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Exposing corporate capture of the UN Food Systems Summit through multistakeholderism
This report exposes the rising threat of Multistakeholder Institutions (MSIs) and increasing corporate influence over th...
25 November, 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, 2021Briefing notes for COP26: Carbon markets, Article 6 and Net Zero
Check out our new briefing notes: Carbon markets at the UNFCCC – COP26 and Article 6 and Net Zero and COP26 – d...
25 October, 2021A Just Recovery Renewable Energy Plan for Africa
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report’s findings are both dire and clear: unless there ar...
31 August, 2021New report details Big Polluters’ next Big Con
Amsterdam, 9 June 2021 – In the midst of virtual discussions of the UN climate treaty, a new report shines a light on ...
09 June, 2021Covid-19: The peoples’ path from crisis to recovery
What impact has the Covid-19 pandemic had on the peoples, communities and allies that Friends of the Earth works with? H...
05 March, 2021Chasing Carbon Unicorns: The deception of carbon markets and “net zero”
Powerful actors are using “net zero” pledges to hide their climate inaction. Stopping the climate crisis requires us...
22 February, 2021Indian farmers lead historic struggle for Food Sovereignty, Anti-fascism, Democracy and Human Rights
Friends of the Earth International stands in solidarity with Indian farmers and workers in their continuing protests aga...
18 December, 2020Five years on, the Paris Agreement is a reminder that the root causes of the climate crisis remain unaddressed.
12 December 2020 marks the five-year anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement, in which 197 countries agreed t...
11 December, 2020COVID-19 and the crisis of capital: the sustainability of life and peoples’ sovereignty are the solution.
"Feminist Economics and Environmentalism for a Just Recovery: Outlooks from the South" is a publication by Friends of t...
12 November, 2020What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
“The world’s biggest infrastructure and connectivity project”, “building a community of common destiny”, “en...
22 October, 2020Stop corporations profiting from the pandemic. Stop ISDS.
The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest health and economic crisis in a generation. Some governments are taking extraordina...
19 October, 2020The military model destroying the Brazilian Amazon
“Scorched land is basically vacant land, it has nothing on it. This allows speculation to come in to play. Forested ...
06 July, 2020Gas in Mozambique: A windfall for the industry, a curse for the country
This new report by Friends of the Earth France, Mozambique and International denounces French interests in the gas mega-...
15 June, 2020Gas Rush, Human Rights Abuses, Climate Devastation, Insurgent Attacks, Covid Hotspot
Cabo Delgado needs our support and solidarity. The gas industry is ravaging the northernmost region of Mozambique, as tr...
04 June, 2020Stop all trade and investment treaty negotiations during COVID-19 crisis and focus on access to medical supplies and saving lives
Dear World Trade Organization Members, A new coronavirus has caused a COVID-19 pandemic that has spread across nearly a...
21 April, 2020COVID-19 measures must ensure Human Rights and build the resilient, sustainable food system we desperately need
Statement to the Extraordinary Meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers, 21 April 2020: As the COVID-19 health emergency un...
21 April, 2020COVID-19 crisis is a wake up call for system change
Friends of the Earth expresses its deep concern and solidarity as the world faces the COVID-19 crisis, which is already ...
15 April, 2020Tricks of the trade: corporations leading the deregulation of environmental protection
The environment is under threat. A global scientific assessment this year highlighted the urgent crisis in biodiversity ...
05 March, 2020Nature for Sale
Corporations, industries and international institutions have spent the last two decades pursuing market-based ‘solutio...
05 March, 2020How to achieve a successful Global Biodiversity Framework
2020 is a critical year for nature. From forests to oceans, fields to skies, science has shown that the interconnected e...
23 February, 2020Unprecedented bushfires in Australia and flooding in Indonesia: the devastating extremes of climate impacts
"We’re in a state of anxiety, shock and grief. Many of our staff, volunteers and the communities we work with have l...
13 January, 2020COP25 closing comments: A small victory, with an even bigger fight ahead
Sunday 15 December, Madrid, Spain: COP25 negotiations are finally over in Madrid, after going into extra time.
16 December, 2019Climate talks ‘out of touch with reality’ as rich countries seek to gut Paris Agreement
Madrid, Spain, 13 December 2019: Prospects for vulnerable communities in the global South look dire, as wealthy countrie...
