Governments from the North and South together with International Financial Institutions have been actively promoting agrofuels, to the detriment of people and the environment, while promoting transnational corporate interests. The problem Rising oil prices coupled with the need to cut down the energy dependency of most industrialized countries from politically unstable oil producing countries, has…

Friends of the Earth Brazil commissioned a collection of 15 cartoons taking a comic look at ‘sustainable agrofuels’. The cartoons…

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On Friday 4 November, just days before the UN climate talks open in Marrakech, the Paris Agreement comes into force. Friends of the Earth International reiterates its concern that without greater ambition and more urgency the Paris Agreement will fail to deliver the scale of fair and drastic action needed to prevent dangerous climate change.…

Dirty energy not only fuels dangerous climate change but also causes immense harm to people, communities, workers and the environment,…

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The deal agreed last December in Paris fails to deliver the scale of action needed to prevent dangerous climate change. On 22 April 2016, representatives of over 130 nations are expected to attend the signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This brings parties one step closer towards…

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At the opening of a three-day International symposium on agricultural biotechnologies convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, more than 100 civil society and social movements and organizations (CSOs) issued a statement denouncing both the substance and structure of the meeting, which appears to be another attempt by…

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