Sep 4: "It's not just that we didn't make any progress because the Bush administration refused to agree to targets," said Carol Welch, deputy director for Friends of the Earth, "but in reinserting that language, we've taken a step backward. We're worse off now than when we started negotiations nine days ago." Read Washington Post article

Sep 4 ECO Newsletter: ECO's Verdict; Cancun or Bust!; Climate Change Comparisons; 50 Ways to Screw a Summit. Read newsletter

Sep 3: NPR's Alison Aubrey reports that while the World Bank has agreed to ensure the projects it funds are environmentally responsible, a pipeline project in Chad and Cameroon shows how difficult it is to keep that pledge. Listen to Carol Welch of Friends of the Earth

Sep 3 ECO Newsletter: Dear President Mbeki; What They Said - A Closer Look at the Speeches of Northern Heads of State; Partnership or PR?; A Farmer's Bad Dream. Read newsletter

Sep 2 ECO Newsletter: Dear Heads of State; It Aint Over Til Its Over - WTO Text; Status of Bali Test Cases; Human Rights Hang by a Thread; NEPAD. Read newsletter

Aug 30: Progress of Negotiations concerning corporate accountability, multilateral environmental agreements, WTO language, finance, climate change, renewable energy, common but differentiated responsbilities. Read update

Aug 30 ECO Newsletter: Slipping Away: A Mid-Summit Assessment; Lifestyles of the Rich and Voluntary; Ten Percent Alliance Takes Off: Brazilian Energy Initiative Picks Up Steam; Don't Rush NEPAD Through. Read Newsletter

Aug 29: That's All Very Well But....The issue of partnerships is one of the most controversial at the WSSD. What does Friends of the Earth think? In short, the right kind of partnerships should be the icing on the cake. The problem is, there is no cake at the moment. Read FoE's Guide to Partnerships

Aug 29 ECO Newsletter: Globalization; Ratification on Kyoto; Renewables; Lust for Large Dams; World Bank Must Live Up to Its Obligations. Read newsletter

Aug 28: Progress of Negotiations including the US' positions, energy, trade and globalization, corporate accountability, GMOs and others. Read update

Aug 28: Bush Administration Facing Storm of Global Warming Criticism: Major Climate Change Lawsuit Filed; Leaked White House Document Exposed. View press release

Aug 28 ECO Newsletter: EU-US: Sleeping with the Enemy?; Perils of Setting a Biodiversity Target; Trade Might Not Right. Read newsletter

Aug 27 ECO Newsletter: What's happening to Kyoto?; The Type Two Tango; African Delegates Silenced by EU Bureaucracy. Read newsletter

Aug 26: "Clashes with Corporate Giants," a new report by FoE International that examines corporate impacts on biodiversity. Read report

Aug 26 ECO Newsletter: 11 test cases for the summit; Where is the draft political declaration?; The WTO Makes Its Move. Read ECO

Aug 25: Free Trade Takeover of the Earth Summit: US and EU Bullying Revealed on First Day of Talks - A leaked copy of a joint US/EU negotiating paper threatens to hijack the Earth Summit process and turn it from a sustainable development into a trade summit. View press statement

Aug 24: "President Bush's absence is regrettable, and reinforces his well-deserved reputation - flowing in part from his rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming - for indifference to environmental problems and reflexive hostility to multilateral remedies" New York Times Editorial Board

Aug 23: "Marketing the Earth," a new report released by Friends of the Earth along with other leading groups today at the Earth Summit. This report documents the World Bank's approach to sustainable development since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and how it has undermined sustainable development objectives. Go to report

Aug 23: "Business Role is Greeted with Some Suspicion" - "Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) says "a potent cocktail" of greater corporate power and weaker regulation is contributing to growing levels of environmental damage." View Financial Times Article

Aug 22: Congressman George Miller (D-CA), Leading Environmental, Human Rights and Development Groups to Give Briefing on Earth Summit with a Live Update from Johannesburg. Press Release

Aug 22: Leading NGOs call on President Bush to take serious action in Johannesburg regarding corporate accountability on environmental and social matters. View Letter

Aug. 20:Another Foreign Policy Blunder: Bush Snubs Earth Summit, Other World Leaders Press Release

Aug 15: Far Right-Wing Lobbyists Call Upon President Bush to Snub Earth Summit; Funding from Big Oil Exposed. Press Release (View Letter)

Aug 15: 42 members of Congress send a letter to President Bush calling on him to attend the summit and address corporate accountability. View Letter