In collaboration, three local NGOs – Rota, Friends of the Earth Malta, and Moviment Graffitti – have prepared the below response to the National Cycling Strategy consultation document. While the document contains several good measures, the scope and depth of the document is not proportional to the years spent working on developing a National Cycling...
Corruption, assassination, and environmental destruction are keywords associated with the Electrogas power station and the Melita TransGas pipeline that Malta Government is proposing. Friends of the Earth Malta and The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation have launched a video as part of their campaign opposing the pipeline project. It uncovers the unsettling reality of the Electrogas...
In collaboration, three local NGOs – Rota, Moviment Graffitti and Friends of the Earth Malta – have prepared the below response to the approval of the Msida Creek Project. We condemn the decision taken by the Planning Authority on the 12th of October, 2023 regarding the Msida Creek Project. The Msida Promenade with its surrounding...
European Mobility Week On Sunday 17 September, we took our cargo bike to Siggiewi, where together with other organisations we participated in European Mobility Week activities on the village square. It was a beautiful quiet morning to ride through the streets of Hamrun and Qormi, the valley to Zebbug and finally onwards to Siggiewi. At...
Last week, Friends of the Earth Malta submitted their comments and feedback to the draft National Policy for the Deployment of Offshore Renewable Energy. Malta has one of the lowest RES shares in the EU, so there is a strong need to ramp up efforts, to reduce fossil fuel dependence and increase energy security. Given...
Today, 130 civil society organizations from more than 40 countries have launched a statement calling on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to end finance to all fossil fuels, including gas. The EBRD is currently preparing a new Energy Sector Strategy 2024-2028, which is expected to be published by the end of the...
