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Global Europe
(PDF† 47K) Jun 2007
Friends of the Earth's view on the European Commission's Global Europe strategy.
Food Sovereignty leaflet
(PDF† 264K) Apr 2007
This leaflet explores the right of people to define their own food and agriculture policies.
Shell: Use your profit to clean up your mess
(PDF† 1.2M) February 2007
Report on how Shell should fund local solutions for the environmental and social destruction caused by its projects.
Shell. Wildlife Destroyer of the Year?
(PDF† 60K) October 2006
This briefing outlines some of the impacts that Shell is currently having on wildlife, as well as highlighting the hypocracy of Shell sponsoring the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
Corporate conquest
(PDF† 147K) September 2006
Why the UK and its EU partners must stop forcing Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) upon developing countries.
Broken Promises
(PDF† 79K) June 2006
This briefing outlines how Shell's non-compliance with the OECD Guidelines harms people and the
environment, and why voluntary self regulation is not enough to protect them from the activities of companies like Shell.
Keep poverty history
(PDF† 207K) September 2005
This briefing shows why any gains developing countries make in aid and debt relief will be lost to "free" trade, and how current "solutions" are short term at best.
What's wrong with world trade?
(PDF† 215K) September 2005
This briefing looks at the world trade system and explains why Friends of the Earth believes it is fundamentally flawed.
Barclays, human rights and the trans Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline
(PDF† 74K) September 2005
This briefing describes some of the ways Barclays has broken its own rules and has infringed its own human rights policies to fund the trans Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline.
Barclays and the financing of the Narmada Dams
(PDF† 42K) January 2005
This briefing looks at Barclays' involvement in the Narmada Dam Project and the principles and laws it breaches in doing so.
What you need to know about NAMA
(PDF† 52K) October 2004
Friends of the Earth International explain why the WTO's Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) negotiations threaten the environment and development.
Barclays and Omkareshwar Dam
(PDF† 45K) October 2004
This briefing reveals how Barclays are set to fund a dam with huge environmental and social consequences that violates their green finance principles.
Not dead but dying
(PDF† 222K) August 2004
A Friends of the Earth briefing examines how the vested interests of the WTO ensured that a critical deal in July was reached - regardless of the consequences - and explains why Friends of the Earth believes the WTO is digging its own grave.
Every Little Hurts: why Tesco needs to be tamed
(PDF† 60K) June 2004
This briefing sets out some of the growing evidence that Tesco's success is coming at a high price to local communities, UK farmers and overseas workers, in stark contrast to the Tesco's claims.
HSBC - financing forest destruction and social conflict
(PDF† 156K) May 2004
This briefing reveals that customers and shareholders of HSBC are unaware that through their mortgages, overdrafts and shares they have unwittingly financed companies destroying rainforests and damaging communities in Indonesia.
Cadbury's chocolate and palm oil
(PDF† 119K) May 2004
Confectionary giant Cadbury-Schweppes considers itself an international leader in corporate social responsibility, however this briefing shows that their use of palm oil can leave a bitter taste.
GATS in Wales: Understanding the General Agreement on Trade in Services
(PDF† 140K) April 2004
This briefing looks at how GATS will affect the powers of the Welsh Assembly and what action the Assembly can take to protect its ability to regulate in the public interest.
Rio Tinto - What's yours is mine
(PDF† 114K) April 2004
A media briefing looking at two examples of the company's activities which clearly illustrate why concerns about the company's greenwash persist.
AGM Season 2004
(PDF† 133K) April 2004
An introduction to Friends of the Earth's activities at Annual General Meetings throughout Spring 2004. Contains a list of the companies being targeted and the reasons why.
UKplc in Latin America
(PDF† 766K) September 2003
The EU, backed heavily by the UK, continues to push hard for a new WTO investment agreement while British multinationals plough on with the kind of investment such an agreement would promote. Friends of the Earth exposes the plans, demands the accountability of those responsible, and shows up the WTO investment agreement myth.
Open wide, this won't hurt a bit
(PDF† 162K) July 2003
This briefing explains what a WTO investment agreement would look like and why we don't need it.
Investment and the WTO - Busting the myths
(PDF† 425K) June 2003
This briefing aims to explode some of the myths surrounding FDI and the 'benefits' of establishing an investment agreement in the WTO.
GM trade war looms
(PDF† 241K) May 2003
The WTO's Dispute Resolution Mechanism decides who wins and who loses in international trade wars. This briefing exposes how it works, and explores what may happen following the US complaint against the EU over GM food.
