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Google Earth Tour Reveals How a Global Dam Boom Could Worsen the Climate Crisis
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International Rivers and Friends of the Earth International have teamed up to create a state-of-the-art Google Earth 3-D tour and video narrated by FoEI Chair Nnimmo Bassey.
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Haiti - poverty drives people to cut too many trees
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Aldrin from haiti on climate change
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Argentina - The Salado River has taken everything away
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On April 28, 2003, the Salado river burst its banks flooding and submerging Santa Fe City within a few hours. Experts concluded that the rains preceding the disaster were the highest on record causing the "collapse of the natural course of drainage waters". It was not the first huge flood in Argentina, but undoubtedly it left the biggest number of climate refugees: more than 40,000 people without a roof, without clothes, without a history.
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The Climate Olympics
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At the recent climate talks in Bonn there seemed to be a competition between certain countries as to who could commit to the lowest cuts in carbon emissions. This cartoon illustrates the sad turn in events.
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Climate Justice Assembly Declaration
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At this year's World Social Forum in Brazil, Friends of the Earth International supported and participated in several events on climate justice, plantations and food sovereignty. The allowed social movements and civil society organizations opposed to a world dominated by capital to debate just and sustainable alternatives. Below is the statement on climate justice produced in one of the workshops.
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Washed out lives by GMB Akash
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Photographer GMB Akash documents the lives of people affected by rising sea levels and the increasing frequency of cyclones in Bangladesh.
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A darker shade of green
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The twenty-eight minute video, produced by the Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project documents opposition around the globe to controversial programs that claim to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) by putting forests into the carbon market.
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Environmentalists Welcome World Bank President's Halt to Palm Oil Investments
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Jakarta, Indonesia, September 11, 2009 -- Friends of the Earth International welcomed today's announcement by the IFC, the World Bank's private sector arm, that it will stop all palm oil investments.
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UN CLIMATE TALKS : STRONG CONCERNS OVER AGENDA OF DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
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DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 22 November 2011 – Friends of the Earth International has expressed strong concerns over the stated agenda of the US and a number of other developed countries at the forthcoming UN climate talks in Durban from 28 November to 9 December [1].
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the people’s voices: mobilizations in cancun
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CANCUN, MEXICO, 4 December 2010 - To make sure the people's voices and
demands are heard during the UN climate negotiations currently taking
place in Cancun, Friends of the Earth International is engaged in several
popular mobilizations.
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