Topic: Environment
This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown
Report / 13th February 2019Environmental breakdown is a fundamental issue of justice, and calls for overall socioeconomic transformations that bring human activity to within environmentally sustainable limits while tackling inequalities and providing a high quality life to all, according to a new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Irreverent musings from COP24
Blog / 8th February 2019At the latest climate talks in Poland, there was no soothing balm when it came to addressing issues of international equity and climate change, writes Kevin Anderson for The Ecologist.
After Paris: countries are not paying their fair share
Report / 14th December 2018A review of climate targets and commitments by each country has been released during the UN climate conference in Poland.
The people’s demands for COP24
Article / 5th December 2018These are the People’s Demands, our call to government delegates, grounded in people’s movements from every continent, that demand with one voice what is our birthright: climate justice.
Our food systems are collapsing and the alternative of agroecology has become a survival imperative
Report / 5th December 2018Dr. Vandana Shiva presents in the report The Future of Our Daily Bread: Regeneration or Collapse new evidence on the imminent collapse of our food systems if we continue on the path of industrial agriculture.
10 demands for an energy system based on people power and justice
Report / 5th December 2018Friends of the Earth International’s People Power Now manifesto sets out positive measures that will accelerate the transition towards a climate just world.
Global food system is broken, say world’s science academies
Report / 29th November 2018The global food system is broken, leaving billions of people either underfed or overweight and driving the planet towards climate catastrophe, according to 130 national academies of science and medicine across the world.
Civil society demands action on biodiversity loss
News / 26th November 2018The world is facing a biodiversity crisis, and leaders and delegates of the Convention on Biological Diversity must take real action to halt the devastation of global ecosystems. Friends of the Earth International, together with other members of the CBD Alliance, delivered this urgent call for action at the opening of the 14th Conference of the Parties in Egypt.
A radically realistic climate vision
Report / 2nd November 2018Limiting global temperatures to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is the only way to achieve social justice while protecting our environment from devastating climate change. And, contrary to prevailing wisdom, it's not an impossible goal, writes Barbara Unmüßig for Project Syndicate.
69 of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments, figures show
Blog / 25th October 2018Top corporations continue to accrue revenues far in excess of most governments, figures compiled by Global Justice Now show. Comparing 2017 revenues, 69 of the top 100 economic entities are corporations rather than governments.