GATS gotta go
(PDF† ) November 2002
This briefing gives essential background information about GATS and suggests more ways individuals and groups can help halt this latest push in the WTO's expansion.
GATS Primer - Understanding the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services
(PDF†) November 2002
This primer looks at GATS and how it relates to social and environmental concerns. The issues and obligations that make up GATS and the possible implications of GATS on local communities and the environment are discussed.
Stealing our water
(PDF† format 406K) November 2001
Friends of the Earth briefing on GATS.
Liberalising trade in services
(PDF† format 245K) January 2003
Friends of the Earth's response to the DTI consultation condemns the limited timeframe the DTI gave for responses and the lack of transparency in negotiations. Our response reflects on examples of previous liberalisation in the UK (eg. the privatisation of rail, the recent maritime oil disasters) to highlight the problems with this agreement.
Friends of the Earth's evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee
(PDF† format 140K) July 2006
Friends of the Earth's submits evidence on 'International Trade & the World Trade Organisation' to the Enviromental Audit Committee.
Glossary of terms - World Trade Organization
(PDF† 192K) August 2003
Understanding trade jargon is an essential first step for anyone wanting to understand or change the international trade system. This is a guide to help would-be trade campaigners crack the WTO code.
Act Now! A Campaigner's Guide to the Companies Act
(PDF† 1.7M) September 2007
This guide provides advice and ideas on how activists and campaigners can use the Companies Act to help improve the social and environmental performance of companies.
No Deal action guide
(PDF† 166K) October 2005
Ways you can take action on the NAMA campaign to stop WTO talks threatening people and planet.
Trade activists guide: Trade, food and agriculture
(PDF† format 1.02MB) November 2001
This guide explores some of the effects of globalisation and free trade on food and agriculture. It is intended to provide activists with information that can be used to brief officials, the public or media.
CSR - tackling global challenges
(Powerpoint file - 1,005K) March 2005
This presentation discusses what Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is and what it is not. It discusses the limitations of CSR and what the current challenges CSR should address. For a downloadable copy of this presentation please contact the corporates team directly.
The Happy Planet Index
(PDF† format 1664K) July 2006
A new global measure of progress, the ‘Happy Planet Index', measures the environmental cost with which countries deliver lives of different length and happiness to reveal for the first time that happiness doesn't have to cost the Earth.
Can't see the forest for the TR€£$
(PDF† format 1450K) November 2005
This report looks at how trade talks to open up markets for timber and wood products could speed up destruction of the world's forests, devastating the livelihoods of millions of the poorest people in the world and undermining efforts to tackle climate change.
Easy Listening - a research summary
(PDF† 340 KB) July 2005
This summary shows why the Government needs a new playlist featuring more than the CBI's old favourites.
Full report - Hidden voices
Gas flaring in Nigeria: a human rights, environmental and economic monstrosity
(PDF† 1.5 MB) Jun 2005
More gas is flared in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world. This report tracks its history, explains its implications, and shows how it violates human rights and damages the environment.
Lessons not learned- the other Shell Report
(PDF† 505 KB) June 2005
This report tells the real story of living on Shell's doorstep around the world, that Shell's reports fail to mention.
BAT in its own words
(PDF†) April 2005
This report uses BAT's own internal documents to expose how it uses Corporate Social Responsibility to make a profit at the expense of people, their health and the environment.
Behind the shine - the other Shell report
(PDF† 840K) June 2004
Highlights Shell's poor performance in the area of corporate social responsibility using accounts from people who live next door to Shell around the world.
BAT's big wheeze
(PDF† 900K) April 2004
The alternative British American Tobacco social and environmental report.
Greasy palms - Palm Oil, The Environment and Big Business
(PDF† 832K) March 2004
Palm oil, the hidden ingredient in thousands of everyday products, is driving rainforest destruction. This report summarises the connection between palm oil, the environment and big business.
GATS: its local impact in England
(PDF† format 830K) January 2003
This report examines the aspects of GATS that relate to five key areas of activity for local government in England - planning, regeneration, green procurement, environmental protection and transport - to identify the potential impact.
Towards sustainable economies: challenging neoliberal economic globalisation
(PDF†) January 2003
Friends of the Earth International report setting out guidelines for developing fair and sustainable economics.
Sale of the Century? The WTO's 4th ministerial
November 2001
This series of five reports from Friends of the Earth International examines the theories, impacts and institutions of world trade, outlines the proposals for trade negotiations in various sectors at the 4th WTO ministerial meeting, and assesses the influence of transnational corporations.
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