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The document argues that fossil fuel extraction on U.S. public lands and waters is incompatible with climate goals, noting that nearly 25% of U.S. climate emissions originate from these areas. It highlights President Biden's early actions, including a pause on new oil and gas leasing and the protection of the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic canyons from drilling. The author calls for further measures, such as reinstating a coal leasing moratorium, strengthening methane regulations, and shutting down the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The document critiques the EU Commission's decision to seek advice on increasing the flexibility of the EU taxonomy, arguing that such moves are concessions to polluting industries. It asserts that the taxonomy's purpose is to identify activities contributing to the ecological transition and improve disclosure, rather than to protect 'hard to abate' sectors. The author suggests that instead of weakening the framework, the Commission should develop a complementary "significantly harmful" taxonomy to help financial supervisors scale down support for climate-destructive activities.

The author criticizes the European Commission for seeking advice on making the EU taxonomy more inclusive of 'non-green' sectors, arguing that this is a concession to polluter lobbyists. The text asserts that the taxonomy's purpose is to identify activities contributing to the ecological transition and improve transparency, rather than simply rewarding marginal carbon improvements. It concludes that instead of weakening the current framework, the EU should develop a 'significantly harmful' taxonomy to actively divert funds away from environmentally damaging activities.

The Clean Air Task Force asserts that the EU's draft TEN-E regulation neglects geologic storage, which is essential for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors and achieving negative emissions. The author calls for the regulation to cover the full carbon capture and storage value chain, including various transport modes like ships and trucks, and to ensure non-discriminatory third-party access to infrastructure.

The author contends that the United States faces a critical housing shortage that exacerbates economic inequality, public health risks, and climate change. By removing exclusionary zoning regulations and promoting infill, multi-family, and mixed-use development, the U.S. can reduce transportation emissions—the country's largest carbon source—and create a more equitable urban environment. The text calls for the federal government to incentivize local zoning reform through programs like the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to enable '15-minute neighborhoods' and low-carbon construction.

The author contends that expanding carbon pricing to the transport and buildings sectors would shift the burden of emission reductions from polluting companies to consumers and undermine the EU's goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. The text argues that the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR), which covers approximately 60% of EU emissions, should be improved by raising binding national targets and removing 'loopholes'—specifically flexibilities related to the EU emissions trading scheme and the land-use sector—rather than being repealed or reduced in scope.

The document advocates for a specific amendment to the UK Environment Bill to ensure the country adopts the 2005 WHO air quality guidelines for PM2.5, which recommend an annual mean concentration of no more than 10 µg/m3. It argues that current UK legal limits, derived from EU Directives, are twice as high as WHO recommendations and are insufficient to protect public health. The briefing highlights that approximately 15 million people in the UK live in areas exceeding WHO guidelines, including 8,549 schools and colleges. It asserts that achieving these targets by 2030 is technically feasible, citing Defra and King's College London analysis, and argues that setting these parameters on the face of the Bill prevents delays in target-setting that would otherwise occur until October 2022.

The statement argues that international public finance must shift from fossil fuels to clean energy to meet climate goals. It highlights that G20 members provide significantly more public finance to fossil fuels than to clean energy and calls for an immediate end to all new international public finance for fossil fuel projects across the entire value chain. The document urges governments and financial institutions to avoid loopholes, increase climate finance for the Global South, and prioritize low-income countries through debt relief and grant-based finance, specifically calling for a joint statement and leadership from the United Kingdom ahead of COP 26.

Friends of the Earth International supports Indian farmers protesting against three agricultural laws passed in September 2020, which they argue promote corporate control and dismantle public food distribution. The statement highlights the precarious state of India's agrarian economy, where 70% of the population depends on agriculture, and calls for the revocation of these laws and the Electricity (Amendment) Act 2020 to protect small-scale producers and food sovereignty.

The document supports Indian farmers protesting against the deregulation and corporatisation of agriculture via three new farm laws enacted in 2020. It argues these laws threaten small-scale production and public food distribution, while calling for the repeal of the acts and a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price.

