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A SEED

A SEED Europe (Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment, and Diversity Europe) is an European network linking youth groups and individuals all over Europe. A SEED was established by young people in 1991 in response to the UNCED Earth Summit proceedings in Rio and aimed to forge alliances among young people committed to social and environmental justice.

Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Diversity, (A SEED Europe) believe that people have the potential to change their lives and communities for the better and we aim to support and empower both groups and individuals who are striving to do so.

An African Call for a Moratorium on Agrofuel Developments

We call for:
A moratorium on new agrofuel developments in Africa. Our governments urgently need to stop and think before delivering our continent to the fuel demand of foreign investors.

No agrofuel targets for Governments in Europe and the rest of the world.

An international moratorium on agrofuel exports, until the true social and environmental costs can be assessed, and disaster averted.

Biofuelwatch

Biofuelwatch highlight the environmental impacts of the global biofuel market, especially the vast releases of greenhouse gases and considerable biodiversity losses they can cause. We campaign for regulation to ensure only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the EU.

Read more about us, find out why biofuels can be a problem, browse the latest sources, or join the discussion on our blog.

Carbontradewatch

Events which led to the adoption of pollution trading in the Kyoto Protocol show polluters successfully turning the potential threat of climate change into an opportunity for profit in the form of pollution trading.

Centre for Orangutan Protection

COP has been founded because the orangutan urgently needs our protection, especially now since the palm oil industry is destroying the last remaining habitat of the orangutan and orangutan blood is flooding on the palmoil plantations. The orangutan as our closest relative should not become a victim for business profit

CorpWatch announces release of the CrocTail application and open CorpWatch API

CrocTail application and open CorpWatch API provide easy access to Securities
and Exchange Commission-derived corporate subsidiary data

Press Release Link: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15381

San Francisco, CA‚ Corpwatch.org, with support from the Sunlight Foundation,
announces release of the CrocTail application (http://croctail.corpwatch.org/)
and open CorpWatch API (http://api.corpwatch.org/).

Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag (DECOIN)

DECOIN was founded in January 1995 as a grass-roots environmental organization to find ways to conserve the unique biodiversity in the Intag area of northwestern Ecuador. The area is part of two of the world's most important biotic regions, the Tropical Andes, and the Chocó-Darien Western-Ecuadorian Biological Hotpots. The area of influence of our work encompasses several life zones, including tropical rain forests, and cloud forests.

FSC's reliability and credibility

This site has been developed by a group of people, FSC supporters and members among them, who are very concerned about the constant and serious erosion of the FSC's reliability and thus credibility. The group includes Simon Counsell, one of the Founder Members of the FSC; Hermann Edelmann, working for a long term FSC member organisation; and Chris Lang, who has looked critically at several FSC certifications in Thailand, Laos, Brazil, USA, New Zealand, South Africa and Uganda - finding serious problems in each case.

GRAIN

GRAIN is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

Milieudefensie

Wilmar, the world’s biggest trader in palm oil, is illegally logging rainforests, setting forests on fire and violating the rights of local communities in Indonesia, according to a new report published in August 2007 by Friends of the Earth Netherlands.

Optimum Population Trust

Concerned about the speed of global warming?
About the effects of overpopulation on a plundered planet?
About the UK's failure to stabilise its own population?

Rainforest Portal

Committed to protection of all remaining tropical rainforests and the rights of their inhabitants, including ending ancient rainforest logging and large-scale protected area establishment

Save America’s Forests

Working with indigenous around the world, including in Manipur, India, West Papua, New Guinea, and the Western Congo, to protect their forests from exploitation by international mining, logging, and oil companies.

Soy kills (La soja mata)

La Soja Mata provides information about the direct impacts of large scale monocultures, specifically soy, on people's lives and the environment.

wetlands