Bali/Amsterdam, June 1, 2002 – Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) today launches a campaign for new global rules for business to be signed up to at the Earth Summit, in Johannesburg this August [1]. Under the slogan “Don´t let big business rule the world”, FOEI is collecting demands to world leaders from individuals around the…

May 14, 2002 – There are now fewer than four months to the Earth Summit – the first major summit dealing with sustainable development since Rio in 1992. Despite some important achievements, Rio failed to deliver the real changes necessary to protect the environment for future generations. Since then, political will has waned, corporate influence has grown…

February 28,  2002 – The Earth Summit is less than six months away. It will be the first major summit addressing sustainable development since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The 1992 Earth Summit firmly put sustainable development on the map. However, despite gains in some areas, it failed to deliver the real changes necessary to…

February 14, 2002 – The plan seeks to confuse American voters and the rest of world by recommending a ceiling on greenhouse gas intensity [1] which will actually allow for continued increases in US greenhouse gas emissions. The 18% intensity ‘reduction’ target does not even require slower emissions growth: between 1990 and 2000, US greenhouse gas…

November 11, 2001 – Friends of the Earth gave a cautious welcome to the agreement adopted in Marrakech – despite coordinated and persistent obstruction by Japan, Canada and Russia (the Umbrella Group). The Marrakech deal preserves major elements of the Bonn Agreement made in July, providing no reason for countries not to go ahead and…

November 6, 2001 – The World Trade Organisation will be holding its fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, the capital of gulf state Qatar, from Friday 9 to Tuesday 13th November. The talks will see attempts by both the United States and European Union to launch a “new round” of trade negotiations, to extend the remit…

November 1, 2001 – Negotiations have finally started in earnest in Marrakech, with governments locked in contact groups to agree on the outstanding technical and legal aspects of the Bonn accord. These technical agreements will be forwarded as draft Decisions to ministers as they arrive next Wednesday. The only Kyoto Protocol issue that was not…

October 31, 2001 – Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) and other Global Forest Coalition members announced three nominations for a special TREETANIC AWARD this afternoon. The TREETANIC AWARD is handed over during the climate negotiations to the company implementing the worst carbon sink project. FoEI and other groups are highly concerned that the decisions…

October 30, 2001 – Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) is an international federation of 68 independent national organizations from both North and South working on issues relating to environmental management, natural resources conservation, and social justice and equity. Its member groups campaign internationally, nationally and locally on the most urgent environmental and social issues…

July 23, 2001 – The Kyoto Protocol has survived the best efforts of George W Bush and the US administration to kill it off. But obstructive behaviour by members of the Umbrella Group has forced Mr Pronk and countries supporting the Protocol to water it down substantially. Forest “sinks” at home and in developing countries,…