Features / Victims of climate change
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13 June 2018 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
Meeting in Mozambique focuses on the resistance and the solutions against climate change
Aiming to advance in the development of a climate justice movement in Africa, a continent that will be seriously affected by climate change, especially in the Southern countries, a new edition of the “Seeding Climate Justice” event took place in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. Read more
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22 May 2018 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals
Global support for legal action to #StopShell shows value of international solidarity
Representatives of Milieudefensie – Friends of the Earth Netherlands demonstrated this Tuesday outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of transnational oil company Shell, in The Hague, demanding compliance with the Paris Agreement and for the company to stop fueling climate change. Read more
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27 April 2018 | Community Radios | Victims of climate change
Implementation of Paris Agreement urgently needed: “We cannot continue to talk, we have to act now”
Ursula Rakova, Executive Director of community-based organization Tulele Peisa, is responsible for organizing the relocation of the inhabitants of the Carteret Islands (a group of seven low-lying islands of Papua New Guinea, in the south Pacific, which are disappearing under rising sea levels) to the mainland of Bougainville. Read more
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4 April 2018 | News | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals
Shell faces historic legal action in the Netherlands for its failure to act on climate change
Press release by Friends of the Earth International
Amsterdam, 4 April 2018: Friends of the Earth Netherlands announces that it will take Shell to court if it does not act on demands to stop its destruction of the climate. Read more
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27 March 2018 | Videos | Victims of climate change | Land grabbing
Dignified resistance in Malaysia: indigenous people standing in defense of their lands against governmental and business abuses
Approximately 800 Orang Asli indigenous people are blockading since February 15, 2018 at several areas of the Gua Musang district, Kelantan State, Malaysia, in defence of the environment and their customary rights over land and to stop forest exploitation, mining and large-scale monoculture plantations. Watch video
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19 December 2017 | Videos | Victims of climate change | COP 23 on Climate Change
COP23 Droughts in Sri Lanka*
Hemantha Withanage (Centre for Environmental Justice - FoE Sri Lanka) speaks about how Sri Lanka is being affected by prolonged droughts and many people have been severely affected by this. Watch video
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15 December 2017 | Videos | Victims of climate change | COP 23 on Climate Change
Voices from COP23 - Walls & Borders
Marina Sophia Flevotomas (PulpoArt) speaks about borders and walls that block the free movement of refugees, including climate impacted peoples. Watch video
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9 December 2017 | Videos | Victims of climate change | COP 23 on Climate Change
Voices from COP23 - Dishonouring Commitments
Meena Raman, from Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Friends of the Earth Malaysia, speaks about the negotiation process at the UNFCCC COP23 and called on developed countries to take their fair share of responsibility and honour their Pre 2020 commitments under the Paris Agreement. Watch video
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6 December 2017 | Videos | Victims of climate change | COP 23 on Climate Change
COP23 - Devastation in the Caribbean*
This is the reality of climate change in Puerto Rico. It is a clear message for COP23 and world leaders from Katia Aviles-Vazquez, of “Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica” of Puerto Rico. Watch video
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29 November 2017 | Videos | Victims of climate change | COP 23 on Climate Change
Voices from COP23 - Climate Impacted Peoples of the Pacific*
Stella Miria-Robinson (Climate Frontlines Collective - FoE Brisbane) explained the grim reality faced by climate impacted peoples living in small island nations in the Pacific. Watch video