13 December, 2019COP 25: Resurgence of carbon markets threatens people, politics and planet
2 December 2019, Madrid, Spain As the international climate talks open today in Madrid, Spain, the world faces the re-e...
29 November, 2019Carbon Markets at COP25, Madrid: A Threat to People, Politics, and Planet
In December 2019, the international community gathers for the 25th UN climate conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain. Carbo...
26 November, 2019Regulated Destruction
In the context of intensifying climate and biodiversity crises, international institutions and states have the power to ...
21 November, 2019Death by impunity: Berta Cáceres and Agua Zarca
“I cannot freely walk on my territory or swim in the sacred river and I am separated from my children because of the...
08 October, 2019Mobilize, resist, transform: Friends of the Earth groups among millions mobilizing for climate justice across the world
The world’s streets came alive with the footsteps and voices of climate protestors, from 20-27 September 2019, as mill...
03 October, 2019We have a decision to make: Change the system or face climate catastrophe
Finally, it seems that the urgency of the climate crisis has become impossible for decision-makers — especially in the...
20 September, 2019Revised binding treaty draft shamefully disappointing
Friends of the Earth International presents this initial analysis of the recently released Revised Draft of the UN Bindi...
25 July, 2019Corporations ‘hijack justice’ through RCEP trade deal
Countries from across Asia convened in Melbourne this week to negotiate the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partners...
04 July, 2019Red Carpet Courts
Imagine an environmentally or socially destructive corporate project – say, a toxic mine, which could poison your loca...
24 June, 2019Transforming our economy: Scaling up solutions
We live in a world facing many destructive and entwined crises - including growing inequality, climate change, poverty, ...
31 January, 2018WTO talks legitimacy “undermined” as Argentina blocks civil society attendance
Amsterdam and globally, 1 December 2017: Friends of the Earth International condemn the unprecedented and undemocratic d...
01 December, 2017Coal Financing in Asia Pacific must end!
Summary The Stop Coal Financing Report calls on the Asian Development Bank to cease all support for new coal projects, ...
03 May, 2017Revealed: Massive hidden costs of secret RCEP trade deal
Jakarta, December 8th The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is being negotiated in Jakarta, Indonesia t...
07 December, 2016The hidden costs of RCEP and corporate trade deals in Asia
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is currently being negotiated between 16 countries in the Asian r...
07 December, 2016Financial Mechanisms in the CBD: Opening the Doors to More Privatization of Biodiversity
The CBD is a forum where organizations and movements can bring our positions and try to get them reflected in official d...
06 December, 2016Life is not a business!
Joint statement made by the indigenous peoples of Mexico on the inauguration day of the COP 13, 4 December 2016, Cancun,...
04 December, 2016Secret TiSA trade deal equally as dangerous as TPP and TTIP finds new Friends of the Earth International report
While the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) appears to be dead and negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pa...
01 December, 2016Secret TiSA trade deal equally as dangerous as TPP and TTIP finds new Friends of the Earth International report
1 December 2016 - While the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) appears to be dead and negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade...
01 December, 2016Getting the Green Climate Fund we fought for
June - 2016 Karen Ornstein, deputy director of economic policy of Friends of the Earth US attended the meeting of the bo...
10 August, 2016Development financiers suspend Honduras operations after latest murder
Two major development finance companies involved in the construction of the controversial Agua Zarca dam announced they ...
16 March, 2016Civil society actions escalate as Paris climate talks enter final phase
With another round of climate talks closing soon and a fair and just deal as far away as ever, civil society organizatio...
09 December, 2015Financialization of Nature: Creating a new definition of nature
Nature and communities all over the world are facing multiple crises. Capitalism is also experiencing grave problems. Na...
02 November, 2015Another dirty energy domino falls as Engie swears off new coal investments
French Minister of the Environment Ségolène Royal announced today that energy giant Engie will stop investing in coa...
14 October, 2015Nigeria palm oil land grab exposes need for human rights treaty
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, July 8, 2015 – A new report on palm oil land grabs in Nigeria by Asia’s leading agribusiness g...
08 July, 2015Action: Harvard’s investments are wrecking lands and livelihoods in Argentina
Harvard University has one of the world’s largest endowments, which manages roughly US$30 billion. Some of this money ...
