Nov. 30, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle chan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
As negotiators from around the world gather in Durban, South Africa for the latest round of climate talks, Friends of the Earth and our allies released a report today titled Unclear on the Concept. The key question we explore is, "How Can the Worl...
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Nov. 30, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle chan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
As the international climate talks enter their third day, Friends of the Earth – South Africa, BankTrack, and other environmental groups released a scathing new exposé on the biggest banks funding the global coal industry. The report...
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Nov. 29, 2011 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Now that the Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the super committee, has officially announced that they are not going to reach a deal we can let out a sigh of relief. That’s because, as Paul Krugman wrote, failure is good...
Read More »Nov. 29, 2011 / Posted by: Karen orenstein / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
New report shows institution lacking clean energy lending strategy and instead considering a new loan for coal power in Kosovo Durban, South Africa — Civil society organizations from around the world released a report today at the Durban cli...
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Nov. 29, 2011 / Posted by: Kate horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests
Despite repeated promises that carbon markets would deliver significant sums of money to help reduce emissions from deforestation, the carbon market has largely faltered. The growth of the carbon market has stalled and declined in the past 12...
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Nov. 28, 2011 / Posted by: Kate horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
The night before international climate negotiations began here in Durban on the coast of South Africa, a violent storm whipped through the city, collapsing houses and flooding buildings. In a tragic foretelling of the climate chaos to come, six pe...
Read More »Nov. 22, 2011 / Categories: News Releases, Oceans and Forests
SEATTLE, Wash. -- On December 1, Washington’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary will enact regulations banning cruise ships from discharging sewage, graywater, oily bilge and other harmful waste in waters bounded by the Sanctuary, a mo...
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Nov. 22, 2011 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests
On Friday November 18, 2011, Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica testified in the House Committee on Natural Resources hearing titled ANWR: Jobs, Energy and Deficit Reduction. The hearing was called by the Republican majority to promote dril...
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Nov. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Erich pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog
Lately we’ve all been hearing a lot about Occupy Wall Street (or Occupy Oakland, DC, San Francisco, and many places in between). Many are calling it the Tea Party of the Left, with its focus on unemployment, corporate greed and crony capital...
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Nov. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Michal rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
As you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family this year, imagine looking across the table and not seeing a turkey. It may be hard to fathom, but it is a reality too many Americans face this year.
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