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Bogus ‘Nature Based Solutions’ won’t solve the climate crisis. It’s just corporate greenwashing.
‘Nature-based solutions’ to the climate crisis were the talk of the town at COP26. The 2021 COP presidency made...
02 December, 2021Ahead of UN climate summit Friends of the Earth International spotlights how ‘Nature Based Solutions’ is being used to disguise climate-trashing business-as-usual
27 October 2021. Amsterdam, Netherlands and Glasgow, UK.
27 October, 2021Business interests have hijacked the UN food systems summit
The United Nations agencies are warning that 270 million more people – over four times the UK population –...
24 March, 2021Trade and investments agreements block progress on agroecology and food sovereignty
On World Food Day, a new report from Friends of the Earth International finds that current strategies to raise...
16 October, 2016Agroecology boosted at pioneering meeting
BRASILIA (BRAZIL), 23 June 2015 – We have reached a landmark moment for the global recognition of ‘agroecology’ as...
23 June, 2015Biofuels bubble turns to bust
BRUSSELS / AMSTERDAM / JAKARTA, April 28, 2015 – Today, the European Parliament agreed new EU laws to limit the...
28 April, 2015US force feeds GM crops to African nations, says new report
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 23 February, 2015 – US agencies, funders such as the Gates Foundation, and agribusiness giant Monsanto...
23 February, 2015Ugandan oil palm conglomerate taken to court over land-grab claims
KAMPALA/BRUSSELS/LONDON , 19 February 2015– Farmers in Uganda evicted by oil palm plantations are today filing a lawsuit against...
19 February, 2015Resistance to Liberia landgrabs a warning to Africa investment conference
ABUJA (NIGERIA) / MONROVIA (LIBERIA), 6 May 2014 – On the opening day of a 6-8 May conference in...
06 May, 2014New Report: More States Suspend Genetically Modified Crops
LONDON (UK) / BRUSSELS (BELGIUM), April 30, 2014 – The number of countries cultivating genetically modified (GM) crops is...
30 April, 2014