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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,...
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...
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...
“We are the ocean. We are the ocean people”
Friends of the Earth India - PRESS RELEASE Day one of the Conference of Ocean People (C-OP) to counter the UNOC 2022. The Conference of the Ocean People (C-OP) commenced on 26th June 2022 brought forward the diverse historical claims/testimonies uniting the ocean...
Japanese government announced to halt its supports for Matarbari 2 and Indramayu coal plants
Joint statement: Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES) Kiko Network Friends of the Earth Japan 350.org Japan Mekong Watch On June 22, it has been reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced to halt Official Development...
Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework underway
Between 21 and 26 June 2022, the United Nations (UN) Open Ended Working Group 4 (OEWG4) is meeting in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss the draft of a new framework for biodiversity under the the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). More than 1300 registered participants...
Climb for climate justice
On May 16, 2022, Bishnu Bhusal, at 62 years of age, became the first lawyer to climb Mount Everest, raising his voice for environmental justice, on the same day as Buddha Jayanti, the most sacred day on the Buddhist calendar. Advocate Bhusal set out on April 15 to...
