20 October 2017 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | COP 23 on Climate Change
A group of activists from Friends of the Earth Scotland held last Friday an action outside the national governmental building in Edinburgh to warn about the alarming increase of global warming and to demand more actions. Read more
22 September 2017 | Videos | Victims of climate change
On 13-14 October 2017 Friends of the Earth International groups across 6 continents are mobilizing to highlight the climate emergency, fight dirty energy and false solutions and to call for a people-led transformation of our energy system. These actions are part of the Reclaim Power Campaign 2017. Watch video
25 May 2017 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals
“Energy production nowadays comes together with the destruction of livelihoods and human rights violations”, and its aim is to get profits for corporations and not for the peoples' welfare. “Community resistance is vital for us, it is the pillar, the building block for a radical shift away of the current energy system”, said on Tuesday the Chair of Friends of the Earth International, Karin Nansen. Read more
2 December 2016 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals | APac School of Sustainability
CELCOR - Fiends of the Earth Papua New Guinea (PNG) warns about the dangers of a deep sea mining project to be built in the country by Canadian company Nautilus Minerals, and located in the waters of New Ireland and East New Britain provinces. Read more
19 October 2016 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
The president of CESTA – Friends of the Earth El Salvador, Ricardo Navarro, said he was “relieved” with the favorable ruling granted to his country by the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID, a World Bank body), in the claim filed by mining transnational corporation Pacific Rim. “I´m relieved because Pacific Rim, now Oceana Gold, wanted to steal 300 million dollars from the Salvadoran State”, said the environmental activist. Read more
10 October 2016 | Interviews | Victims of climate change
Hurricane Matthew is the first Category 5 Atlantic Hurricane since Felix in 2007. It has affected the Caribbean Sea passing through Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas and the Southeastern coast of the United States. The most severe damages were registered in Haiti. Read more
10 March 2016 | Interviews | Victims of climate change
The Centre for Environmental Rights, groundWork - Friends of the Earth South Africa and the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) have appealed the environmental authorization granted to Colenso Power by the Minister of Environmental Affairs for the proposed coal-fired power station in the KwaZulu Natal town of Colenso, South Africa. Real World Radio has interviewed Bobby Peek, director of groundWork, to discuss the reasons for the appeal and the environmental impacts of the power station. Read more
17 February 2016 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Social activists at risk
13 climate activists from the Plane Stupid campaign are facing prison sentencing next week on the 24th of February following their runway occupation last July at Heathrow airport in London. Due to Heathrow’s responsibility of 50% of all airport emissions in the United Kingdom and their plans to introduce a third runway, Plane Stupid campaigners chained themselves to the railing to demonstrate their opposition. The group is charged with aggravated trespassing, despite pleading not guilty on account of saving lives as a result of cutting emissions. Real World Radio has interviewed Danielle Paffard, one of the ‘Heathrow 13,’ to share her story and to gain insight into the urgency of addressing the environmental impacts of the aviation industry. Read more
21 December 2015 | Videos | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21
“We have already seen that what the world leaders are going to produce is going to completely burn the planet. No matter what happens in that UN process, the peoples’ struggles continue to get stronger”, said Friends of the Earth International’s Climate Justice and Energy coordinator Dipti Bhatnagar. Watch video
17 December 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21
Focusing on the efforts by Friends of the Earth International at the COP21, Real World Radio interviewed Sonja Meister, Climate and Energy campaigner of Friends of the Earth Europe, who was instrumental in organizing the People Power Action Assembly on December 11th in Paris. Read more
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