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COP27 briefing: What’s at stake regarding false solutions?
This COP27 briefing lays out all of the false climate solutions that are on the table at the UN climate…
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…
Fighting back against dirty energy, false solutions and climate change
Dirty Energy system devastates lives Our energy system – the way we produce, distribute and consume energy – is broken, wreaking havoc on our planet and its people. When we talk about people impacted by the climate crisis, we tend to first consider those impacted by the effects of climate change as these have already…
UN biodiversity talks favor false solutions to biodiversity crisis
HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 19, 2012 – After two weeks of talks, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference [1] comes to a close here today with Friends of the Earth International criticizing negotiators for focusing on false solutions to biodiversity loss and favoring corporate polluters over people and the planet. One of the main themes at the…
Gates foundation-led green revolution promotes false solutions to hunger in Africa
Friends of the Earth International warns against damaging industrial farming promoted by the Gates Foundation at the Agricultural Green Revolution Forum 2012, Arusha, Tanzania on 26-28 September. ARUSHA (TANZANIA) / LONDON (UK), September 25, 2012 – Donors controlling the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) are representing the interests of biotechnology corporations rather…
Global Climate Action Summit: Jerry Brown promotes false climate change solutions while people power shines
San Francisco, 10 September 2018: California Governor Jerry Brown’s so-called Global Climate Action Summit is yet another exercise in greenwashing and false solutions. Friends of the Earth International is proud to join the It Takes Roots coalition, which will host the Solidarity to Solutions (Sol2Sol) alternative summit this week, to spotlight frontline community solutions. …
Double Jeopardy report: how nature based solutions threaten food sovereignty and agroecology
This report takes a critical look at the impacts on food sovereignty and land from proposals that make up the…
No net loss of biodiversity: a false solution and more destruction.
Biodiversity is in crisis. The degradation and loss of nature and species’ extinction are immense and have serious impacts on…
‘Junk agroecology’: How corporations are co-opting peoples’ solutions to the food crisis
Report exposes how agribusiness corporations like Nestle, Cargill, Unilever and Pepsico, together with the World Economic Forum, are using public private ‘sustainable agriculture’ initiatives to promote an environmentally and socially destructive model of food production, while undermining genuinely sustainable food systems and their democratic governance.
