Four Indonesians file climate litigation against Holcim
Climate Justice and Energy
Swiss Church Aid HEKS/EPER, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) are supporting the climate…
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Under Marcos 2.0: Prospects for indigenous rights and climate action in the Philippines
Environmental Human Rights Defenders
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…
PODCAST: Perspectives from the Asia Pacific region on the outcomes of the COP27 climate talks
Climate Justice and Energy
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…
What’s at stake at the CBD COP15
Forests and Biodiversity
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…
Reflections on COP27
Climate Justice and Energy
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,…
Solidarity with the People of Palestine
Environmental Human Rights Defenders
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Friends of Earth Asia Pacific reminds the Member States of the United Nations that they have a moral…
COP27 outcome: Loss and damage fund established in historic first step, but other outcomes perilously weak
Climate Justice and Energy
A historic breakthrough in deadlocked COP27 talks means a loss and damage fund to compensate developing countries for the irreversible impacts of climate change has been…
Prosecute Coca Cola Company and compensate the people of Plachimada
Economic Justice and Resisting Neoliberalism
Friends of the Earth India (FoE India) stands in solidarity with the people of Plachimada in Kerala, India, who have been waiting for years for compensation for the…
Climate activists demand end to public finance for fossil fuels
Climate Justice and Energy
Activists speak out against harm caused by Japanese-financed fossil fuel projects at the COP27 summit. November 9, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt — A global coalition of civil…
SIPA 2022 Report launched: Half of ancestral domains found under environmental threat
News Update
Legal and policy research institution Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) has launched the 2022 State of the Indigenous Peoples Address (SIPA) Report today,…
