May. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Friends of the Earth is deeply devoted to curbing both deforestation and averting catastrophic climate change. Yet FoE’s international forests campaign has been actively engaged in opposing California’s pending adoption of a program kn...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
In a press release issued yesterday by Friends of the Earth International, we asked for cancellation of a World Bank loan to Honduran palm oil producer Grupo Dinant. Here's why:
Read More »Mar. 19, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Washington, D.C. -- International NGOs have condemned a statement by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, [1] which defends the record of a Honduran palm oil company, Grupo Dinant, which is implicated in dozens of murders as w...
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Feb. 18, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant and Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Food and Technology, Oceans and Forests
When our friends at Global Forest Coalition asked us to write an article examining the links between the synthetic biology industry and trends in the forest sector, we were happy to put together the following article, a version of which has just r...
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Feb. 4, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Science and social movements agree: Palm oil expansion is bad for people and bad for the planet Just a few years ago, palm oil entered the spotlight as one of the best and brightest options for a “drop-in” biofuel feedstock (a type of...
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