This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland June 15, 2011 Dressed as the British folklore hero Robin Hood, youth climate activists were collaring passing government delegates on their way in to the Maritim Hotel, site of the climate talks in Bonn.…
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 13, 2011 In the first UN negotiating session on new financing options for forest protection since the ill-fated Cancun decisions, a delegate from Guyana said, “Cars kill people. Cars kill people every day but we don’t…
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Eric Hoffman and Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 10, 2011 Dangerous techno-fixes to the climate crisis are getting a lot of attention these days in Bonn. Two blocks away from the climate talks, the Convention on Biological Diversity held a workshop today…
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Pascoe Sabido, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland June 10, 2011 Sitting at opposite ends of a very long table are Pablo Solon and Jonathan Pershing, lead climate negotiators for Bolivia and the United States respectively. They’re here for the accessibly named…
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Marjorie Williams, International Gender and Trade Network, Janet Redman, Institute from Policy Studies, & Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth US June 9, 2011 While waiting to speak on a panel earlier this week, our talented and eloquent colleague from Malaysia scribbled a quick note…
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 8, 2011 Today in Bonn, delegates are taking a first step towards understanding and fixing the remarkable limitations placed on civil society participation at the UN climate talks. This issue has special importance for Friends of the Earth, and…
Ninety years ago, 10,000 miners rose up in the coal fields of West Virginia to fight for their basic rights to live and work in dignity. These workers -- a diverse alliance of local mountaineers, African Americans, and first-generation immigrants from across Europe -- marched 50 miles from the town of Marmet to Blair Mountain, where they confronted the coal operators' armed gunmen in an effort to turn the tables on decades of violent…
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 6, 2011 Far from the Hotel Maritim in Bonn, Germany, where the UN climate meetings started again today, hundreds of conservationists, coal miners and activists will start a five day, fifty mile journey through the mountains of West Virginia…
Erratum to the Annual Report
Royal Dutch Shell PLC 2010 Annual Report: Special Edition
Download the report.A new report published by Friends of the Earth International spoofs Shell's 2010 annual report in order to call attention to the egregious climate, human rights and environmental impacts of the company's oil and gas operations. From the Alaskan arctic to the Niger Delta, the "erratum" highlights 12 cases on five continents that expose Shell's complicity in…
Our elected officials set the tone for the upcoming budget debate early in the wake of the 2010 elections by trading expensive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires in order to extend unemployment benefits for the millions of Americans who still needed them in the wake of the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression.