Estonia
friends of the earth estonia / eesti roheline liikumine
estonia
contact eesti roheline liikumine/
estonian green movement:
PO Box 318
Tartu 50002
Estonia
phone: + 372 7 422532
fax: + 372 7 422084
e-mail:
info@roheline.ee
web:
http://www.roheline.ee/

Estonian Green Movement-FoE
is a non-governmental, non-profit
environmental organisation. It was founded in
1988, becoming one of the first environmental
NGOs in Estonia that started to deal with
wide range of environment and development
issues.
Its first campaign was a
protest against the opening of a large
phosphorite mine in northeast Estonia, which
would have brought irreversible damage to
ground water, and forest and marine
ecological systems. As a result of the
successful campaign, FoE-Estonia rapidly
developed into a nationwide grassroots
organisation. Subsequently, Estonian Green
Movement-FoE earned credit as a leader in the
Estonian independence movement. In its
activities the Estonian Green Movement-FoE is
backed by nation-wide active network of some
300 individual members.
Currently the Estonian Green Movement-FoE
is focusing on the environmental problems
brought by independence. It has became one of
the most influential environmental groups in
Estonia, advocating for the environmental
needs of Estonia's inhabitants. Estonian
Green Movement-FoE has adopted the mission of
responding to the regional environmental
problems brought by the political and social
changes, and to protect Estonian natural
resources at grassroots, national, and
international levels.
Its activities are carried out in
framework of 7 permanent working groups that
are dealing with following issues:
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energy,
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forestry,
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sustainable consumption,
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transport,
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water,
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youth.
In addition to permanent working groups there
are more specific projects such as assessing
possible impacts of large-scale
infrastructure investment projects by EU and
IFIs.
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