Global coalition releases liability roadmap for governments to Make Big Polluters Pay

6FB 1200x628 c2a AMIRA ARSHAD

WORLDWIDE – Today, a global coalition released a “liability roadmap”: a first-of-its-kind tool outlining how local to global decision makers, including government officials, can hold polluting industries liable for the climate damage they knowingly cause, while unlocking climate finance needed to address the climate crisis and implement solutions. This roadmap, released just one week before…

Read More

Internationalist solidarity with the Garifuna community in Honduras

OFRANE Honduras

Friends of the Earth International condemns and voices deep concern and outrage over the kidnapping of four comrades from Triunfo de la Cruz community in Honduras: Alberth Snaider Centeno Tomas (Chair of the Board of Trustees), Milton Joel Martínez Alvarez, Suami Aparicio Mejía and Alber Sentana Thomas. Our letter to the Honduran government From the…

Read More

The military model destroying the Brazilian Amazon

09122019 CF 4310

“Scorched land is basically vacant land, it has nothing on it. This allows speculation to come in to play. Forested lands can be made in to preservation areas, but once scorched, the lands become empty, and ready for more people to come and grab them.” This is Sávio Freitas Araújo, a peasant farmer and student…

Read More

Friends of Earth International condemns Israel’s plan to annex the major part of the Palestinian West Bank

Zbeidat village Jordan valley. Credit Hamza Zbeidat

Friends of the Earth International condemns Israel’s move to forcefully annex significant parts of the occupied Palestinian territories from 1 July 2020. The forced annexation plan would control Palestinian lands and natural resources, and isolate Palestinian communities in the governorates of the occupied West Bank. It would also undermine and violate most importantly the Geneva…

Read More