fandb-2008

Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) statement

Friends of the Earth International, April 2008: Friends of the Earth International strongly rejects the current process of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS). The Roundtable completely fails to address the major social and environmental impacts of industrial-scale soy cultivation and frustrates real solutions.

community based forest governance

Friends of the Earth International, 2008: Human civilization has played a role in forest destruction for millennia. However, in the recent decades this devastation has become commonplace, and has reached a scale and pace of destruction that is unprecedented. Primary forests are the home and foundation for the rich cultures and lifestyles of more than 1 billion Indigenous people. Another four billion live in communities adjacent to, or dependent in some form or another, on forests.

Forests are more than carbon

Friends of the Earth International, August 2008: We need a just global transition to low carbon economies. Industrialized countries must take the lead by assuming responsibility to radically reduce emissions, as well as meet their obligations for financial and technology transfers to the South, exclusive of offsetting mechanisms, based on the climate debt that the North owes the South.

forests in a changing climate

Friends of the Earth International, December 2008: Will forests' role in regulating the global climate be hindered by climate change? This information briefing aims to bring together available current and/or relevant research to inform discussion about reducing carbon emissions from deforestation, especially within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

redd myths

Friends of the Earth International, December 2008: A critical review of proposed mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries.