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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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10 ways to game the carbon market (Economics for the Earth)
This guide outlines ten different ways in which schemers can game carbon trading systems and shows how markets contaminated with carbon offsets are especially prone to corruption and fraud.
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Getting a grip On cruise ship pollution (Oceans and Forests)
Authored by cruise industry expert, Ross Klein, this report looks at all aspects of the cruise industry -- from its pollution streams to its history of environmental violations to the modest number of environmental laws that govern it -- and recommends wi
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Manufactured nanomaterials and sunscreens: Top reasons for precaution (Food and Technology)
Nanomaterials are already being used (unlabelled) in hundreds of consumer products including sunscreens and cosmetics. This report explains why this is reason for concern.
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Subprime carbon?: Re-thinking the world's largest new derivatives market (Economics for the Earth)
This report is one of the first critical analyses to characterize carbon trading as a massive new derivatives market and . It finds that existing financial regulations, as well as those proposed in major cap-and-trade bills, would be inadequate and could
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A boon to bad biofuels: Federal tax credits and mandates underwrite environmental damage at taxpayer expense (Climate and Energy)
This evaluation by Doug Koplow of EarthTrack for Friends of the Earth estimates the costs of the Renewable Fuel Standard and the various biofuel tax credits.
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Nano & biocidal silver: Extreme germs present a growing threat to public health (Food and Technology)
Hundreds of consumer products incorporating nanomaterials are on the market. Many of these contain nano-silver. This report highlights the potential environmental and human health risks.
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Dirty is the new clean: A critique of the World Bank's strategic framework for development and climate change (Economics for the Earth)
This report argues that the World Bank's track record disqualifies it from managing clean technology transfer and climate adaptation funds.
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Big Oil, bigger giveaways (Climate and Energy)
This 2008 report offers an analysis of $32.9 billion in tax breaks, subsidies and other handouts the oil & gas industry will receive by 2013.
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Out of the laboratory and onto our plates: Nanotechnology in food & agriculture (Food and Technology)
This report finds that untested nanotechnology is being used in more than 100 food products, food packaging and contact materials currently on the shelf, without warning or FDA testing.
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Nanotechnology & sunscreens: A consumer guide for avoiding nanosunscreens (Food and Technology)
Many sunscreen manufacturers are now including potentially dangerous manufactured nanoparticles in their sun care products. This underscores the need for labeling requirements and regulation.