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File Malaysian palm oil: green gold or green wash? Executive summary
Friends of the Earth International, October 2008, : A commentary on the sustainability claims of Malaysia’s palm oil lobby, with a special focus on the state ...
Koreans dont want gm crops
Friends of the Earth International and the Korean Federation of Environmental Movements issued today May 1st an urgent call for the South Korean government and ...
Lands and Rights in Troubled Waters
Friends of the Earth Colombia (CENSAT), civil society organisations and universities have got together to work on a joint project to address conflicts over ...
File clashes with corporate giants: 22 campaigns for biodiversity and community
Friends of the Earth International: Protecting biological diversity is critical - not just for the intrinsic value of a particular butterfly species or a ...
File nature for sale: the impacts of privatizing water and biodiversity
Friends of the Earth International International, January 2005: Friends of the Earth International is actively resisting the corporate take-over of nature’s ...
'CERTIFIED' PALM OIL NOT A SOLUTION
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA November 3, 2009 -- Certifying palm oil is not a solution to the environmental damage and human rights violations caused by oil palm ...
real price of agrofuels revealed
Brussels (Belgium) / Porto Alegre (Brazil) / Montevideo (Uruguay), 10 September 2008 -- The rapid development of agrofuels in Latin America looks set to ...
biological diversity meeting amidst farmer’s protests
Following the UN talks on GM crops and food, the eighth Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) started in Curitiba on 20th March 2007.
new stories about tree plantations and women
Three new case studies and a video on the impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Brazil were released on Sunday 8 ...
Penan communities re-blockade villages in protest over government's broken promises
On September 2, 2010, around 150 Penan villagers from a number of communities in Sarawak, Malaysia, gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the simultaneous ...
Sumatrian Forest Carbon Deal slammed by FoE Australia and Indonesia
Friends of the Earth Australia and WAHLI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) have come out strongly in opposition to the new Australian-Indonesian Forest Carbon ...
'Sustainable palm oil' advert false says watchdog
After a complain from Friends of the Earth International the UK advertising watchdog has ruled that claiming palm oil is "sustainably produced" is false ...
New timber law is the first step towards banning illegal timber in Europe
Friends of the Earth Europe welcomed the majority vote in the European Parliament on July 7 in favour of the European directive to ban illegal timber from the ...
File Cana Bois: plundering protected areas in Cameroon for the European market
Friends of the Earth Netherlands/Friends of the Earth Cameroon, June 2009: Report providing evidence that the Cameroon-based logging company Cana Bois has been ...
New report: world's first big ‘REDD’ project violating indigenous people rights
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 6 December, 2011 – While the governments of countries such as Australia are busy with forest projects that promote false solutions such ...
MALAYSIAN PALM OIL GREENWASH REPORT
PENANG (MALAYSIA) / BRUSSELS (BELGIUM), October 7, 2008 – Malaysian palm oil exported for use in food, biofuels and cosmetics is far from 'green' – contrary ...
Forest deals set to harm the environment and reward corporate investors
Cancun, 29 November 2010 - Dangerous forest projects are being established in tropical rainforest countries, in anticipation of agreement on ...
File The financing of Stora Enso
Prepared for Friends of the Earth International, May 2010: The objective of this report is to analyse the financial stakeholders of the Finish-Swedish paper ...
File What you should know about Stora Enso
Friends of the Earth Brazil and Uruguay, 2010: Factsheet on Stora Enso's activities in South America.
A tree plantation is not a forest
Take a look at this poster on monoculture tree plantations produced by Friends of the Earth Argentina.
governments urged not to rush into redd deal and focus on effective forest conservation
CANCUN, MEXICO, 9 December 2010 – Draft texts on REDD (Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation) currently on the table don’t ensure forest ...
Amigos da Terra Amazonia Brasileira is not a member of Friends of the Earth International
A group in Brazil called Amazonia Brasileira also use the name Friends of the Earth Brazilian Amazonia. This could imply that they're a member of our ...
biodiversity lost at unprecedented rate
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND– On May 22, the Day of Biological Diversity, during the International Year of Biodiversity, 2010, Friends of the Earth International will ...
Market mechanisms are a false solution to biodiversity loss
NAGOYA, JAPAN, 28 October, 2010 – With only one day of negotiations left at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s summit in Nagoya, Japan, Friends of the ...
Forest and Biodiversity program highlights
The Forest and Biodiversity Program’s objective is to strengthen and promote sustainable local initiatives for the protection and local use of forests and ...
Liberia and Cameroon: Illegal logging
Communities in Liberia and Cameroon talk about how the global demand for timber is destroying their livelihoods.
Coalition to Save Tripa Peat Swamp Forest: Historic Cancellation of Oil Palm Permit Opens Door for Prosecution of Companies' Crimes
Latest Satellite Image shows company still burning protected peatlands
HEADS OF STATE MUST TAKE FIRM STEPS TO HALT BIODIVERSITY LOSS
NEW YORK, USA, September 22, 2010 – Heads of State discussing ways to save biodiversity today at the United Nations General Assembly in New York must commit to ...
File Barrick's dirty secrets: communities worldwide respond to gold mining’s impacts
Corpwatch, May 2007: This report, a profile of Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold mining company, is an illustration of what is wrong with the gold ...
File Failing the challenge: the other Shell report
Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland, 2002: This report is a testament to the people around the world who have suffered and continue to ...