Big polluters threaten progress at Plastics Treaty Negotiations
News Update
Corporations and Fossil Fuel producers undermine progress at global Plastic Treaty negotiations at the third UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) session…
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Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific demands for the binding treaty on plastics
Economic Justice and Resisting Neoliberalism
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific is active in the process of developing an ambitious new global plastics treaty that seeks to end plastic pollution by dramatically…
Reflections on a year into the Marcos Jr. Presidency
Climate Justice and Energy
June 30 marks Year 1 of the regime under Philippine president Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr., son of previously deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The Philippines is…
Podcast: A Year into the Marcos 2.0 Regime
Climate Justice and Energy
June 30 marks the full circle of the first year under Philippine president Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr., son of previously deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The…
Community forest management: turning the tide on deforestation in Indonesia
Forests and Biodiversity
For decades Friends of the Earth Indonesia/WALHI has been developing a community-led model to protect the country’s forests. It is based on recognising the land rights…
Report “Transform: how we’re making deep and lasting change”
News Update
Friends of the Earth International’s pathways to system change. System change is a powerful idea and a political struggle for a better world. Powerful because it’s about…
Save Sat Masjid Road Trees
News Update
In January 2023, the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) began rebuilding the traffic divider by cutting down trees on Sat Masjid Road in Dhanmondi. The traffic divider…
Historic negotiations on global plastic treaty move forward despite attempts from polluting interests to delay
Economic Justice and Resisting Neoliberalism
3 June 2023, Paris The second round of negotiations for a new global treaty to end plastic pollution has concluded in Paris, France. After five days of negotiations,…
Nusantara Fund: direct funding to IPLCs to scale up climate crises mitigation
Climate Justice and Energy
It was a sunny afternoon when we were warmly greeted by a group of farmers uphills in Kamojang, West Java. We had travelled by motorcycle on a twisting, muddy dirt road…
Meet Asia’s zero-waste warriors fighting for a new global plastics treaty
Economic Justice and Resisting Neoliberalism
A new global plastics treaty might become reality this week, when heads of State, Ministers of Environment and other representatives from 175 countries will meet in…
