2011
jatropha: money doesn't grow on trees
Friends of the Earth International, January 2011: Jatropha is still being touted as a biofuel wonder crop. But there is evidence that jatropha does not deliver on its promises. This new report lists ten reasons why jatropha is neither a profitable nor a sustainable investment.
jatropha: money doesn't grow on trees - summary
Friends of the Earth International, January 2011: Jatropha is still being touted as a biofuel wonder crop. But there is evidence that jatropha does not deliver on its promises. This new report lists ten reasons why jatropha is neither a profitable nor a sustainable investment.
OECD submission
Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta, January 2011: Complaint to the UK and Dutch National Contact Points under the Specific Instance Procedure of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
who benefits from gm crops? - 2011
Friends of the Earth International, February 2011: This annual report analyses major new developments regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in various regions around the world, including new evidence and testimony from our member groups. In this 2011 edition, we focus particularly on pesticide use, increasing public and legal opposition to GMOs, and the biotech industry’s move into breeding and attempting to release genetically modified animals.
Who benefits from GM crops? 2006 - 2011
A series of yearly reports on the impact of Genetically Modified Crops (GM) in agriculture.
For the land that feeds us
Friends of the Earth International, July 2011: Struggles and achievements in building food sovereignty and local diversity. This publication has several aims, from highlighting the role that peasant women and men, indigenous people, and young people play in the improvement, use, conservation and defense of biodiversity, through to showing the strategic role that agroecological and family, peasant and urban agricultural practices play in the defense of territory and resistance against the advance of monocultures and other extractive industries.
it's time to outlaw land grabbing, not to make it "responsible"!
Friends of the Earth International, Centro de Estudios para el Cambio en el Campo Mexicano (Study Centre for Change in the Mexican Countryside), FIAN International, Focus on the Global South, Global Campaign on Agrarian Reform, GRAIN, La Via Campesina, Land Research Action Network, Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Social Network for Justice and Human Rights) and the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, April 2011.
Holcim in Latin America: case studies
Friends of the Earth International, May 2011: The Swiss transnational Holcim, one of the biggest cement producers in the world, has gradually expanded its presence in Latin America, which has also increased the environmental and social conflicts produced by its activities.
Erratum to the Shell annual report
Friends of the Earth International, May 2011: Friends of the Earth International have been following Shell and its activities for years now, worldwide. This Erratum is an account of their findings. It shows that across the globe, Shell’s activities are damaging the environment, human rights and biodiversity; it shows us how imperative it is to change the way Shell works.
Background report to the Erratum of Shell's Annual Report 2010
Friends of the Earth International, May 2011: This report provides the background information for another report: Erratum of Shell's Annual Report 2010.
40 years of struggles and successes
Friends of the Earth International, June 2011: Forty years is a long time to struggle and struggles can sometimes seem endless when we are in the middle of them but Friends of the Earth International’s fortieth anniversary offers us a wonderful opportunity to stand still for a moment, together with our friends and allies around the world, and simply reflect, marvel even, at just how much we - friends of the earth all have achieved in the last four decades.
World Bank: catalysing catastrophic climate change
Friends of the Earth International, June 2011: The world bank's role in dirty energy investment and carbon markets.
women and food sovereignty
Friends of the Earth International, July 2011: Voices of rural women of the south. This publication aims to present testimonies that reflect the situation of rural women in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The voices of these workers of the land highlight the unbalanced nature of gender relations in rural societies throughout these three continents.
Factsheet: UNEP research project in Ogoniland
Produced by Friends of the Earth Netherlands, August 2010
Lords of the Land: Analysis of Land Grabbing in Mozambique
Friends of the Earth Mozambique and the National Farmers Union of Mozambique, March 2011: This report uses case studies to analyse the practice of land grabbing taking place in Mozambique.
community rights, corporate wrongs
Friends of the Earth International, October 2011: Friends of the Earth International promotes the respect and enforcement of community rights as a means to resist corporate power and create social change. Our member groups around the world are working closely with local communities, demanding a just transition towards sustainable rural and urban societies, in contrast to the current profit-driven, neoliberal paradigm. This report focuses on campaigns that have the defence and enforcement of community rights at the heart of their struggles.
memory, truth and justice for heroes
Friends of the Earth International, November 2011: This publication brings together stories from Africa, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Central Asia and Eastern Europe on the heroism of those who have been killed and those whose rights had been violated, as well as those who are presently being repressed in their resistance against mining, oil and gas projects around the world.
Our climate, our say
Friends of the Earth International, December 2011: Community briefing on climate change.
Our climate, our say (Zulu)
Friends of the Earth International, November 2011: Community Briefing on climate change written in Zulu.
our climate is not for sale
Friends of the Earth International, November 2011: Carbon markets briefing. The threat of carbon market expansion at cop 17.
Briefing: Changing the system not the climate
Friends of the Earth International, December 2011: Changing the system not the climate, at COP17 in Durban and beyond.
In the REDD: Australia's carbon offset project in central Kalimantan
Friends of the Earth International, December 2011: This report was researched by campaigners in Friends of the Earth Australia who visited Indonesia to examine the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership, the world's first large scale REDD pilot project that was set up between Australia and Indonesia.
How corporations rule: introduction
Friends of the Earth International, December 2011: With the launch of a series of briefings, Friends of the Earth International is aiming to help shed light on what we consider to be the central issue underlying a lack of governmental accountability toward ordinary citizens on environmental and sustainability issues. In the area of climate policy and beyond, governmental positions have been increasingly hijacked by narrow corporate interests linked to polluting industries and industries seeking to profit from the climate crisis.
how corporations rule: sasol and south africa's climate policy
Friends of the Earth International, December 2011: The corporate and elite capture of decision-making at the national level is a key factor underpinning governments’ failure to deliver economic transformation at the scale and speed needed to prevent the Earth’s climate from deteriorating further and avoiding even more dangerous climate tipping points. With this series of case studies, Friends of the Earth International aims to help open a window into the complex and largely hidden world of corporate pressure exerted over national and international climate and environmental policy.
how corporations rule: ieta lobby group ignores carbon market flaws
Friends of the Earth International, December 2011: The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) calls itself the “leading voice of the global business community on emissions trading” and represents a range of energy-intensive industries, from Shell to Rio Tinto. It plays an active lobbying role at UN climate talks, pushing for the expansion of carbon trading and to weaken standards under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), currently the main international offset mechanism.
Oil or Development
Results from a field study on the environmental and social impacts of oil exploration along the northern coast. Justiça Ambiental, by Daniel Ribeiro and Joshua Dimon, September 2011
