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System change, resistance, mobilization and an end to corporate impunity.
We are all experiencing deep interconnected systemic crises that threaten life on earth. These climate and biodiversity crises are the result of a system that privileges the profit of transnational corporations and disregards peoples’ rights and the environment. Transnational corporations continue to trample unabated over the planet, monopolizing lands, territories and waters, displacing peoples, destroying…
We have a decision to make: Change the system or face climate catastrophe
Finally, it seems that the urgency of the climate crisis has become impossible for decision-makers — especially in the global North — to ignore. In the past few months, hundreds of local governments as well as a handful of national governments in the global North have declared a climate emergency. Make no mistake — this…
Change the system or face global ecological collapse says global biodiversity assessment
6 May 2019, Paris: The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change social and economic systems, according to a global biodiversity assessment launched today by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) The IPBES report is the most comprehensive scientific global assessment on biodiversity and…
Dismantle patriarchy for system change
Our societies have mostly been organized to maximize capitalist accumulation for the benefit and privilege of elites and corporations, through the commodification of Nature and our territories, the control over women and their bodies and the appropriation of women’s and workers’ labour force. This historical and ongoing exploitation is possible through the reproduction of mutually…
The magnitude of the planetary crisis requires action of a similar size; the solution is system change
We are facing deep-rooted climate, social and environmental crises. The current dominant economic system cannot provide solutions. It is time for system change. For Friends of the Earth International this means creating societies based on peoples’ sovereignty and environmental, social, economic and gender justice. We must question and deconstruct the capitalist logic of accumulation. The…
We can feed the world and protect our forests – but it requires system change
Do we care more about people or forests? This seems to be the question implicit in much of the current debate that pits forest protection and nature conservation against food production. A debate that involves much political hand wringing over the limited supply of land to do both. But this is a false conundrum. Yes,…
Gallery – How do we transform the food system?
Close How do we transform the food system? The Uruguayan Network of Native and Local Seeds © 1. Build the movement for food sovereignty. La Vía Campesina is a global movement demanding food sovereignty, led by peasants and rural workers, and a strategic ally of Friends of the Earth International in the struggle for system change…
Gallery – How do we transform the energy system?
Close How do we transform the energy system?Community solar energy in © 1. Community and social ownership of energy. BEDS, an ally of Friends of the Earth Bangladesh/BELA, brought power to the people through solar lamps and by setting up a solar energy union © 2. Energy sufficiency. The “No Bicycle, No Planet” campaign led by…
Report “Transform: how we’re making deep and lasting change”
Friends of the Earth International’s pathways to system change. System change is a powerful idea and a political struggle for…
Ambitious work to transform food systems and agriculture in the US
Friends of the Earth United States is working to transform agriculture in the US and their food systems— from toxic and chemical intensive to healthy and ecologically regenerative; from corporate controlled to democratically governed; and from a system that embodies the deepest inequities in society to one that advances justice and fulfills the needs of…
