[Signed by 132 civil society organisations and social networks from 45 different countries] - Click here for a Spanish version of this declaration. We, the signatories of this declaration, are calling on the European Union (EU) to exclude bioenergy from its next...
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Declaration for International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures 2015
Plantations are not Forests: Declaration for International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures 2015
Asunción Declaration Rejects all Genetically Engineered Trees
Asunción Declaration Rejects all Genetically Engineered Trees "We, agronomists, biologists, geneticists, Indigenous Peoples, foresters, activists, attorneys, community organizers, ecologists and others coming together on 22 November 2014 in Asunción, Paraguay from...
Open Letter to European Parliament Calls for an End to Destructive Biofuels Policies
Almost 200 civil society groups around the world have published an open letter to the European Parliament, ahead of a vote on important reforms to EU biofuels policy. The letter calls on Parliamentarians to take action to restrict Europe's demand for biofuels. Without...
Guatemala: Grassroots organizations criticise palm oil roundtable consultation
Guatemala: Grassroots organizations criticise palm oil roundtable consultation
Position Paper of La Vía Campesina: Environmental and Climate Justice Now!
Position Paper of La Vía Campesina: Environmental and Climate Justice Now!
Forests not Fuel
Forests not Fuel, Global Forest Coalition's statement from the 1st International Meeting on Wood-based Bioenergy - Asuncion, Paraguay, 20th to 21st November 2014
Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries
Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries, See here for the list of organisations which signed the declaration
Open Letter to European Commission opposing biodiversity offsets
Open Letter to the European Commission signed by over 600 organisations and over 10,000 individuals opposing biodiversity offsetting
‘Climate Smart Agriculture’? We say no
Serious concerns have been raised by over 100 civil-society organisations about the so-called "Global Alliance for Climate- Smart Agriculture" launched at the UN's Climate Summit. Signatories to an open letter rejected the Alliance as a "deceptive and deeply...
21 September 2014: 10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations
21 September 2014: 10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations: Dismantle the power of transnational plantation corporations! There is no “smart monoculture”: Support the People’s Climate March! Declaration by Campaign to...
Social Movements representing more than 200 million people around the world denounce corporate take-over of Ban Ki-Moon Climate Summit
Social Movements representing more than 200 million people around the world denounce corporate take-over of Ban Ki-Moon Climate Summit [September 19 – 23, New York] When we, as human beings, get a fever, we immediately get worried and take action. After all, we know...
Groups: Sign on to stop GE Trees in Brazil
Campaign to STOP GE Trees – Sign On to Support the call by Brazilian and Latin American groups to reject G.E. eucalyptus trees: Brazilian pulp and paper company Suzano wants to commercially plant Genetically Modified eucalyptus in Brazil. Suzano is responsible...
Stop Enabling Land Grabs: Agriculture Doesn’t Need World Bank’s Business Indicators.
Joint Statement: Stop Enabling Land Grabs: Agriculture Doesn’t Need World Bank’s Business Indicators, See here for list of supporting organisations
Joint letter to the Treasury opposing UK Guarantee Scheme’s support of biomass and incineration
On Wednesday 18 December at 2pm Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth, UK Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) and Campaign Against Climate Change delivered a joint letter calling on the Treasury to drop biomass electricity and waste incineration projects from their...
Letter to EPA by US environmental and community groups about federal permitting for biomass plants
Letter by US environmental and community groups in 23 US states to the EPA: Federal Permitting of Bioenergy Facilities
Calabar Declaration on oil palm monocultures
Calabar Declaration
Open Letter to the Committee on World Food Security
The Committee on World Food Security must not allow itself to be captured by biofuels interest groups, signed by 80 organisations and social networks worldwide