Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is currently one of the most important and influential NGO’s with national groups in 67 countries throughout the world.

Friends of the Earth has a democratic, decentralised structure with autonomous national groups whose overall objective is to promote a sustainable society.

The group aims to :

	Protect the earth against further deterioration and restore damage inflicted upon the environment by human activities and negligence;
	Preserve the earth’s ecological, cultural and ethnic diversity;
	Increase public participation and democratic decision making;
	Achieve social, economic and political justice and equal access to resources and opportunities for men and women on the local, national, regional and international levels;
	Promote environmentally sustainable development on local, national, regional and global levels;

Moviment ghall-Ambjent (FoE, Malta) is united with all Friends of the Earth groups worldwide in the conviction that these aims require both strong grassroots activism and effective national and international campaigning and coordination.