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Waters of March: Action for rivers in the Philippines
The Philippines has 421 principal rivers spread across 119 proclaimed watersheds. Aside from providing water to drink for 110 million Filipinos, these are also the source of irrigation for almost a million hectares of agricultural lands across the nation, and a...
The importance of a Loss and Damage Fund for Coastal Communities in Indonesia
On November 6-18, 2022, the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. World leaders, climate groups and activists met in Egypt to discuss plans to safeguard the planet's future. Throughout the conference, civil society groups exchanged ideas...
Proposed football training facility threatens to destroy protected forest land in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has announced plans to establish a new residential training facility in the Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar District, in South-East Bangladesh, on 20 acres of hilly forest land. It has been reported that FIFA is providing funding...
Study urges new law for energy transition metals in Philippines
A new study by the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) found the need for a new mining law that will regulate the management of strategic minerals needed for the country’s transition to renewable energy. “Congress should pass the Alternative Minerals...
NEW REPORT: Building on what works
A new report has found that PNG can both improve energy access while also meeting its commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce carbon emissions in the energy sector. Building on What Works, a collaboration between Papua New Guinean environmental group...
Four Indonesians file climate litigation 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 against Holcim initiated by the people on the island of Pari with the campaign Call for Climate...
Under Marcos 2.0: Prospects for indigenous rights and climate action in the Philippines
The Philippines’ former dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was in power for 20 years. He plunged the nation into a spiral of financial crisis that by the time he was overthrown the country was under crushing debt. Marcos used Philippine natural resources to enrich his...
PODCAST: Perspectives from the Asia Pacific region on the outcomes of the COP27 climate talks
In a press release issued at the end of the talks, Friends of the Earth International celebrated the establishment of a fund to compensate developing countries for the irreversible “loss and damage” caused by climate change, despite consistent efforts by the US and...
What’s at stake at the CBD COP15
The second part of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) will begin from 07 December 2022 until 19 December 2022 to negotiate and finalise the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (post-2020 GBF) that...
Reflections on COP27
For the first time since the start of the United Nations climate negotiations, a victory in the form of the creation of a loss and damage fund was won. This fund, decades in the making, has long been the call of grassroots movements everywhere, who demand the creation...
Solidarity with the People of Palestine
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Friends of Earth Asia Pacific reminds the Member States of the United Nations that they have a moral and legal obligation to implement the recognition of Palestine as an independent state and end the...
COP27 outcome: Loss and damage fund established in historic first step, but other outcomes perilously weak
A historic breakthrough in deadlocked COP27 talks means a loss and damage fund to compensate developing countries for the irreversible impacts of climate change has been established, despite consistent efforts by the US and other developed countries to derail it. This...
Prosecute Coca Cola Company and compensate the people of Plachimada
Friends of the Earth India (FoE India) stands in solidarity with the people of Plachimada in Kerala, India, who have been waiting for years for compensation for the losses they have suffered due to Coca-Cola Company’s plant in the region. In addition, FoE India raises...
Climate activists demand end to public finance for fossil fuels
Activists speak out against harm caused by Japanese-financed fossil fuel projects at the COP27 summit. November 9, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt — A global coalition of civil society groups organised a demonstration at the COP27 climate negotiations in Egypt on “Finance Day”...
SIPA 2022 Report launched: Half of ancestral domains found under environmental threat
Legal and policy research institution Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) has launched the 2022 State of the Indigenous Peoples Address (SIPA) Report today, revealing that 49% or half of all Certificate of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADTs) are embroiled in...
PODCAST: Monoculture plantations are destroying forests and communities across East Asia
Shamila Ariffin from SAM/Friends of the Earth Malaysia speaks to Real World Radio about the destructive nature of agrocommodities. Listen to the podcast here. Agrcommodities have been ravaging forests across Malaysia and East Asia for decades. Since the 1990s,...
