A growing group of civil society organisations[i] is calling on the EU to abolish its Emission Trading System (ETS) to open space for truly effective climate policies. Today they release a joint declaration that highlights the many structural loopholes the ETS…
Brussels/The Hague, January 30, 2013 – A Dutch court has ruled today that Shell is responsible for not preventing the pollution of farmlands at Ikot Ada Udo, Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. The case brought by Friends of the Earth…
SAN SALVADOR (EL SALVADOR), November 19, 2012 – An international mission organized by environmental federation Friends of the Earth International in Guatemala and El Salvador has verified systematic human rights violations and criminalization of environmental activists and communities resisting mining…
ASEAN peoples push for corporate accountability in ASEAN: Make ASEAN work for the people and not for big corporations? In the face of the looming economic integration of the ASEAN member-economies in 2015 and the widespread concerns on practices of…
Friends of the Earth International commemorates Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death on November 10 as a day of solidarity with victims of mining, oil and gas activities around the world and a celebration of all the activists who continue to resist. Sixteen…