01 July, 2015UN climate talks close with insufficient progress
BONN, GERMANY, 11 June 2015 – As two weeks of UN climate talks come to a close here today, Friends of the Earth Intern...
11 June, 2015Friends of the Earth Africa groups push back on extractive activities, land grabs in Africa
Friends of the Earth Africa (FoEA) groups have decried the impact of extractive companies’ operations across the Afric...
26 May, 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 lawsu...
19 February, 2015Company profile of Ecoener and Hidralia Energía
This report presents an overview of the Spanish companies Ecoener and Hidralia Energía, both involved in the company Hi...
22 January, 2015Wait. Our governments are supposed to stop climate change not accelerate it, right?
World governments gathered in Lima, Peru for the latest round of UN climate negotiations should have finance on their mi...
03 December, 2014Financialization and biodiversity
Today we are witnessing a new wave of privatization through the implementation of financial mechanisms. The financializa...
21 October, 2014Friends of the Earth France: Pinocchio Awards 2014 – cast your ballots!
Friends of the Earth France/Les Amis de la Terre, in partnership with CRID (Centre de Recherche et d’Information pour ...
20 October, 2014Friends of the Earth Japan in focus
FoE Japan, created in 1980, was one of Japan's first NGOs to work on international environmental problems. Learn more ab...
15 July, 2014FoE Malaysia calls on Malaysian Government to address negative impacts of its overseas foreign direct investment
Although the outflow of Malaysian investments abroad has been more than the inflow of investments into the country, seri...
23 June, 2014Deutsche Bank divests from Bumitama
Deutsche Bank has told Friends of the Earth Europe and Rettet den Regenwald that it has sold its shares in the Indonesia...
27 May, 2014Harvard: Stop destroying the Iberá Wetlands!
Friends of the Earth Argentina is engaged in a campaign to protect some of that country’s most important wetlands, and...
08 April, 2014Water financialization exposed in new report on eve of WTO meeting
BALI (INDONESIA), December 2, 2013 – On the eve of a key World Trade Organization meeting in Bali [1], Friends of the ...
02 December, 2013Friends of the Earth Australia: Australia’s forest carbon experiment in Indonesia ends in failure
AusAID has effectively axed its $47 million forest carbon experiment in Kalimantan ahead of Prime Minister Rudd's visit ...
03 July, 2013European investments assist land grabs in Liberia
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / MONROVIA (LIBERIA), June 24, 2013 - European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have giv...
24 June, 2013Free trade and investment agreements under fire by civil society
WASHINGTON (DC), May 27, 2013 – Immediately following the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations...
27 May, 2013Land Rights and the World Bank Group: Setting the Record Straight
Responding to concerns raised by Friends of the Earth International and others about the impacts of land grabbing, The W...
03 May, 2013Friends of the Earth South Africa: Brics-from-below summit: Watching and challenging power!
As the five heads of states of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) meet on African soil in Durban next...
20 March, 2013World Bank must end support for Honduran palm oil company implicated in dozens of murders
WASHINGTON (DC), MARCH 19 2013 -- Today several Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) condemned a statement by the World...
19 March, 2013Dutch court ruling against Shell a partial victory
THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, January 30, 2013 – Today a Dutch court ruled that Shell Nigeria is responsible for polluti...
30 January, 2013Investors must stop land grabbing, say civil society groups
LONDON (UK), November 30, 2012 – Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land ...
30 November, 2012UN biodiversity talks favor false solutions to biodiversity crisis
HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 19, 2012 - After two weeks of talks, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference [1] comes to a...
19 October, 2012Biodiversity talks should oppose ‘financialization’ of nature
HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 12, 2012 - While ministers start gathering here ahead of a second week of United Nations Biodi...
12 October, 2012Gates foundation-led green revolution promotes false solutions to hunger in Africa
Friends of the Earth International warns against damaging industrial farming promoted by the Gates Foundation at the Agr...
25 September, 2012Nature is not for sale
An overview of what happens when you treat nature as a commodity, who is responsible and why it needs to stop. Also a...
01 June, 2012Seventy thousand people ask oil giant Shell to clean up its mess in Nigeria
AMSTERDAM (THE NETHERLANDS), May 21st, 2012 – On the eve of the annual general meeting of oil giant Shell, Friends of ...
