The Chancellor must prioritise peoples’ health, homes and quality of life in next week’s Autumn Statement, Friends of the Earth said today.
The European Union and United States are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). CETA, a similar agreement with Canada, is close to ratification.
Something’s just landed on my desk and I’m seeing red! It’s an “independent” business supplement from last Sunday’s Observer, promoting Paraguay as an ideal location for investment in megaprojects, industrialised agribusiness and cattle ranching. Inside its pages Paraguay’s President and …
Commenting on today’s launch in London and Bristol of the National ‘What Works Centre for Wellbeing’, Friends of the Earth Senior Economics Campaigner, David Powell, said: “Pursuing economic growth isn’t worth a hill of beans if it doesn’t actually improve …
With the world’s largest climate march taking place this Sunday, now seems like as good a time as any to reiterate my concerns regarding fossil fuels and that dastardly EU-US trade agreement (TTIP) that everyone’s starting to talk about.
The spread of the Ebola virus across West Africa has been fast and deadly. By August 16, 2,240 cases had been reported, of which 1,229 had already died. A total of 1,363 have been confirmed as Ebola cases. Liberia has …
Communities in Colombia are standing up to multinational mining companies displacing them from their land.
Yesterday I joined thousands of others in calling for the release of an environmental activist Natalie Lowrey. Natalie Lowrey was arrested several days ago in Kuantan, Malaysia following a demonstration protesting at the environmental impact of a rare earths mining plant …
A community in Liberia is fighting to keep their home. A British palm oil company wants to clear their land without their permission. Add your voice to the petition below to tell the palm oil company and its major shareholders …
UK pension funds and asset management companies could potentially have £37 billion invested in ‘land grabs’ worldwide, according to a new report published today (Thursday 12 June 2014) by Friends of the Earth.
This report presents a snapshot of FoEI’s efforts over a two-year period to respond to and disseminate testimonies and information about attacks on environmental defenders, contextualising these attacks within current global economic and political trends.
“For the United States, what we would like to see is a scientific basis for regulations going forward.” Darci Vetter, Deputy Under Secretary at the US Department of Agriculture
With the (English) publication of ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Thomas Piketty has burst from relative obscurity onto the main stage. Crowned by the Financial Times as the new ‘rockstar’ economist he has seen his book sell out on Amazon, …
A community in Liberia is fighting to keep their home. A British palm oil company wants to clear their land without their permission. Add your voice to the petition below to tell the palm oil company and its major shareholders …
Friends of the Earth is today (Thursday 17 April 2014) calling for the UK Government to put urgent diplomatic pressure on to Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, to establish the whereabouts and well-being of Mr Abu Bakar Siddique, following his abduction …
The Honduran state is failing to protect peaceful protestors. Communities in the Rio Blanco area have been protesting a proposed hydroelectric dam on their lands since the project was first tabled. These environmental and human rights defenders have been subjected …
The Coalition for Access to Justice for the Environment (CAJE) [1] today welcomes the historic judgment of the European Court [2] on the UK’s non-compliance with EU law on costs in environmental legal proceedings, after a ten year battle by …
Reacting to the failure of peers to back further changes to the controversial Lobbying Bill today, Friends of the Earth’s senior energy campaigner, Liz Hutchins said: “We are bitterly disappointed that Ministers did not listen to the united voice of …
Vadim Shebanov, a member of Friends of the Earth Ukraine, was arrested following a peaceful protest in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine on January 26.
The House of Lords was urged today (Wednesday 22 January 2014) to stand up for democracy once again after MPs, backed by the Government, voted to overturn crucial changes to the Lobbying Bill at its Third Reading.
