environmental_justice-5f77c302ebbfa352.pdf

This fact sheet from Friends of the Earth International defines environmental justice and outlines the organization's global and UK-based campaigns to address systemic inequalities related to climate change, pollution, and land use.

• Friends of the Earth defines environmental justice as the right for everyone to have healthy places to live, work, and enjoy, a fair share of nature's benefits such as food and water, and a responsibility to protect the planet for future generations.
• The organization advocates for 'climate justice,' arguing that wealthy nations, which have historically polluted the atmosphere since Victorian times, should lead carbon emission cuts, avoid offsetting emissions abroad, and provide financial and technological support to poorer countries for adaptation and clean energy development.
• In the UK, Friends of the Earth highlights several environmental injustices, including fuel poverty affecting four million households, planning laws that marginalize local residents (such as in Hartlepool), and a transport system where children in deprived areas are five times more likely to be killed by traffic than those in wealthier areas.
• The organization reports on various international legal and community actions, including forcing Shell into court over 400,000 tonnes of oil spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta, securing Supreme Court orders for the regulation of the ship-breaking industry in Bangladesh, and saving over 7,000 hectares of forest in Uganda from sugar cane development.
• Friends of the Earth identifies specific regional threats, such as the destruction of forests and grasslands in South America for soy plantations used for European and US animal feed, and a 2006 mud volcano in East Java, Indonesia, which displaced at least 42,000 people.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (n.d.). environmental_justice-5f77c302ebbfa352.pdf. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/environmental_justice.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. environmental_justice-5f77c302ebbfa352.pdf. n.d. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/environmental_justice.pdf.

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@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternationalndenvironmentaljustice5f77c302ebbfa352pdf, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{environmental\_justice-5f77c302ebbfa352.pdf}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/environmental_justice.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }