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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,...
Friends of the Earth India extends full solidarity to the fishers and farmers resisting the ecologically destructive Vizhinjam Sea Port
Friends of the Earth India extends its solidarity to the fishers of Trivandrum, Kerala, who are demanding immediate end to the construction of the Adani Vizhinjam International Seaport. The project is an ‘international transshipment deep water multipurpose seaport’...
Civil Society Groups urge Japan to stop promoting false solutions like hydrogen, ammonia co-firing and LNG
26th September 2022, Tokyo – The Japanese government, one of the world’s largest financiers of fossil fuels, is hosting Tokyo GX Week from September 26 to October 7. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration is promoting the so-called “GX (Green Transformation)...
T’boli-Manobo community leapfrogs to renewable energy
The climate crisis requires the overhauling of the world’s energy systems. Poor countries like the Philippines, which have the least responsibility for the crisis but will bear the brunt of its impacts, are nevertheless enjoined if obligated to transform their energy...
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[Joint Statement] The Japanese Government’s “GX Strategy” is soaked in fossil fuels
Japan should provide real solutions for decarbonisation, not false solutions like hydrogen and ammonia co-firing and LNG Under the administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, discussions are underway on “Green Transformation (GX)" to realise a decarbonised...
A Climate Proceeding Against PT Holcim Filed by Pari Island Residents, Indonesia
Resistance against the looming threat of climate crisis begins to rise on Pari Island, Kepulauan Seribu Regency, DKI Jakarta Province. Four residents of Pari island are calling for climate justice and holding Holcim accountable to the Court in Switzerland. Jakarta,...
Russia activists file first climate change lawsuit
The first-ever climate case in Russia was filed before the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, demanding the Russian authorities take measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions necessary to keep the global average temperature rise at 1.5 °C above pre-industrial...
Rest in Power Vimal Bhai
'Adieu to a True Friend of The Earth' On 15 August 2022, Vimal Bhai, a leading environment and peace activist in India who worked with marginalised communities and fought to protect the environment, sadly passed away. Vimalbhai's early days with the environmental...
Pressure on anti-war EHRDs in Russia
During the first six months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at least 37 environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) were prosecuted for their anti-war actions or expressions of anti-war stance in Russia. One activist has already been given a suspended sentence,...
New Video: Food Sovereignty: Growing Good Food
On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, LRC shines a light on how indigenous practices can fix the broken food system. Large-scale agriculture is responsible for leveling many of the country’s forests. LRC believes that a food sovereignty framework...
Blue Economy Extraction Drives the Expansion of Ocean Grabbing
Press conference Indonesia Focal Point for Corporate Accountability Indonesian Civil Society Coalition Criticizes UN Ocean Conference 2022 The Indonesia Focal Point for Corporate Accountability (IFP Coalition) reminds us that the Global Blue Economy Governance...
Groups urge 2nd largest shipping company in the world to stop shipping plastic waste
PRESS RELEASE Kuala Lumpur, 28 June 2022: In conjunction with the 2022 UN Ocean Conference which kicked off yesterday with an interactive dialogue on addressing marine pollution, Malaysia Break Free from Plastics - Stop Waste Trade Coalition joined groups from...
“Draining the Ocean, Drowning the Ocean People”
Friends of the Earth India - PRESS RELEASE Day two of the Conference of Ocean People (C-OP) to counter the UNOC 2022. The Second day of the Conference of the Ocean People (C-OP) delved deeper on the issues of the Blue Economy, Corporatisation of the Ocean and the...
