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U.S. Congress Blocks World Bank Move to Slash Safeguards
Environmental and social justice groups in the United States and around the world are applauding a provision of the 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Act, passed by the U.S. Congress just before the Christmas recess. The measure requires the U.S. Treasury Department to oppose any World Bank policy that provides less protection for… Read More
Mexico’s human rights record raises questions for California REDD policy
Friends of the Earth Mexico and Friends of the Earth U.S. sent a letter to California officials yesterday, urging them to forego any joint agreement with Mexico on climate change, carbon trading and REDD until the Mexican government proves itself capable of guaranteeing the security of the population. Read More
Cruise Ships Are Unregulated Trouble on the High Seas
Cruise ships have become the symbol of all that’s gone haywire in the tourism industry. Cruise Ships Are Unregulated Trouble on the High Seas -New York Times 1/5/2015… Read More
Murky waters: the hidden environmental impacts of your cruise
Disney and other cruise holiday operators are trying to clean up their acts and make cruising a greener holiday choice. But why aren’t they being more transparent about it? Those selling cruise holidays promise pristine waters, cloudless skies and sunny ports of call. Environmentally speaking, however, ocean travel can be… Read More
Interview with Erich Pica
President, Friends of the Earth on their current campaigns to save the bees, climate and energy, food and technology, oceans and forests and the economics for the earth. Interview with Erich Pica -21st Century Radio LIVE 1/4/2015… Read More
New diet guidelines might affect environmental cost
For years, the government has been issuing guidelines about healthy eating choices. Now, a panel that advises the Agriculture Department is ready to recommend that you be told not only what foods are better for your own health, but for the environment as well. That means that when the latest… Read More
25 Years After Exxon Valdez, U.S. Mandates Double-Hull Oil Tankers
Oil tankers bring about 15 million gallons of oil every day into Washington state. Starting January 1, those ships are required to have double hulls to reduce the risk of an oil spill. The change has been in the works for decades. It often happens this way. It takes a… Read More
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Trade deal must not undercut Wall Street reforms
Ambassador Michael Froman is the current U.S. Trade Representative and a former Citigroup executive and bundler of Wall Street and other contributions to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. On December 17, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and two colleagues wrote to Froman: “We are concerned that the Trans… Read More
Environmental Finance, COP Blog: Don’t turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund
Posted 10 December, 2014 on Environmental Finance Last week, the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, kicked off amid controversy with news that Japan had counted loans for coal projects in Indonesia as international climate finance. (Climate finance is the money developed countries owe to developing countries for climate… Read More
Changing the climate at the COP
This year’s annual UN climate summit, known as the Conference of Parties or COP, has drawn to a close in Lima, Peru. In a disgraceful outcome predictable enough to be called a pattern, the COP once again failed to deliver what climate science and justice require to avert climate catastrophe. Read More