21 May, 2012New report uncovers land grab in Uganda
WASHINGTON DC / BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / KAMPALA (UGANDA) 23rd April 2012: Released on the eve of a World Bank Conference on...
23 April, 2012How corporations rule part 3: vale
The Brazilian company Vale is the world’s second largest metals and mining company and one of the largest producers of...
12 January, 2012European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger
European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food pr...
12 January, 2012Farming money
How European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on foo...
06 January, 2012Climate: disastrous “Durban package” accelerates onset of climate catastrophe
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 13 DECEMBER 2011 – The UN climate talks in Durban were a failure and take the world a significan...
13 December, 2011Climate talks: Durban inaction a recipe for climate catastrophe
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 7 December 2011 – Friends of the Earth International has issued strong warnings against climate ...
07 December, 2011Climate agenda of South African energy giant Sasol exposed
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 7 December 2011 – Polluting companies and multinational corporations are exerting pressure on go...
07 December, 2011New report: world’s first big ‘REDD’ project violating indigenous people rights
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 6 December, 2011 – While the governments of countries such as Australia are busy with forest pro...
06 December, 2011In the REDD
This report was researched by campaigners in Friends of the Earth Australia who visited Indonesia to examine the Kaliman...
03 December, 2011Will Africa lead the world where rich countries have failed?
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 2 December 2011 – Continued strong and united leadership by African governments is essential at ...
02 December, 2011Developed nations – led by US, UK and Japan – try to turn green climate fund into greedy corporate fund
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, Dec. 1, 2011— Today 163 civil society organisations from 39 countries released a letter exposing...
01 December, 2011UN climate talks : strong concerns over agenda of developed countries
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 22 November 2011 – Friends of the Earth International has expressed strong concerns over the sta...
22 November, 2011In support of the Occupy movement
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 17 November 2011 – The world’s largest grassroots environmental organization today spoke...
17 November, 2011Meat and forest products consumption fuel inequalities in global land use
NEW REPORT: Europe and United States import millions of hectares of virtual land BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / LONDON (UK), Octob...
10 October, 2011Warnings over new threat to international climate talks
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA, October 7, 2011 - Friends of the Earth International has expressed strong concerns over renewed att...
07 October, 2011Friends of the Earth International call for Shell to be held to account
Friends of the Earth International welcomes the report released today by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNE...
04 August, 2011Stop farm land grabbing – hundreds of civil society groups call on the G20
PARIS, MONTEVIDEO, LONDON, June 20, 2011: Today, in advance of the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting in Paris on June 22...
20 June, 2011Report reveals World Bank’s role in fuelling climate chaos
BONN, GERMANY, June 11, 2011 – A new report released today by Friends of the Earth International during the UN climate...
11 June, 2011World bank: catalysing catastrophic climate change
This report explores the Bank’s increasing investment in fossil fuels, in particular coal, and its continued support f...
01 June, 2011Shell ‘apologises’ for worldwide damage in “erratum” to annual report
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, May 17, 2011: During the Shell annual general assembly (AGM) in The Hague, today, Friends of the...
17 May, 2011Barrick Gold clean up your act! Right to life over gold profits’
TORONTO (CANADA), April 27, 2011 – Today, during the annual general meeting (AGM) of mining company Barrick Gold in To...
27 April, 2011Shell under scrutiny for Nigerian situation again
THE HAGUE (NETHERLANDS), 25 January 2011 - Oil giant Shell will again be under scrutiny for the environmental and social...
25 January, 2011Cancun package merely prevents collapse and leaves Kyoto protocol on life support
CANCUN, MEXICO, 11 December 2010 – The agreement adopted at the UN climate talks in Cancun has failed to make progress...
11 December, 2010Governments urged not to rush into REDD deal and focus on effective forest conservation
CANCUN, MEXICO, 9 December 2010 – Draft texts on REDD (Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation) currently...
09 December, 2010World Bank should stay out of carbon markets and climate finance
CANCUN, MEXICO, 8 December 2010 - World Bank President Robert Zoellick is coming to the climate negotiations in Cancun t...
08 December, 2010UN advisory group on climate finance report falls flat
NOVEMBER 5, 2010 - A new report on climate change financing options released today by a U.N. Advisory Group unwisely emp...
05 November, 2010