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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, 2021Global rescue plan to stop extinction “hopelessly weak and inadequate”
Rome, 24 February 2020 - A draft global plan to halt the collapse of nature will not protect vulnerable...
24 February, 2020Change the system or face global ecological collapse says global biodiversity assessment
6 May 2019, Paris: The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change...
06 May, 2019Genetic extinction technology challenged at UN Convention on Biological Diversity
SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT — Today, the African Centre for Biodiversity and Friends of the Earth International held a...
18 November, 2018COP fails to rise to the challenge of protecting biodiversity
The stakes for the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 13) were high, as...
20 December, 2016UN promoting potentially genocidal policy at World Climate Summit
PARIS, FRANCE – At the foot of a miniature Eiffel Tower, civil society, environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples rejected REDD,...
10 December, 2015Brazil frustrates California’s hopes for international forest carbon offsets
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA / BRASILIA, BRAZIL / PARIS, FRANCE, 2 December 2015 – National measures announced by Brazil last week...
02 December, 2015South Korea: Olympic ski course threatens ancient mountain forest
PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA, 16 October 2014 - Friends of the Earth International campaigners are standing with Korean environmentalists in...
16 October, 2014Forests need proper definition, NGOs tell FAO
MEDIA ADVISORY, 27 March, 2014 -- La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International, Focus on the Global South,...
27 March, 2014