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The peoples’ solutions to the climate crisis
Social movements and organizations gathered on Isla Margarita, Venezuela between July 15-18 to discuss their demands ahead of United Nations climate talks due to take place in Lima, Peru in December. The meeting, organized by the Venezuelan government, was the first of its kind. It brought together social movements and organizations from all over the…
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 Earth International urgently calls on governments to reject false solutions to halt biodiversity loss, such as trading biodiversity credits and other market-based mechanisms. “It is urgent that the world…
Climate crisis: politicians must find just solutions
BONN, GERMANY, JUNE 5, 2009 – On World Environment Day, leaders of industrialised nations have been criticised for failing to do their homework on climate change. At the end of the first week of the UN climate conference in Bonn, 50 young activists from Young Friends of the Earth Europe and Friends of the Earth…
Global mobilisation to demand real action at the CBD COP15
From Argentina to Sri Lanka the people call for system change to tackle the biodiversity crisis. As the long awaited UN biodiversity conference draws closer, Friends of the Earth International’s members around the world have come together in a mobilisation to demand real action and meaningful policies at the CBD COP15. The United Nations Convention…
What is biodiversity and why is the CBD COP15 so important?
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15 starts in Montreal on 7 December. Parties will negotiate and hopefully agree on a global framework that will define biodiversity policies for the next decade. We interviewed Nele Marien, the forests and biodiversity programme coordinator at Friends of the Earth International, to find out why these biodiversity…
Press release: Slow progress at COP27 as loss and damage fund hangs in the balance
PRESS RELEASE – Friday 18 November 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt) – for immediate release Taking place under the shadow of Egypt’s oppressive regime, COP27 has seen slow progress with the US play a deeply obstructive role yet again, blocking the demands of developing countries at every turn. Indigenous Peoples and frontline communities are already suffering…
Press release: Justice and equity must accompany every decision at COP27
Friday 4 November 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt) – To stem runaway climate change, COP27 must steer away from seductive-sounding ‘nature-based solutions’ and geoengineering fixes, and instead focus on cutting fossil fuel emissions at source, say Friends of the Earth International on the eve of the UN climate talks. Activists and experts from the world’s largest grassroots…
Friends of the Earth International at COP27
*** Spokespeople available for comment and interview *** Friends of the Earth International, the world’s largest grassroots environmental network, hosts a delegation of experts and activists at the UN climate talks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Friends of the Earth will bring voices from across Africa and the world inside the COP conference halls, to…
Each year, a Friends of the Earth International delegation of activists and experts go to the UNFCCC COP to make our calls for climate justice, equity and action heard. We join our allies, including the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice and many others, to bring the voices of those most impacted by climate change…
Linking alternatives: building peasant agroecology in Togo
Togo is one of the smallest countries in Africa and home to 8.6 million people. Since the shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, increasingly extreme weather and recent food price rises, the state of food security in Togo has greatly deteriorated. In 2022, 1 in 5 people in the country don’t have access to or can’t afford…
