Estonia

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:

• energy,
• forestry,
• sustainable consumption,
• transport,
• water,
• 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.