Reports
Throughout its forty year history, Friends of the Earth has done extensive policy analysis and reports for all of our campaigns. Below, you can find an archive of policy reports. Select the project (in parenthesis) to filter reports by project-area. If you have any difficulty locating any reports, please contact our publications manager.
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San Onofre's steam generators: significantly worse than all others nationwide (Climate and Energy)
A Fairewinds Associates analysis of leaked internal Edison steam generator document
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Smoke and mirrors (Climate and Energy)
Analysis of the NRC's Augmented Inspection Team report on the San Onofre Crisis
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The Green Climate Fund's No-objection Procedure and Private Finance: Lessons Learned from Existing Institutions (Economics for the Earth)
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The principles for the oversight of synthetic biology (Food and Technology)
This report is the first global declaration from civil society to outline principles that must be adopted to protect public health and our environment from the risks posed by synthetic biology.
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Green Scissors 2012 (Economics for the Earth)
Green Scissors identifies wasteful and environmentally harmful federal spending
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China Development Bank's overseas investments: An assessment of environmental and social policies and practices (Economics for the Earth)
This report describes how the China Development Bank raises and disburses capital, how it is governed, and what its overseas financing portfolio looks like.
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Green Scissors 2012 (Economics for the Earth)
Green Scissors 2012 identifies wasteful and environmentally harmful programs that could cost taxpayers almost $700 billion over the next decade.
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Steam Generator Failures at San Onofre (Climate and Energy)
Report examines steam generator problems at the San Onofre nuclear reactors. Recommends that the need for a thorough root cause analysis requires no early restart of reactors.
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San Onofre's steam generator failures could have been prevented (Climate and Energy)
The new analysis by Fairewinds asserts that Edison's shortcuts caused the failures at San Onofre's steam generators
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Durban REDD Update (Oceans and Forests)
Durban aimed to save the market, not the climate
