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May 25, 2023
Asia is drowning in plastic, with national production and imports from the global north having devastating environmental and public health impacts. According to a report by Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific, most South and East Asian countries lack proper waste...
May 19, 2023
FoE Japan 350.org Japan Fridays For Future Hiroshima Research Center for Environmental and Sustainable Society (JACSES) On the 18th, the day before the G7 Hiroshima Summit, approximately 15 environmental groups from Japan and overseas gathered in Hiroshima...
April 11, 2023
Friends of the Earth Japan sent the letter to Japan’s Minister of the Environment, Akihiro Nishimura, ahead of the G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment to be held in Sapporo on April 15 and 16, 2023. At the G7 summit in Germany last year, G7...
March 14, 2023
The Philippines has 421 principal rivers spread across 119 proclaimed watersheds. Aside from providing water to drink for 110 million Filipinos, these are also the source of irrigation for almost a million hectares of agricultural lands across the nation, and a...
February 20, 2023
On November 6-18, 2022, the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. World leaders, climate groups and activists met in Egypt to discuss plans to safeguard the planet’s future. Throughout the conference, civil society groups exchanged...
February 13, 2023
The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has announced plans to establish a new residential training facility in the Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar District, in South-East Bangladesh, on 20 acres of hilly forest land. It has been reported that FIFA is providing funding...
February 8, 2023
A new study by the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) found the need for a new mining law that will regulate the management of strategic minerals needed for the country’s transition to renewable energy. “Congress should pass the Alternative Minerals...
February 5, 2023
A new report has found that PNG can both improve energy access while also meeting its commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce carbon emissions in the energy sector. Building on What Works, a collaboration between Papua New Guinean environmental group...
December 11, 2022
The Philippines’ former dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was in power for 20 years. He plunged the nation into a spiral of financial crisis that by the time he was overthrown the country was under crushing debt. Marcos used Philippine natural resources to enrich his...
December 7, 2022
In a press release issued at the end of the talks, Friends of the Earth International celebrated the establishment of a fund to compensate developing countries for the irreversible “loss and damage” caused by climate change, despite consistent efforts by the US and...
The second part of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) will begin from 07 December 2022 until 19 December 2022 to negotiate and finalise the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (post-2020 GBF) that...
December 6, 2022
For the first time since the start of the United Nations climate negotiations, a victory in the form of the creation of a loss and damage fund was won. This fund, decades in the making, has long been the call of grassroots movements everywhere, who demand the creation...
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