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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 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 ecosystem…
How our Internationalist Solidarity System responds to attacks on Defenders of Territories
An interview with Loreto de Amunategui, Internationalist Solidarity System Officer, on Human Rights Day 2022. What does “internationalist solidarity” mean concretely, and how does it link to environmental justice? Solidarity means standing up against all forms of oppression – such as patriarchy, racism and colonialism – and the various forms of violence which rob people…
The first 50 years: From resistance to transformation. How we make change.
Part 2: How we make change The second in a two-part series marking Friends of the Earth International’s first 50 years in 2021. In Part 1 we looked at key moments in Friends of the Earth International’s history and at how our understanding of our mission has become firmly rooted in environmental justice and the…
Empty words, hollow promises, and false solutions ring loud at Bonn conference on climate change
Once again, as world leaders are gathered for the Bonn conference on climate change, we have wasted another opportunity to take climate action. Civil Society Organisations express their anger and disappointment at the empty words and hollow discussions that continue to push the world, especially the Global South further towards climate catastrophe. Closing comments from…
Characteristics of false solutions to the biodiversity and related systemic crises
Although proposed solutions to the climate and biodiversity and other interrelated crises abound, sadly few are viable. Analysis of these…
UN Food Systems summit a sham
Civil society boycotting summit calls for true food systems transformation. From 26 to 28 July in Rome the United Nations will hold a Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), a pre-cursor to a VIP New York summit in September 2021. The summit claims it will provide “game-changing” solutions for the transformation of food systems through its “open…
Business interests have hijacked the UN food systems summit
Small farmers, social movements and human rights are being elbowed out, says Kirtana Chandrasekaran.
COVID-19 measures must ensure Human Rights and build the resilient, sustainable food system we desperately need
Statement to the Extraordinary Meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers, 21 April 2020: As the COVID-19 health emergency unleashes a wider social and economic crisis, we believe that urgent action is indeed needed to safeguard global food security and nutrition. Action, however, cannot be limited to ensuring the flow of food supplies. A broader range of…
Agroecology recognized as the transformative solution for a food system in crisis by experts at UN
Civil society representatives from around the world successfully put agroecology on the agenda of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security, as the truly innovative pathway to resolving environmental, hunger, health and inequality crises, and ensuring the right to food. This year’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS), 14-18 October in Rome, was held…
Agroecology: innovating for sustainable food systems and agriculture
Industrial food production contributes heavily towards climate change, environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources – and in so…
