Friends of the Earth International

Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) has been holding its Biennial General Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, since Saturday.

Around 80 people from 45 countries and member groups, and from all FOEI structures, will be setting the federation's course for the next two years until 11 December.

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At the #PeoplesSummit in Belém, Brazil, we turned out in the tens of thousands, representing millions, in internationalist solidarity.

We continue to build unity through our diversity.

For climate justice, people-centred solutions and a #FreePalestine, peoples of the world, unite!

Final declaration of the Peoples' Summit towards COP30 We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from 12 to 16 November  2025, declare to the peoples of the world what we have

The Peoples' Summit brought together over 70k people from local, national, and intl movements with a worldview guided by popular internationalism and exchanges of knowledge and wisdom, building bonds of solidarity, struggle and cooperation amongst peoples.

Read the declaration here👇
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JOB ALERT - International Program officer position!

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Applications until December 11, 2025.

Join the world’s largest grassroots environmental federation and a wonderful international team!

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COP30 Closes: Hijacking by rich countries and dire need for peoples’ multilateralism The United Nations climate talks have officially closed in Belém, Brazil with decisions made on climate finance, adaptation and the just transition.

⚡PRESS RELEASE COP30 Closes: Hijacking by rich countries and dire need for peoples’ multilateralism

Now, 10 years since the Paris Agreement and 30 years since the Rio Summit, Friends of the Earth Intl calls out the hypocrisy of rich countries as multilateralism hangs in the balance.

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The UN climate change negotiations are closing in Belém do Pará in yet another show of rich countries weakening outcomes and dodging responsibilities.

However, communities fighting for climate justice have the solutions to environmental devastation. "From the Amazon to the world, People Power NOW!"

"I'm from the confluence of the Ganges; our rivers carry the stories of the climate crisis. We need the finance to adapt, build our future, and protect our communities. Not to come and beg in an annual humiliation ritual for what is rightfully ours."

Bareesh Chowdhury, BELA / FoE Bangladesh

#COP30

The #COP30 climate talks in Belém do Pará is a playground for lobbyists. At least 1,600 corporate representatives are promoting their #FalseSolutions.

We must stop corporate power NOW and implement real solutions, the solutions that emerged from the #People'sSummit and cool the planet.

The #PeoplesSummit brought together over 25k people across movements and 70k at the global march for #ClimateJustice in Belém

The final declaration of the summit is a road map to continue fighting injustices. We will continue to come together to dismantle all systems of oppression.

With La Vía Campesina, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance @ggjalliance.bsky.social, Just Transition Alliance and Climate Justice Alliance

At #COP30, discussing demilitarisation and #ClimateJustice

Militarism is a tool for prolonging the age of fossil fuels, used by transnational corporations and rich countries to secure profits and control resources. It's a direct threat to life, climate justice and a just energy transition.

Cop30 live: Ministers from global north and south unite in call for a roadmap away from fossil fuels Representatives from Germany, the UK, the Marshall Islands and a number of other countries came together to issue a call for a fossil fuel roadmap

"There's been no progress on climate finance. They simply don’t want to talk about how the provision of finance is being implemented. If we are at an ‘implementation COP’ then money must be central.”

Meena Raman, Third World Network @sahabatalammsia.bsky.social

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TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre French legal complaint claims the firm paid and supplied soldiers who carried out mass killings first uncovered by POLITICO.

🚨BREAKING Total accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre

"The seriousness of the allegations against Total must set a red line for the financiers of Mozambique LNG. They did not sign blank cheques.”

Lorette Philippot @amisdelaterre.org

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More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

Who decides how to address the climate crisis?

Agribusiness corporations think they should. That’s why 300+ #BigAg lobbyists are in Brazil for #COP30, shaping policy to protect their profits

Enough is enough, @UNFCCC. It’s time to #KickBigPollutersOut of #COP30!
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ACTION ALERT at #COP30

Climate justice means the Global North must cut emissions first and fastest and repay its ecological debt. It must provide public and non-debt-creating climate finance to the Global South.

Anything less is a denial of responsibility.

#PayUp #TrillionsNotMillions

From the streets to COP30: The peoples have spoken, but are world leaders listening? | While the proposals from Global South countries echo what peoples are demanding on the streets, the question remains—Will the Global North governments pay heed or dismiss this resounding call from the peoples?

Hundreds of movements converge as Peoples' Summit closes 24,000+ participants across hundreds of movements are committed to fighting the drivers of the climate crisis. Movements advanced the real climate solutions.

⚡️PRESS RELEASE

Hundreds of movements converge in internationalist solidarity as Peoples’ Summit closes

Over 24k participants committed to fighting the drivers of the climate crisis. United, movements advanced the real solutions to the crisis that are built daily in territories.

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"We are at the #PeoplesSummit together to reinforce the fight for system change. We are here because we are committed to building this articulation for life and peoples! We will confront the far right with the internationalist articulation of the peoples here and beyond"

Kirtana Chandrasekaran FoEI

"In the face of the rise of the far right, of fascism, neocolonialism, neoliberalism, capitalism, these forces that aim to divide us, we come together to stand for internationalist solidarity and for people power."

Lise Masson
Friends of the Earth International
#PeoplesSummit #COP30

"From the rivers to the seas, and favelas to the forests, we rise for real solutions led by peoples, not corporations. At the #PeoplesSummit we’ve come to stand in solidarity with each other and fortify our struggles toward a more just world.”

Mai Taqueban, Friends of the Earth Philippines, FoEI.

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Transnational corporations have been setting the rules for too long, and it has led us into endless cycles of plunder, exploitation and domination.

All for the profit of a few who continue to violate rights with impunity.

It's time for #SystemChange

#PeoplesSummit

Today, we gathered by the tens of thousands in Belém, Brazil, marching together toward climate justice because we know that the only path to a just and livable future is built by the peoples, united in internationalist solidarity

#PeoplesSummit

At the #PeoplesSummit, Friends of the Earth Intl stands in internationalist solidarity with all peoples on the frontlines of a system built to exploit and extract

From the Amazon to Palestine and the world, we demand an end to all forms of oppression as we build a future for peoples, by peoples

📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees at the #COP30 climate talks in Brazil RIGHT NOW is a fossil fuel lobbyist.

The arsonists aren’t just in the building — they’re throwing fuel on the fire.

#KickOutTheSuitsNow

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🌍 We’ve joined 200+ civil-society groups to launch the 2025 Civil Society Equity Review exposing how elite capture & fossil lies are derailing climate cooperation.

#COP30 needs a reset: people > profits, fairness > failure.
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#FairShares #ClimateJustice

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

“From the #UNFCCC to our lands and territories, fossil fuel corporations are wrecking our communities and environment. Yet thousands of lobbyists roam the corridors at #COP30”

Nerisha Baldevu, FoE Africa

📢NEW Kick Big Polluters Out data on fossil fuel lobbyists at COP bit.ly/3K3wpWv

A feminist and just energy transition involves transforming power relations: building democratic, public and community-based energy systems where life, care and the public sphere are at the centre

The peoples who inhabit and defend these territories have the right to decide on them

#PeoplesSummit

The #PeoplesSummit in Belém do Pará moves forward

Listen in for the most important topics of debate: the denunciations of false solutions, the real solutions brought by the peoples, and the importance of internationalist solidarity.

The flags of climate & environmental justice fly high in Brazil!