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featured report
overconsumption?
Natural resources, including materials, water, energy and fertile land, are the basis for our life on Earth. However, humanity’s rapidly growing consumption of these resources is causing severe damage. 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. (Friends of the Earth Europe and other organisations, September 2009)
annual report 2009 - executive summary
Download a summarized version of the 2009 annual report.
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.
Liberemos a ONU da captura corporativa / Reclaim the UN from corporate capture - Portuguese
A Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável faz 20 anos, e há preocupações reais com a crescente influência de grandes corporações e grupos de lobby de negócios dentro da ONU.
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.
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
Methodology behind "Irresponsible Energy"
There are two separate pieces of research that have resulted in this briefing. One that provided estimates of the carbon intensity of current production and one that estimated the carbon intensity of the companies' total resources...
Information Paper on Southern Ocean Vessel Issues
This paper sets forth information on the increased number and type of vessels operating in the Southern Ocean, and recent incidents. Given that IMO has designated the Southern Ocean a special area, the paper suggests subjects for the IMO to consider, including vessel ice-strengthening standards; banning use of heavier grade fuel oils; discharges of oily substances, sewage, graywater and waste; introduction of alien species through ballast water, hull fouling and other pathways; and establishment of a vessel traffic monitoring and information system for vessels operating in the Southern Ocean.
The CAO in Peru, Lessons Learned from Dialogue as a strategy to Reduce Conflict
According to John Burton, conflict resolution mechanisms “have the capacity to achieve that opposing systems become harmonic ones. They have the capacity to unite, create bridges, between persons, between groups and between systems”
Farmers and biodiversity in Latin America
Friends of the Earth International, May 2003: For rural workers, the creation of biodiversity is the result of an interaction between human beings and nature. People are part of nature.
Victims of their own fortunes
Ongoing environmental problems resulting from oil production in the Niger Delta in Nigeria (October 2000)
Shell : Use your profits to clean up your mess
Today Shell will announce sky-high profits. People from around the world tell Shell to stop destroying the environment and people’s lives: Report on how Shell should fund local solutions for environmental and social destruction caused by its projects.
