Category: Archive
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Anthony Rae Foundation
Originally intended as just a vehicle to channel financial support for environmental research and campaigning, the Foundation now brings under one roof my analysis and information work as well ~ My eponymous foundation was devised in a spare half hour in August 2009 – when I switched my personal financial levers from ‘accumulate’ to distribute’ –…
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Year 6 – 2014
[holding text for the moment; I’ll complete it in December 2014] In 2014: – I continued the grants to the Environmental Investigation Agency (illegal timber and wildlife trafficking in China) and to the Rainforest Foundation (Congo basin) begun the previous year (here). – I sponsored the application to Network for Social Change of LAON (the…
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Year 5 – 2013
[holding text for the moment; I’ll complete it in December 2014] In 2013: – I continued the grants to the Environmental Investigation Agency (illegal timber and wildlife trafficking in China) and to the Rainforest Foundation (Congo basin) begun the previous year (here). – Sponsored the EIA application for £15,000 to the Network for Social Change…
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ARF Campaigning
I campaign across a shifting portfolio of local, regional and national environmental issues. Here are some of them: – National: In its reorganisation at the end of 2011 Friends of the Earth reassigned the staff post of Aviation Campaigner, but we’d working on the subject for the previous 10+ years – gaining some momentum which…
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Climate Change
[Contents to be completed – January 2012] AR Foundation major supported programme: In 2010 the Foundation made a 3 year commitment to support the Friends of the Earth international climate change campaign – including the presence of campaigners at Copenhagen, Cancun and Durban – and the preparation of four research reports addressing aspects of the…
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Aviation
– June 2015 I funded some of the work behind Leo Murray’s proposal for a Frequent Flyer Levy (FFL) to replace Air Passenger Duty. The report (prepared by CE Delft) is here and the Observer letter signed by many NGOs supporting the proposal here.The purpose of this exercise is not to change one aviation tax…
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ARF Information
In 2002 I created transportinfo.org.uk a website which provided a daily compilation of UK press articles on transport issues. After 6 years of continuous operation the site was transferred free of charge to Cogitamus on 1st July 2008, and still appears every day. The motive for providing this service was simple: campaigners and decisions makers…
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Yorkshire & Humber
Please note: this page contains an unconcealed attack on the competence and character of Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles! ‘Between 1994 and 2011, the nine English regions had an administrative role in the implementation of UK Government policy, and as the areas covered by (mostly indirectly) elected bodies.’ Those roles and structures were then summarily abolished…