mobiliser, resister, transformer international à 40 ans

This report, published by Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) in June 2011, commemorates the organization's 40th anniversary. It outlines FoEI's history, its evolution into a global federation of 76 member groups with over two million supporters, and its strategic focus on resisting neoliberalism to achieve environmental and social justice.

• Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) has evolved from a small group of activists from France, Sweden, the UK, and the US meeting in 1971 into a global federation. As of 2011, it comprises 76 member organizations across 76 countries with more than two million members and supporters and approximately 5,000 local activist groups.
• FoEI identifies the neoliberal economic model as the root cause of current environmental and social crises, including the destruction of ecosystems, climate change, and financial and food crises. The organization focuses its campaigns on economic justice and resistance to neoliberalism, which it views as the underlying dynamic driving issues like climate injustice and resource exploitation.
• The organization utilizes several key political concepts to guide its strategy: 'environmental space,' which advocates for an equal right to consume planetary resources within ecological limits; 'ecological debt,' referring to the debt industrialized Northern nations owe the South; 'food sovereignty,' the right of peoples to define their own healthy and sustainable food systems; and 'climate justice,' which demands an equitable share of resources and historical responsibility for emissions.
• FoEI actively opposes 'false solutions' to the climate crisis that are market-based or potentially dangerous. Specifically, the organization rejects clean coal, nuclear energy, large-scale biofuels (agrofuels), carbon trading, large hydroelectric dams, and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
• The organization's campaign strategy is based on a three-part approach: 'mobilize' (building public power and alliances with indigenous peoples, farmers, and feminists), 'resist' (combating root causes and confronting powerful interests), and 'transform' (establishing sustainable traditional methods and new ways of thinking).
• FoEI has achieved specific policy and legal successes, including contributing to the 1982 International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling, the 1998 collapse of the OECD's Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), and pushing for an EU ban on illegal timber imports effective in 2012.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (2011). mobiliser, resister, transformer international à 40 ans. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/13-foei-at-40-french-lr.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. mobiliser, resister, transformer international à 40 ans. 2011. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/13-foei-at-40-french-lr.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternational2011mobiliser, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{mobiliser, resister, transformer international à 40 ans}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2011}, month = jun, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/13-foei-at-40-french-lr.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }