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You can also find more general briefings and reports under general readers and campaigners.
Agrofuels: Fuelling or Fooling Europe?
(PDF† 174K) October 2007
Friends of the Earth Europe's position on agrofuels/ biofuels.
Mining Madagascar - forests, communities and Rio Tinto's white wash
(PDF† 63K) Oct 2007
This briefing highlights how, contrary to the claims of Rio Tinto and the World Bank, Rio Tinto's mining project is in fact creating economic insecurity, social upheaval, and environmental destruction in Madagascar, depriving local people of their land and livelihoods while yet to demonstrate any real benefits in return.
Corporate Conquest
(PDF† 150K) September 2006
Why the UK and its EU partners must stop forcing Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) upon developing countries.
The use of palm oil for biofuel and as biomass for energy
(PDF† 67K) August 2006
Friends of the Earth's position on the use of palm oil for biofuel and as biomass for energy.
UKplc
in Latin America
(PDF† 766K) September
2003
The EU, backed heavily by the UK, continues to push hard for a new WTO
investment agreement while British multinationals plough on with the
kind of investment such an agreement would promote. Friends of the Earth
exposes the plans, demands the accountability of those responsible,
and shows up the WTO investment agreement myth.
Open
wide, this won't hurt a bit
(PDF†) June 2003
This briefing is a beginner’s guide to corporate globalisation,
looking at some of the impacts of corporate globalisation, reasons why
it’s happening.
Older briefings are available here.
Development recast?
(PDF† 1.67MB) Oct 2007
A review of the impact of the Rio Tinto ilmenite mine in Southern Madagascar.
A Big Deal? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Finance Sector in Europe
(PDF† - 360K) Dec 2005
This report discusses the limitations of current voluntary initiatives to manage the negative social and environmental impacts generated by the financial sector in both developed and developing countries.
Flagship or Failure?
(PDF† - 755K) Nov 2005
This report looks at the UK Government's implementation of the OECD guidelines and its approach, through those guidelines, to corporate accountability.
The
oil for ape scandal: How palm oil threatens orang-utan survival
(PDF† 422K) Sept
2005
This full research report links the demand for palm oil to the impending
extinction of the orang-utan, rainforest destruction and human rights
abuses, as well as the link between the orang-utan and UK business.
Hidden
Voices - The CBI, corporate lobbying and sustainability
(PDF† - 563 KB) July
2005
This report raises serious concerns about how the CBI exaggerates the
cost of regulation, and the benefits that it can have.
Pumping poverty:
DfID and the oil industry
(PDF - 582K) March 2005
This report investigates the role of British overseas development aid
in facilitating oil development. It finds that far from helping the
worlds poorest people, such aid often serves instead its wealthiest
corporations, leaving the poor worse off than before.
Beyond Oil: the
oil curse and solutions for an oil free future
(PDF
- 735K) Jan 2005
This report brings together information and contacts needed to stop
the conflict and destruction that the oil economy generates at every
stage of its cycle.
The Sakhalin II PSA
- a Production 'Non-Sharing' Agreement
(PDF - 365K) November 2004
This report analyses the revenue distribution of the Sakhalin II oil
and gas project in Russia's Far East.
Behind
the shine - the other Shell report
(PDF† - 840K) June
2004
Highlights Shell's poor performance in the area of corporate social
responsibility using accounts from people who live next door to Shell
around the world.
BAT's big wheeze
(PDF - 900K) April 2004
The alternative British American Tobacco social and environmental report.
Older reports are available here.
Risky Business
- An Environmentalist Viewpoint
October 2000
This paper briefly explores the issues of sustainable business and environmental
risk, offers proposals for reforms to the market and regulatory framework
to internalise environmental risk within corporations.
What
do NGOs want from corporate performance-related information?
September 2000
Presentation to Business in the Environment Conference, A Measure of
Progress, at the British Library by Duncan McLaren.
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