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This briefing by Somos El Cambio explains the necessity of the energy transition, defined as phasing out fossil fuels in favor of renewable sources and more efficient energy use to mitigate global warming. It highlights the economic and environmental benefits of this shift, particularly for Latin America and the Caribbean, while emphasizing the need for fairness and equity to avoid repeating the extractivist patterns of the fossil fuel era.

The Natural Justice Strategy 2024-2028 outlines a pan-African approach to securing social and environmental justice through the legal empowerment of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The organization focuses on strategic litigation, policy influencing, and the protection of traditional knowledge to combat the impacts of the climate crisis and harmful extractive projects.

This research paper examines the tension in Germany's trade and investment policy toward Africa, contrasting a history of corporate-led 'geoeconomic' interests with a more recent shift toward a morality-based foreign policy. The author argues that Germany has an opportunity to move away from extractivist models and instead support African economic self-determination through domestic resource mobilisation and regional industrial complementarities.

Friends of the Earth International issues a statement of solidarity with communities in Santander, Colombia, who are protesting an open-pit coal mining project by the French company Colcco S.A. The organization calls for the Colombian government to protect environmental defenders facing threats from armed groups and to finalize the revocation of the project's environmental license.

Friends of the Earth International issued a statement of solidarity with the Colombian people and CENSAT Agua Viva during the 2021 National Strike (Paro Nacional). The document denounces systematic violence by the state, criticizes a development model that prioritizes extractivism and elite wealth over human rights and nature, and calls for an end to the militarization of cities and the repression of peaceful protests.

The 'Manuel d’Éducation Populaire Féministe' is a guide published by Friends of the Earth International (ATI) in December 2020. It provides a conceptual framework and practical pedagogical tools for feminist popular education aimed at dismantling patriarchy and achieving gender justice. The manual integrates anticapitalist, ecofeminist, and intersectional perspectives, linking the oppression of women to the exploitation of nature and the capitalist system.

The 'Feminist Popular Education Manual: Sowing Gender Justice to Dismantle Patriarchy' is a guide published by Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) in December 2020. It provides a pedagogical framework and practical tools for facilitators to conduct inclusive workshops aimed at dismantling systemic oppressions—including patriarchy, capitalism, racism, and neocolonialism—through the lens of anti-capitalist and grassroots feminism.

This report by Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) analyzes the role of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) in the region, arguing that they drive a capitalist system based on exploitation and the violation of peoples' sovereignty. The document details how TNCs use 'corporate capture' to influence governments and the 'architecture of impunity'—specifically Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms—to avoid accountability for human rights and environmental abuses. It examines specific impacts across agribusiness, forestry, mining, energy, and services, highlighting the disproportionate burden on women and the criminalization of land defenders.

This report by Amigos de la Tierra América Latina y el Caribe (ATALC) analyzes the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the accumulation of capital and their impact on human, environmental, and collective rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. It details how TNCs utilize 'corporate capture' to influence governments and legal systems, creating an 'architecture of impunity' that protects their interests over popular sovereignty. The document characterizes the impacts of TNCs across extractivist sectors—including agribusiness, forestry, mining, and energy—and services, while advocating for a legally binding UN treaty to regulate TNCs and a systemic shift toward popular sovereignty and economic justice.

This guide by Friends of the Earth International (ATI) argues that gender justice and the dismantling of the patriarchy are essential for systemic transformation and the achievement of social and environmental justice. It advocates for a grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism to challenge interconnected systems of oppression, including capitalism, racism, neocolonialism, and heteronormativity.

This guide by Friends of the Earth International (ATI) argues that gender justice and the dismantling of patriarchy are essential for systemic transformation toward a sustainable and peaceful world. It defines popular and anti-capitalist feminism as a key tool for achieving equality and system change, emphasizing the intersectionality between patriarchy and other systems of oppression such as capitalism, racism, and neocolonialism.

This guide by Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) outlines a conceptual framework for achieving gender justice and dismantling patriarchy as essential components of broader systemic change. It advocates for grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism and ecofeminism to address the interlinked systems of oppression—including capitalism, racism, neocolonialism, and heteronormativity—that exploit women, LGBTQ+ people, and nature.

This guide by Friends of the Earth International provides a compilation of strategies and experiences for communities and Indigenous Peoples to declare their territories free from threats such as REDD, financialization of nature, mining, fracking, and GMOs. It frames these declarations as exercises of autonomy and political practices aimed at realizing collective human rights and defending traditional ways of living against an extractivist corporate model.

This guide, published by Friends of the Earth International, outlines the concept and practice of declaring 'free territories' to protect lands from extractive industries, financialization of nature, and corporate imposition. It provides a framework for communities and indigenous peoples to exercise autonomy and human rights by formally rejecting projects such as mining, fracking, and GMOs.

This guide by Friends of the Earth International provides a compilation of ideas and experiences regarding the declaration of 'free territories'—areas where communities, indigenous peoples, or local governments formally reject specific harmful projects or policies. The document focuses on strategies to resist the 'financialization of nature' (FN), REDD projects, extractive industries, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to protect local autonomy and traditional ways of life.

This report by Friends of the Earth International documents systemic human rights and environmental violations by transnational corporations (TNCs) across eight Latin American and Caribbean countries. It highlights cases of corporate impunity, the use of investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms to challenge public health and environmental policies, and the violent suppression of territory defenders. The document advocates for a legally binding international treaty to hold TNCs accountable and the creation of an International Tribunal on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations.

This report by Friends of the Earth International documents systemic human rights and environmental violations by transnational corporations across eight Latin American and Caribbean countries. It argues that a 'architecture of impunity'—composed of free trade agreements, investment protection treaties, and the ICSID arbitration system—shields corporations from accountability while allowing them to challenge public health and environmental policies. The report advocates for a legally binding UN treaty on transnational corporations and human rights, including the creation of an International Court to ensure justice for affected communities.

A statement by Amigos de la Tierra de América Latina y el Caribe (ATALC) expressing solidarity with the Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH) following attacks on its members, including Berta Zuñiga, Sotero Chavarría, and Asunción Martínez, in the Department of La Paz.

A statement by Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) expressing solidarity with the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) following attacks on its members and coordinator, Berta Zúñiga.

A statement by Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) condemning a wave of killings of land and environmental defenders in Colombia during early 2017, calling for urgent international protection strategies and government action to end impunity.