Friends of the Earth International supports Indian farmers protesting against three agricultural laws enacted in September 2020. The organization argues that these laws promote the corporatization of agriculture, threaten the public food distribution system, and increase precariousness for small-scale farmers. The statement calls for the repeal of these laws, a legal guarantee for minimum support prices, and the release of political prisoners, while advocating for agroecology as an alternative to industrial agriculture.

The Clean Air Task Force supports the SCALE Act, a bill introduced in the US House of Representatives to accelerate the deployment of CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure. The Act focuses on four areas: supporting carbon utilization technologies, providing low-interest loans and grants for transport infrastructure via the CIFIA program, expanding cost-sharing for commercial-scale saline geologic storage through the CarbonSAFE program, and increasing EPA funding for Class VI storage well permitting.

The document marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement by calling for a national mobilization on climate and recovery in the United States and global corporate leadership. It emphasizes the role of youth activism, the 'We Are Still In' coalition, and the 'Alliances for Climate Action' in driving decarbonization. The author highlights the need for credible corporate strategies to avoid confusion over terms like 'net zero' and promotes WWF's 'Beyond Science-Based Targets' report as a blueprint for companies to maximize their climate impact.

The document asserts that the Paris Agreement's success is hindered by a failure to recognize that a public mandate is essential for reducing emissions and transforming personal behaviors. It highlights the neglect of Article 12 and Article 11 of the Paris Agreement, which mandate climate education and public participation. The author notes that while the UK's Committee on Climate Change now acknowledges that net zero is impossible without engaging people, central government ministries still lack a dedicated strategy or budget. The document calls for a 'step change' in public engagement leading up to COP26 in Glasgow, proposing the launch of a Climate Engagement Initiative to ensure citizens' rights to understand climate impacts are upheld.

The document advocates for a shift in investor strategy from traditional shareholder engagement to the use of bond markets as a strategic lever for climate action. It highlights that corporate bonds represent approximately 41 trillion USD and provide a critical point of influence during capital rounds. The author specifically calls for investors to refuse bonds from companies developing new fossil fuel projects and identifies the Samcheok coal plant project in South Korea as a key test case for this approach.

Friends of the Earth International denounces the killing of Mama Fikile Ntshangase, a member of the Somkhele community and vice-president of a subcommission of the Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organization (MCEJO). Ntshangase was murdered on October 22, 2020, after opposing the expansion of the Tendele coal mine, owned by Tendele Coal Mining (Pty) Ltd (a Petmin subsidiary), which threatened to displace 21 families. The organization highlights a broader trend of increasing human rights abuses against environmental and political activists across Africa, where transnational companies expand mining, oil, and gas activities despite local opposition. The statement calls on South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and other authorities to ensure an impartial and exhaustive investigation into the murder and other attacks on community rights defenders. It further advocates for a legally binding international instrument to regulate transnational corporations and end corporate impunity.

The author argues that environmental racism and a decline in federal funding since the 1970s have created severe disparities in water access for Latino, Black, and Indigenous communities in the US. The text highlights the vulnerability of these populations to climate-driven disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, and calls for Congress to implement water affordability protections, prohibit shutoffs, and invest in green infrastructure and wastewater system repairs, prioritizing areas like the San Joaquin Valley, Puerto Rico, and the Navajo Nation.

A coalition of NGOs argues that a proposed compromise at the Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (ISWG-GHG) would undermine the IMO Initial Strategy and the Paris Agreement by delaying the enforcement of carbon intensity measures for ships until 2029/2030, potentially allowing shipping emissions to rise for another decade.

A coalition of international church-based organisations urges the European Commission to reform its migration and asylum policies, arguing that the current system is 'fundamentally broken'. The statement highlights the failure of the 'hotspot' approach and the 2016 EU-Turkey deal, calling for a shift from 'crisis mode' to a system based on solidarity, human dignity, and the equitable sharing of responsibility among all EU member states. It specifically advocates for safe passage channels and the rejection of policies that externalise border controls.

The statement criticizes current financial institution commitments to the Paris Agreement as lacking concrete action and proposes two primary principles for alignment: adopting a commitment by COP26 that all supported projects and companies align with 1.5°C, and implementing processes to measure, disclose, and phase out financed emissions based on science-based targets.