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Legacies Newsletter: Winter 2023

"We believe one of the finest charities is to save the planet from miseries caused by corporate pollution — particularly fossil fuels."

Comments on the Evolution of the World Bank Group

WBG does not have the legitimacy to play a greater role in financing global public goods while it continues to finance activities that actively destroy these.

Comments to NEXI on Cameron LNG

Friends of the Earth (FoE) Japan and FoE United States submit the following comments to strongly discourage NEXI from supporting this or any other LNG projects in the Gulf South of the United States.

How Should Financiers Align with the Global Biodiversity Framework?

Six months after the UN Biodiversity Conference, 74 civil society organizations call on financial institutions to protect biodiversity and take action in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework  Six months since its adoption, banks and financiers have yet to develop concrete plans to implement…

Submission to Department of Commerce on AI

We agree with the Federal Trade Commission Chair that artificial intelligence risks turbocharging fraud and risks amplifying climate disinformation.

Climate Misalignment

How Development Bank Investments in Industrial Livestock Are at Odds With Their Paris Agreement Commitments Download the executive summary Download the report Read the Inside Climate News story and our op-ed  This report, authored by Friends of the Earth on behalf of the Stop Financing Factory Farming (S3F) campaign, and endorsed by eighteen civil society organizations, argues that multilateral development banks’ (MDBs) investments…

Biden Climate Ambition letter

We call on Biden to take meaningful action ahead of the UnitedNations Secretary General’s September Climate Ambition Summit.

Colombo West Terminal DFC ESIA comments

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) consideration of support for the Colombo West Terminal in Sri Lanka.

Miro Forestry DFC ESIA comments

Most plantations in Ghana have resulted in land grabbing, loss of farming land and water resources for forest-dependent communities, and conflicts between communities and palm oil and timber companies.

Submission to Dept of Commerce NTIA

CAAD and other researchers have documented extensive examples of the harms of climate disinformation on social media in the U.S. that we believe could each be further worsened by the onset of GAI.