movilizar, resistir, transformar

Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) marks 40 years as a global federation of 76 member groups and over 2 million collaborators. The organization advocates for environmental and social justice by opposing neoliberal economic models and 'false solutions' to the climate crisis. Its strategic framework focuses on three pillars: mobilizing public support, resisting the root causes of environmental degradation, and transforming societies through concepts like ecological debt, food sovereignty, and climate justice. FoEI's work spans diverse sectors, including opposing industrial mining and fossil fuels, protecting biodiversity and forests, and promoting sustainable, local food systems.

• FoEI has evolved from a small group of activists from France, Sweden, the UK, and the US into a global federation with 76 national member groups and more than 2 million members and collaborators worldwide.
• The organization identifies the predominant neoliberal economic model as a primary driver of environmental and social crises, arguing that it benefits wealthy elites while impoverishing the poor and enabling the usurpation of natural resources.
• FoEI rejects 'false solutions' to the climate crisis, specifically citing carbon trading, emission offsets, 'clean' coal, nuclear energy, gas, biofuels, large hydroelectric dams, and carbon capture and storage technologies as ineffective or inequitable.
• The organization promotes several key political and conceptual frameworks for transformation: 'environmental space' (equitable resource consumption), 'ecological debt' (industrialized North's debt to the South), 'food sovereignty' (right to sustainable, local food systems), and 'climate justice' (equitable resource sharing and historical responsibility for emissions).
• FoEI has achieved specific policy and legal victories, including the 1982 International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling, a de facto moratorium on new GMOs in Europe in 1998, and the 2012 EU ban on illegal timber imports.
• The organization actively opposes the extractives industry, citing the role of the World Bank in pressuring developing nations to allow mining and fossil fuel extraction, which often leads to human rights violations and environmental disasters.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (2011). movilizar, resistir, transformar. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/14-foei-at-40-spanish-lr.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. movilizar, resistir, transformar. 2011. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/14-foei-at-40-spanish-lr.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternational2011movilizar, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{movilizar, resistir, transformar}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2011}, month = jun, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/14-foei-at-40-spanish-lr.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }