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REDD and the green economy continue to undermine rights
Note: This post was previously published by InterPress Service. Dercy Teles de Carvalho Cunha is a rubber-tapper and union organiser from the state of Acre in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, with…
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EPA report confirms bee-killing pesticides dont help many farmers
This fall, the EPA released a report confirming what scientists have long been saying: soybean seeds coated in neonicotinoid pesticides, which contribute to mass bee deaths, “provide negligible ove…
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COP Blog: Don’t turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund
Originally posted 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 internat…
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Join Friends of the Earth on Twitter to #TellArnoldGoHome!
Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at the United Nations Climate Summit, COP20, in Lima, Peru on December 10 as part of World Climate Limited, a consortium of businesses, financiers, philan…
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Lawsuit calls for new environmental review of the Federal Coal Management Program
On November 25, 2014, Friends of the Earth and the Western Organization of Resource Councils, with support from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court…
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Indonesias new president takes key step in protecting rain forests from palm oil plantations
In our campaign to halt the expansion of palm oil plantations, Friends of the Earth U.S. works closely with our partners at Walhi/Friends of the Earth Indonesia, and we are excited to announce that Wa…
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Stop Fast Track: Reject Pacific & Atlantic trade deals
The activists and campaigners of Friends of the Earth are having considerable success this year in beating back Fast Track trade promotion legislation in Congress. The bill would grant President Obama…
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Friends of the Earth gives thanks
Here at Friends of the Earth, we spend a lot of time fighting destructive projects and policies. But sometimes we forget to say thank you for the people we love and the practices we admire. There are…
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Going out, but going green?
Chinese banks are the largest lenders to development projects in the world. As Chinese banks increasingly invest in development projects overseas, will they also invest in environmental and soci…
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Ebola and extractivism: An interview with Silas Siakor, director of Friends of the Earth Liberia
NOTE: An edited version of this interview has been published on Truthout under the title “Deforestation, ‘Development’ Connected to Spread of Ebola in West Africa”, and a full…