On February 3 and 4 across the nation and around the world, Friends of the Earth, Flush & the TPP, the Citizens Trade Campaign and other allies coordinated rallies to protest the signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal in New Zealand.
From Washington D.C. to Auckland, thousands demanded the legislative rejection of a TPP deal that gives corporations more power, ramps up climate destruction and increases environmental and health risks.
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Yesterday, Friends of the Earth was joined at the White House by over a dozen other environmental groups and grassroots community leaders to deliver over 2 million petitions to President Obama that call for no new offshore drilling.
Here’s what’s going on: last year the Obama administration released a draft five-year offshore drilling program for 2017-2022 that proposes 10 new sales of publicly owned oil and gas to fossil fuel empires like BP, Exxon and Shell. The draft…
More than two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s population lacks electricity, with that number growing to more than 85 percent in rural areas. The Electrify Africa Act of 2015, a legislative initiative that purports to aim to reduce those numbers, has now passed through both chambers of Congress and is headed to the President’s desk for signature. This bill aims to promote first-time energy access for…
Towards the end of 2015, we posted this video of landless farmers in Nigeria telling global palm oil giant Wilmar International that they oppose the large scale land deal that sold off their livelihoods to this multinational corporation. That land purchase was and is part of the expansion of industrial agribusiness in Nigeria promoted by the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition -- a program that provides aid money from rich countries like…
Now we’ve got to accelerate the transition away from old, dirtier energy sources…And that’s why I’m going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.
– President Obama, State of the Union, 2016
President Obama is absolutely right, and the best place to start that transition is with publicly owned fossil fuels on federally managed lands…
Listen in with AM950's The Daily Report and Marissa Knodel, our climate change campaigner, as they discuss the future of President Obama's role in offshore drilling. Check out the time between 28:26-39:30 for her comments:
The reality is that we've leased more fossil fuels onshore and offshore than we can safely burn. About 38 million acres along the outer continental shelf has been leased and about 6.5 million of those are producing. 21 million of…
The 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change officially opened on November 30, 2015 with about the amount of pomp you might expect for the 150 world leaders – and Prince Charles – in Paris for the opening ceremony. Security is understandably very tight, with parts of the Boulevard Peripherique closed and a highly visible police presence.
Listening to President Obama speak, you could be forgiven for…
Earlier this year, Friends of the Earth groups in Nigeria and the United States published the report Exploitation and empty promises: Wilmar’s Nigerian land grab, which raises serious concerns about human rights, equity and development justice in regards to PZ-Wilmar’s purchase of lands in Nigeria’s Cross River State. Wilmar responded by dismissing many of our concerns as misleading or out-of-date -- though the company did acknowledge that it needed to take some corrective actions.
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Originally posted on Environmental Finance At the Paris COP, it is hardly possible to overstate the importance of climate finance – the provision of funds by developed countries for developing countries to take climate action. This money is critical to show poor nations that rich nations are making good on years of promises to provide such funds – promises which have largely gone unfulfilled. It is also essential for negotiations in Paris to begin in…
This is your formal invitation to a recurring blog post dubbed Rally Tally.
What: Record of the rallies we coordinate and attend
Where: This very blog
When: After every rally
For our first installment ... we have the most recent rally hosted by our very own Kate DeAngelis, international policy analyst. What were we rallying about? Well, it turns out 32 countries are currently negotiating a deal that would restrict public financing for coal projects. Japan…