climate justice and energy
Reports by Friends of the Earth International and member groups on climate affected peoples and impacted communities, united nations climate talks, energy sovereignty, finance and climate change, forests and climate change and agrofuels.
featured report
financing climate justice
Friends of the Earth International, December 2009: The global North is responsible for climate change and owes a climate debt to the global South. Climate finance is about the payment of that debt, as well as enabling developing countries to adopt low carbon societies and increase communities’ resilience to climate change. Read the summary
What is environmental justice?
Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, August 2010: Friends of the Earth believes that tackling environmental injustice will not only protect people, but also the natural world. If you have healthy people, you get a healthy planet. But to do this we have to get to grips with some big problems.
Capitalizing on climate: The World Bank's Role in Climate Change & International Climate Finance
Friends of the Earth United States, June 2010: This report examines the various, and often contradictory, roles played by the World Bank – a major climate polluter and driver of deforestation, an institution attempting to address climate change, a political tool used by developed countries in UN climate negotiations to maintain control over international climate finance, a supposed defender of developing country interests, and an institution asserting itself to capture as much short term (and, by extension, long term) climate finance as possible.
Tar sands: Fuelling the climate crisis, undermining EU energy security and damaging development objectives
Friends of the Earth Europe, May 2010: A new report warns that global development of tar sands will magnify the climate crisis and damage the EU’s environment and development objectives.
Overconsumption? Our use of the world's natural resources
Friends of the Earth Europe and other organisations, September 2009: It is essential to start a debate about European resource use and its environmental and social impacts around the world. In order to help facilitate this debate, this report aims to provide a compilation of information on current trends in European and global resource use.
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 the WTO agreements can and have been interpreted in a way that allows ample flexibility for national measures designed to address climate change – particularly if they are adopted pursuant to a global climate treat.
Climate justice times
Friends of the Earth International, Copenhagen 2009: Newspaper released by FoEI during the UN climate talks in Copenhagen highlighting our positions on issues such as carbon offsetting and agrofuels.
REDD Myths: executive summary
Friends of the Earth International, December 2009: A critical review of proposed mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries.
financing climate justice matrix
Friends of the Earth International, December 2009: Summary of demands and ethical criteria matrix in relation to climate finance transfers.
financing climate justice - summary
Friends of the Earth International, December 2009: The global North is responsible for climate change and owes a climate debt to the global South. Climate finance is about the payment of that debt, as well as enabling developing countries to adopt low carbon societies and increase communities’ resilience to climate change. This summary explains how the climate debt can be paid.
financing climate justice - position paper
Friends of the Earth International, December 2009: The outcomes of the Copenhagen negotiations on the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and fulfilment of other UNFCCC obligations will only be deemed as acceptable if any agreement/s reached are socially, politically, ecologically and economically just and compliant with human rights.
Carbon trading: a dangerous obsession - executive summary
Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, November 2009: A dangerous obsession focuses on the buying and selling of a new artificial commodity - the right to emit carbon dioxide. The UK and other developed country governments want to see this trade expanded into a massive worldwide market.
Carbon trading: a dangerous obsession
Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, November 2009: A dangerous obsession focuses on the buying and selling of a new artificial commodity - the right to emit carbon dioxide. The UK and other developed country governments want to see this trade expanded into a massive worldwide market.
Carbon offsetting: a dangerous distraction
Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland, June 2009: There is a growing and credible body of evidence and opinion that offsetting is not working; that it is undermining efforts to prevent dangerous climate change and supporting sustainable development; that it is profoundly unjust, and that it cannot successfully be reformed. This report draws together some of the key evidence to ensure this view is fully reflected in public debate and international talks.
shells big dirty secret
Friends of the Earth Europe, September 2009: Insight into the world’s most carbon intensive oil company and the legacy of CEO Jeroen van der Veer.
European biofuel policies: failing governance - avoiding responsibilities
Friends of the Earth Netherlands and Friends of the Earth Indonesia, September 2009: European biofuel policies and oil palm plantation expansion in Ketapang District, West Kalimantan.
