Corporate power
Reclaiming people’s rights.
A just and sustainable economic system should protect people’s health and livelihoods and our environment.
Yet our political and economic system puts corporate interests ahead of people and the planet, be it through trade and investment deals, global supply chains or lobby power.
Our economic system grants enormous powers to transnational corporations which destroy the environment and violate human rights, particularly in the Global South.
We demand that the EU and the international community hold corporations accountable for the harm they cause around the world.
We are campaigning for an overhaul of the current trade model and for democratic, fair and transparent decision-making that puts people and the planet first.
We support environmental and human rights defenders.
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Paul de Clerck
paul.declerck [at] foeeurope.org
Latest news
23/02/21
Over half a million people tell the EU to hold business accountable
08/02/21
13 years is too long for victims of Shell’s oil spills to wait for justice
04/02/21
Coal company sues Netherlands for €1.4 billion for coal phase out
29/01/21
Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth win oil pollution case against Shell in historic ruling
Focus
Stop the EU-Mercosur trade deal
The EU is close to finalising a climate-wrecking trade deal with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay – known collectively as Mercosur. But there’s still time to stop it.
Fossil Free Politics
Politicians should make climate laws to protect people – not please the fossil fuel industry. We need to cut fossil fuel interests out of our politics, similar to existing restrictions on the tobacco industry.
