Governments from the North and South together with International Financial Institutions have been actively promoting agrofuels, to the detriment of people and the environment, while promoting transnational corporate interests. The problem Rising oil prices coupled with the need to cut down the energy dependency of most industrialized countries from politically unstable oil producing countries, has…

Friends of the Earth Brazil commissioned a collection of 15 cartoons taking a comic look at ‘sustainable agrofuels’. The cartoons…

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM / PORTO ALLEGRE, BRAZIL / MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, 10 September 2008 — The rapid development of agrofuels in Latin America looks set to increase big business profits but it is not benefiting local people, according to a new report released by Friends of the Earth International. The new report – ‘Fuelling Destruction in Latin…

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM / MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, 19 May, 2008 – Many major European banks are funding the rapid expansion of agrofuel production in Latin America, leading to large scale deforestation, increasing human right abuses and threatening food sovereignty, according to a new report released today. [1] Friends of the Earth International PRESS RELEASE May 19, 2008…

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On Friday 4 November, just days before the UN climate talks open in Marrakech, the Paris Agreement comes into force. Friends of the Earth International reiterates its concern that without greater ambition and more urgency the Paris Agreement will fail to deliver the scale of fair and drastic action needed to prevent dangerous climate change.…

Dirty energy not only fuels dangerous climate change but also causes immense harm to people, communities, workers and the environment,…

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