New Executive Director

Friends of the Earth has a new Executive Director. His name is Andy Atkins and he has led a range of campaigns on environmental and social issues.

Andy joins Friends of the Earth from development charity Tearfund. He launched their work on climate change and persuaded UK development charities to work on climate change as a poverty issue. Andy has also campaigned for human rights in Chile and has worked for development charity CAFOD. Read more about Andy.

Under Andy's leadership, Friends of the Earth will continue to push for political action to tackle environmental challenges. Our work will focus on climate change and biodiversity loss.

Andy replaces Tony Juniper, who is standing down after 18 years at Friends of the Earth.

Among many other achievements, Tony headed up Friends of the Earth's Big Ask campaign, which with the support of over 200,000 people has led to a world-first climate change law.

Local group members will have a chance to see Andy, and say goodbye to Tony, at Conference in September. If you can't make it to Conference, you can send a goodbye message to Tony via byebyetony@foe.co.uk

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