climate justice and energy
Clearing the air - summary
Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, December 2010: Moving on from carbon trading to real climate solutions.
the abc of climate finance
Friends of the Earth International, December 2010: The involvement of annex 1 countries, banks and companies in climate finance.
The EU Emissions Trading System: failing to deliver
Friends of the Earth Europe, November 2010: Reliance on the EU-ETS leaves Europe failing to meet its share of the climate challenge, and obstructing real action.
redd: the realities in black and white
Friends of the Earth International, November 2010: When it comes to climate change, REDD is the couleur dujour. "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries” holds out the enticing prospect of mitigating climate change, conserving threatened biodiversity, and bringing much-needed development finance to poor Indigenous Peoples and local forest-dwelling communities - at the same time as offering significant profits to investors. All this immediately begs the question: is REDD too good to be true?
Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heated promises and hot air?
Friends of the Earth International, November 2010: Very few people have looked beyond the shiny promise of nanotechnology to try and understand how this far-reaching new technique is actually developing. This report takes a glimpse inside and offers a judicious and balanced account of a subject we need very much to be thinking about.
How the Asian Development Bank finances climate change
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific, September 2009: The Asian Development Bank is a major financier in the Asia Pacific region and throughout the case studies in this publication, Friends of the Earth demonstrates that its projects are contributing to climate change and exacerbating climate vulnerability.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
