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annual report 2009 - executive summary

Download a summarized version of the 2009 annual report.

funding and membership support

 

Resisting oil, mining and gas program highlights

The Resisting Mining, Oil and Gas Program is based on a vision in which the world does not depend on minerals, oil and gas. Its objective is to dismantle corporate control over minerals, oil and gas, and to stop the destruction and violations of communities and ecosystems.

financial report 2009

 

member groups

Friends of the Earth International is made up of the activities and actions of our 76 member groups, and it is our mission to support and strengthen their work at the local level.

selected media quotes from 2009

In 2009, hundreds of news stories quoting Friends of the Earth messages were published and aired by a broad spectrum of media organizations, ranging from the world's leading newspapers and TV news programs such as the Financial Times and CNN, through to alternative news sources like the IPS news agency and Indymedia. The following selected quotes are from stories published during the year.

cyberactions in 2009

Cyberactivists from around the world took action in a number of ways during 2009. Here are some of the highlights.

Agrofuels campaign highlights in 2008

The main goal of FoEI's agrofuels campaign is to halt the development, production and trade of agrofuels, which is threatening food sovereignty and biodiversity, and has been shown to be a false solution to the climate crisis.

disclosing the truth, building awareness and mobilizing against corporate abuses

In 2008, FoEI continued campaigning on specific corporations in sectors that harm the environment. This entailed research and monitoring of EU-based companies working in the oil and gas, agrofuels and forest extraction sectors, and their actions in the South.

focusing on the links between industrial agriculture and trade

In 2008, FoE groups from all regions compiled case studies focused on defending territories and land rights from agribusiness and controversial agricultural expansions, such as deforestation for palm plantations in Asia or land evictions for soy and tree monocultures in South America.

Food Sovereignty Program highlights in 2008

In 2008, FoEI’s Food Sovereignty Program contributed effectively to the implementation of the agenda agreed by the food sovereignty movement at the Nyeleni Forum, (the first International Forum for Food Sovereignty organized in Selingue, Mali, in February 2007).

Food Sovereignty Program highlights

The Food Sovereignty Program’s objective is to resist and expose industrial corporate-led agriculture and promote food sovereignty.

Climate justice and energy program highlights

The CJE Program’s overall objective is to build a diverse, effective and global movement for climate justice. Climate justice is a right-based approach to the climate crisis with holds those historically responsible for the climate crisis to account. Climate justice demands structural changes to tackle neo-liberalism and radically reduce consumption. In keeping with FoEI’s mission to influence policies and policy dialogue, the CJE Program also aims to ensure that by rich industrialized Annex I countries commit to needed emissions reductions, and appropriate and sufficient financing and transfers of technology to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, allowing a just transition to sustainable, fossil-free societies.

england, wales and northern ireland: people change politics with the big ask

Back in 2005, few politicians paid any serious attention to the idea of a national law committing the UK to legally-binding reductions in its greenhouse gas emissions. Yet it seemed most unlikely that the UK would meet its reduction commitments without a framework within which real action could happen. Party politics also needed to be removed from the equation, to stop the government simply leaving an ever more difficult task to be dealt with by future administrations.

papua new guinea: holding corporations accountable

Papua New Guinea is home to some of the Asia Pacific region’s largest continuous tracts of ancient rainforest.

papua new guinea: world’s first climate change refugees

Papua New Guinea is already feeling the effects of climate change.

programs and campaigns highlights in 2009

In 2009, Friends of the Earth International had six active international programs and campaigns. Within these we coordinated a wide range of actions at the international, regional, national and local levels, that improve the ability of peoples and communities around the world to secure sustainable livelihoods and protect our environment for generations to come.

new members, executive committee and chair

Members of Friends of the Earth International voted in new members, a new chair, and a new executive committee at the 2008 Biannual General Meeting in Honduras.

friends of the earth in the media in 2008

In 2008, a broad and growing spectrum of media organizations, spanning from the world's leading newspapers to niche websites, carried Friends of the Earth International's messages to audiences around the world.

ewni & south africa & swaziland: building capacity to resist corporate exploitation in southern africa

Southern African civil society organisations face many challenges – from corruption to weak democracy – in their quest for corporate accountability. These pitfalls make their societies more vulnerable to exploitation by corporations, many of which are based in the United Kingdom.