GLOBAL 2000, Friends of the Earth Austria
General Information
Identification Code: 155881930654-10
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Entity Form: eingetragener Verein
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 3/8/2018
Last Update: 2/22/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
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 (...)
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
- Agriculture and rural development
- Business and industry
- Climate action
- Competition
- Consumers
- Economy, finance and the euro
- Energy
- Environment
- Food safety
- Maritime affairs and fisheries
- Public health
- Regional policy
- Research and innovation
- Taxation
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
- Youth
Levels of Interest:
- global
- sub-national
- european
- national
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: 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.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Neustiftgasse 36
Post Code: 1070
City: Wien
Country: AUSTRIA
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EU Office
Address: Neustiftgasse 36
Post Code: 1070
City: Wien
Country: AUSTRIA
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 7
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 7
Members F T E: 1.75
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: 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
Organisation Members: GLOBAL 2000 is also member of several other networks, for a list plese refer to: https://www.global2000.at/strategische-partnerschaften