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Financiers of palm oil must stop deforestation and illegal activity

Illegal and harmful production of palmoil in Indonesia is continuing, reveals a new report released today by Friends of the Earth. The study concludes that voluntary guidelines, such as those established by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the Environmental, Social and Governance policies (ESG) of European investors have not led to …

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Land footprint scenarios

This study by the Sustainable Europe Research Institute for Friends of the Earth Europe looks at the impacts of Europe’s ‘land ‘footprint’. Land is a limited global resource and changes in Europe’s consumption of land are felt around the globe.

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Providing clean water in Georgia

David Heller, from Friends of the Earth Europe, visited the village of Sepieti, on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. He met with local residents who are working with Friends of the Earth Georgia to improve their village’s water and sanitation – a snapshot of the organisations nation-wide campaign to grant everyone in Georgia their …

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Biofuels warning ignored at UN food conference

Civil society organisations today blamed governments at the Committee on World Food Security for defending the biofuels industry rather than the people pushed into hunger by biofuels policies. These organisations believe that expert evidence, which clearly showed that biofuels targets aggravate food price volatility and increase hunger, was ignored. Governments acknowledged that biofuels crops compete …

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