GLOBAL 2000, Friends of the Earth Austria
Budget
€6,216,184
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
7
2.5 FTE
EU Grants
€319,551
Mission & Goals
GLOBAL 2000 (Friends of the Earth Austria) is a non-profit, non-partisan, and non-confessional federal NGO. Donations and membership fees make up 65 per cent of GLOBAL 2000’s revenue and ensure its political independence. GLOBAL 2000 was founded in 1982. Above all, GLOBAL 2000's focus is on achieving an ecological sustainable society, which provides a good life for everybody, inside the ecological boundaries of the planet. To this end, GLOBAL 2000 closely monitors the development of environmental policy in Austria and the EU and is committed to ecological fairness and a future worth living both locally and around the globe. Since 1982, GLOBAL 2000 has been working to uncover potential hazards for humans and the environment. To reach our goals, we cooperate with other environmental organizations, citizens’ initiatives, independent action groups and selected corporate entities. GLOBAL 2000 is effectively involved in working on the enormous challenges of environmental polic (...)
EU Legislative Interests
In GLOBAL 2000) federal agency in Vienna 7 staff are dealing with the policy aspects of regenerative energies, infrastructure planning, sustainability, suffiency and circular economy, species and nature conservation, the risks of nuclear power, climate change, genetic engineering, chemistry and other environmental topics as far as policy formulation is concerned. The contact with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions had mainly taken place through Friends of the Earth Europe in Brussels. Direct contact by GLOBAL 2000 staff had primarily taken place with respect to Austrian MEPs and representatives in the EU institutions.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
GLOBAL 2000 is also member of several other networks, for a list please refer to: https://www.global2000.at/strategische-partnerschaften
Organisation Members
Since 1999 we have been the Austrian partner organisation in the global Friends of the Earth network. Friends of the Earth Europe unites more than 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups and is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International. GLOBAL 2000 runs many cooperations and partnerships, for a list please refer: https://www.global2000.at/kooperationen
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.