This week, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) released a statement to express disappointment over the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which was finalized during the Convention on Biological Diversity's Conference of the Parties (COP15) this month.

On December 15, 2022, 90 civil society groups from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the world called on Chinese authorities and actors to protect biodiversity and people in its overseas investments.

The briefing is part of civil society’s efforts to critique the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and its first draft, exposing how the TNFD could enable widespread greenwashing.

For years, WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia has been a crucial watchdog of the Indonesian government, which has been criticized for facilitating unsustainable projects in the Komodo National Park. Recently, they are raising concerns regarding tourism developments in and around the Park. WALHI’s paper, "Komodo National Park: The Only Home of Komodo Dragons in Peril,” exposes the negative environmental and social impacts of unchecked tourism development on the Komodo ecosystem and the Indigenous peoples who live in the park.

A recent article by Al Jazeera highlights the backwards thinking around the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which would pose serious threats to several highly biodiverse and critical ecosystems, including at least four of the Banks and Biodiversity No Go Areas. The project’s key developers, Total Energies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, claim to be committed to minimizing the pipeline’s environmental impacts, but turn a blind eye to the fact that EACOP should have been prohibited from the start, by virtue of its location.