Released on the eve of a World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, a new report reveals widespread violations of people’s rights and environmental destruction from a land grab initially funded by the World Bank in Uganda. The Friends of the Earth Uganda report provides first-hand accounts from communities forced to give up their livelihoods, …
Stop land grabbing now: Land, life and justice in Uganda
Palm oil corporations Wilmar International and BIDICO, along with the Ugandan Government and the World Bank, have funded huge palm oil expansion on islands off the coast of Lake Victoria. A quarter of the islands have already been planted with oil palm. Most of this land belonged to local communities and indigenous peoples. This is …
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Airlines urged to move away from destructive jatropha
The airlines KLM and Air France vowed not to do business with Dutch company Waterland International following the publication of Friends of the Earth Netherlands report revealing the company’s involvement in damaging jatropha cultivation in Java for the production of aviation biokerosene. The report revealed threats to local food cultivation in Java, and the exploitation …
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Beware vested interests: listen to science on biofuels, not industry lobbyists
European biofuels policies contribute to food insecurity and land grabs. Moreover, the true impacts of expanding biofuels production on deforestation and the climate are ignored in the EU policy. Vested corporate interests want to keep it that way. This press briefing explains the problems, myths and solutions.
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EU biofuel targets will cost €126 billion without reducing emissions
Brussels/Berlin/London, February 2, 2012 – Motorists across Europe are set to pay an additional €18 billion a year for petrol and diesel as a result of EU biofuel targets that have been shown not to reduce emissions, says new research published today [1]. New figures, commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe and ActionAid [2], …
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A letter to the Danish European Union Presidency
As Denmark prepares to take over the presidency of the European Union in January for the first half of 2012, Friends of the Earth Europe has written a letter to the Danish Presidency calling on it to contribute to a more environmentally-friendly and sustainable future, for the people of Europe and other continents. “The current …
