now heavily weighted toward
groups in the developing world.
GLOBAL 2000 consider environmental issues in their social, political and human
rights contexts.
The executive committee of elected
representatives from national groups sets policy and oversees the work of the
secretariat. GLOBAL 2000 has its secretariat in Amsterdam, Netherlands
which provides support for the network and its agreed major campaigns. Nnimmo Bassey,
Nigerian activist, was elected to serve as chair of Friends of the Earth
International in 2010.
representatives from national groups sets policy and oversees the work of the
secretariat. GLOBAL 2000 has its secretariat in Amsterdam, Netherlands
which provides support for the network and its agreed major campaigns. Nnimmo Bassey,
Nigerian activist, was elected to serve as chair of Friends of the Earth
International in 2010.
