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Civil Society Concerns Regarding GCF & High Environmental/Social Risk Projects
As the Board of the Green Climate Fund prepares to consider its first high risk projects at the upcoming GCF meeting in South Korea October 12-14, more than 100 groups have issued the following statem…
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Friends of the Earth mourns the passing of Joe Browder, environmental champion
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On September 18, 2016, Joe Browder passed away at age 78. Before his long fight with cancer, Joe led the fight to protect the Everglades and Big Cypress in Florida. Browder worked…
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Friends of the Earth Rocks Against the TPP in Seattle
SEATTLE, WASH. – On Friday, August 19 in Seattle, Friends of the Earth will join actress Evangeline Lilly, and musicians Talib Kweli, Anti-Flag (acoustic), Downtown Boys, bell’s roar, Taina As…
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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.