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Vote for the environment
Dear Friends, I am an eternal optimist. I have to be. Every day, Friends of the Earth confronts some of the largest national and global environmental problems. Our game plan typically strikes at the h…
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Arturo Garcia-Costas joins Friends of the Earth Board
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Environmental expert Arturo Garcia-Costas is the newest member of the governing board for Friends of the Earth-U.S. Garcia-Costas brings 20 years of policy experience in envir…
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Getting the GCF We Fought For
I’ve just returned from attending the 13th meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Many of us GCF old-timers[1] can’t help but feel a sense of sincere disappointment. How can anyone…
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100 groups call for Climate Investment Funds to sunset
Ahead of this week’s meeting of the trust funds of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds, 100 groups have called for the CIFs to finally sunset, now that the Green Climate Fund is clearly…
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Activists project Pac-Man animation onto API headquarters
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday night, environmental activists taking part in the Democracy Spring mass nonviolent actions projected 16-story high images on the office fronts of D.C.’s top pollut…
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Over-Leased: How Production Horizons of Already Leased Federal Fossil Fuels Outlast Global Carbon Budgets
A new report finds that already leased federal fossil fuels will last decades beyond targets set by the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Coal Tax Subsidies: A Boon for Kemper
This report sounds the alarm on a lame duck tax deal that could send billions in subsidies to Southern Company’s long-troubled Kemper coal plant in De Kalb, Mississippi.
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As politicians fail in Paris, people power prevails
Media advisories for: December 11 and 12, 2015 PARIS, FRANCE – Over 2,000 activists from more than 30 countries, all members of the Friends of the Earth International federation, will arrive in Pa…
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Communities in Nigeria speak out on Wilmar palm oil landgrab: Video and statement
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 abou…
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Infographic: The Story of Climate Finance – Paying the high cost of climate chaos
Understanding The Story of Climate Finance is fundamental to understanding climate chaos, its high cost for poor countries and the role that the U.S. plays. To help us all out, Friends of the Earth U…