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Stop the eviction: Solidarity with the peoples of Rempang Island, Indonesia
WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) denounces the violent repression of people who gathered in protest against the National Strategic Program to build an ‘Eco-City’ on Rempang Island without the consent of local residents. Friends of the Earth International expresses internationalist solidarity in the wake of the events. Violent clashes on Rempang Island On 7…
Read MoreAchieving a Just Transition: how can we scale-up renewables in a fair way?
As demand grows for clean energy, we explore the questions of why and how to scale-up renewables in a fair way. The necessary shift away from fossil fuels must not be ‘just a transition’, but a system change, which puts people and justice at the forefront: a true ‘just transition’. Urgency of the Just Transition…
Read MoreLooming environmental catastrophe highlights urgency of lifting illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip
Since June 2007, Israel’s 16-year illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip has denied the free movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza. In 2016, the UN Secretary-General called it “a collective punishment for which there must be accountability”. Friends of Earth International strongly condemns the ongoing Israeli violations against the Gaza Strip,…
Read MorePress release: Developed countries continue to shirk responsibility at Bonn climate talks
For immediate release. 15 June 2023, Bonn. Bonn climate talks: a fraught session of UN talks closes today, where developed countries blocked progress and backtracked on agreed commitments within the international climate process, leading to failures to agree even the agenda until the closing days. This fight over an agenda reveals deepening faultlines: developed countries…
Read MoreMeet Asia’s zero-waste warriors fighting for a new global plastics treaty
A new global plastics treaty might become reality this week, when heads of State, Ministers of Environment and other representatives from 175 countries will meet in Paris for the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. The negotiations will address the entire lifecycle of plastic,…
Read MoreAmbitious 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…
Read MoreMeet the people of Pari Island standing up for climate justice
The latest IPCC climate science report has confirmed that human-made climate change is worsening, and the impacts of increasingly extreme weather are felt more keenly by vulnerable regions, mainly in the Global South. The people of Pari Island, in Indonesia, are already experiencing the catastrophic consequences of climate change: in 2021, massive floods damaged their…
Read MoreDefend collective rights to protect forests and biodiversity
What are collective rights? Why are they integral to protecting biodiversity and forest and how can we make them a reality? Collective rights are human rights that protect communities and the environment Collective rights emerged because individual human rights do not adequately protect peoples living collectively, especially Indigenous peoples, local communities and other minorities. Collective…
Read MorePress release: Pari Island climate case against Holcim
Swiss Church Aid HEKS/EPER, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) are supporting the climate litigation Pari Island against Holcim initiated by the people on the island of Pari with the campaign Call for Climate Justice. Press release and invitation to press briefing, 1 February 2023.…
Read MoreFriends of the Earth finds the new global biodiversity framework “not fit for purpose”
Press release. Monday 19 December 2022. Montreal – The new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) announced today fails to lay the groundwork for the transformational change needed to address the biodiversity crisis. The Chinese presidency adopted the text despite clear opposition from the Democratic Republic of Congo, ignoring a process the COP15 president himself had laid…
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