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Chasing 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...
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
“The world’s biggest infrastructure and connectivity project”, “building a community of common destiny”, “en...
Burning Amazonia: A Global Corporate Crime
Transnational corporations have sought to expand their territorial control of the Amazon for decades. Year after year, t...
Principles for a Just Recovery from the COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 crisis is the result of an economic system that prioritises profits over peoples’ rights and the enviro...
Carbon 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...
Regulated Destruction
In the context of intensifying climate and biodiversity crises, international institutions and states have the power to ...
Death 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...
Red Carpet Courts
Imagine an environmentally or socially destructive corporate project – say, a toxic mine, which could poison your loca...
RCEP: A secret deal
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is being negotiated by 16 countries in Asia. Negotiations include...
Transforming our economy: Scaling up solutions
We live in a world facing many destructive and entwined crises - including growing inequality, climate change, poverty, ...
The 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...
Secret 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...
Friends of the Earth International positions on key trade and investment issues
Friends of Earth International’s vision is for a peaceful and sustainable world based on societies living in harmony w...
New EU investment proposal won’t prevent corporate attacks
Dangerous attacks against regulations protecting the public interest and the environment would not be prevented by the E...
Is world trade law a barrier to saving our climate?
Friends of the Earth Europe and the Center for International Environmental law, 2009: This analysis demonstrates that th...
Global Europe: The tyranny of free trade the European way
Friends of the Earth International, December 2008: An analysis of the EU's 'Global Europe' strategy. This strategy is se...
What you need to know about NAMA
What you need to know about ‘NAMA’: Why the WTO’s non-agricultural market access negotiations threaten both enviro...
The world trade system
This briefing, one in a series entitled Sale of the Century? from Friends of the Earth International, examines the theor...