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Community Dialogue in Boboloè Kopé
As part of the Energy Transition Fund project ( ETF), a mission of Friends of the Earth-Togo held on Thursday, March 16, 2023, the first community dialogue. This mission, composed of the project coord...Article 2
Launch ETF Project 2023
At the press conference on December 31, 2023 to its headquarters, Friends of the Earth-Togo (ADT-Togo), in front of an audience of journalists, launched the 2023 Energy Transition Funds (ETF) Project...Article 3
Training of local communities on export credit agencies and climate change
A training workshop took place on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, at CESAL, Lomé-Tokoin, at; towards the communities of Gbétsogbé, Katanga and Doevi-kopé, in order to extend th...
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COMMUNITY MEETING IN DOEVIKOPE
Les Amis de la Terre-Togo a réuni le 15 décembre 2022 à Doévikopé, (Canton de Baguida) les communautés de Doévikopé, Gbétsogbé et ...Article 6
public lecture on fossil fuels
Friends of the Earth-Togo organized on 25 November 2022, in the OCDI conference room at Tokoin Césal, Lomé, a public conference on fossil fuels, at; the intention of about thirty ...Article 7
Tackling the global food crisis by changing the system
We are currently in the midst of the third major food crisis of these 15 last years. But these fits didn't fall from the sky. They are the result of a system unjust global food system that...Article 8
Agroecological Field-School Visit
As part of the implementation of the “Capacity Building to Consolidate National Sovereignty project food in Togo - connecting to the movement in Africa », farmers, farmer and herder organ...Article 9
Forum on Renewable Energy and Just Energy Transition
One month after Atakpamé, located to 161.4 Km from Lomé, the Togolese capital,Friends of the Earth-Togo organized; to Sokodé, (340.6 km from Lomé), September 1st, 2022...Article 10
END THE IMPUNITY OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
A little over a month after the CASEF’s workshop on strengthening the African region in put an end to; impunity multinational companies, which brought together about twenty organizations for th...Article 11
impact of the increase in butane gas prices on the environment in Togo
Environmental impact of rising butane gas prices in Togo 1. What’s what can make stoves prefer or always use charcoal even if they have butane gas? ; The populati...Article 12
FORUM ON RENEWABLE ENERGY AND THE JUST ENERGY TRANSITION IN TOGO
As part of the continued implementation of “ Campaign not available the exploitation of oil in Togo”, whose objective is the promotion of renewable energies for the benefit of communi...Article 13
TRAINING ON THE IMPACT OF THE USE OF CHEMICALS ON FARMERS IN THE SOUTHERN ZONE OF TOGO
Friends of the Earth–Togo ( ADT-Togo) has a dedicated program; to sovereignty food and to biodiversity. This deals, among other things, with issues of the effective management of protected areas...Article 14
Strengthening the African region to end impunity for TNCs
As part of the project to strengthen the African region in put an end to; impunity Transnational Corporations (STN), Friends of the Earth Togo organized; on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at; the Entente roo...Article 15
Friends of the Earth Togo and fishermen meet the Director of Fisheries
On July 06, 2022, a delegation consisting of Adam Derman, Syndicate National Fishermen of Togo (SYNAPETO); HANSON Véronique and SOMI K. Pascal< /strong> (Doévikopé comm...
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Meetings with fishing communities on the Togolese coasts
On Friday April 29 and May 06, 2022, a mission of the NGO “Friends of the Earth-Togo” held discussion meetings with fishermen. This mission was composed of Cyril Mensah (Commu...Article 18
Minamata COP 4 resulted in progress
From 21 to March 25, 2022, held at Bali, Indonesia, the fourth Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention, which aims to protect health and the environment of anthropogenic mercury emissions...Article 19
Evaluation of studies on adaptation and mitigation in Togo's NDCs
In order to heighten their ambition both for the atté nuation that for adaptation to climate change, the Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to review their Nationally Determined Contri...Article 20
blocking a just transition
This Thursday, March 03, 2022, Milieudefensie, 19 African partners (see all partners below), Banktrack and Oil Change International published; our report ¨Locked out of a Just Transition: fossil f...Article 21
Escape sessions to de-stress from Covid-19
In response to the health crisis linked to Covid-19, IPEN has launched; 2 surveys at; the intention of its members. At the end of the second, IPEN decided; to grant funding to; members who have reques...Article 22
Launch of the Good Agroecological Practices Magazine
On November 29, 2021, Friends of the Earth Togo conducted a the launch of the magazine on good agroecological practices and community management of forests. The presentation of the document has ...Article 23
VALIDATION OF THE ADVOCACY DOCUMENT FOR CHALLENGING THE IMPUNITY OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
Friends of the Earth-Togo organized; on September 22 and 23, 2021, at; Lomé a training workshop on the treaty process UN binding on TNCs and human rights, in order to mobilize public opinion on the n...Article 24
TRAINING ON THE UN BINDING TREATY PROCESS ON TNCS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Human rights violations perpetrated by transnational corporations (TNCs) require drastic measures to be taken, and without delay. From experience, the factory disaster in Dhaka, (Bangladesh), on April...Article 25
EXCHANGES AND SHARING OF EXPERIENCES IN AGROECOLOGY
A mission led by the NGO Friends of the Earth-Togo, went on November 12 and 13, 2021 to the Agroecological and Rural Development Center (CADR) in Togo. Kumah-Konda. This mission was made up of those i...Article 26
THIRD EDITION: WEST AFRICAN CARAVAN RIGHT TO LAND, WATER AND PEASANT AGROECOLOGY
Friends of the Earth-Togo, in collaboration with the Global Convergence for Land and Water have launched; on Friday, November 12, 2021, at; Tokoin Cesal, Lomé, the 3rd edition of the West Afric...Article 27
RAISING AWARENESS AND DEMANDING NATIONAL REGULATIONS UNTIL 2022 ON LEAD PAINT
Lead paint is one of the main sources of lead exposure today. According to the United States Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, in 2013, the majority of lead contained in paints was the cause...
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GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES IN ROAD REHABILITATION
“ The road to development is through the development of the road » goes the saying. The Togolese government has understood it so well that it has integrated it. in its outlook.Indeed, the ...Article 30
AFRICAN AND WORLD CLIMATE JUSTICE DAYS
On November 5 and 6, 2021, marked respectively the African and World Days of Climate Justice. As usual, Friends of the Earth Togo has scored; these days with actions and messages for the climate cause...Article 31
INCENTIVE INITIATIVES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROVISIONS
The Minamata Convention contains provisions in the second part of Annex A which relate to « measures a Party must take to phase out the use of dental amalgam ». These measures must meet ce...Article 32
ADVOCACY IN FAVOR OF TAX EXEMPTION ON
Dental amalgam (maté mercury-based product used to seal the cavities resulting from the elimination of dental tissue affected by caries) is a cause of serious illnesses and major pollution. The...Article 33
ADVOCACY FOR UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS
Dental amalgams (materials based on mercury used to seal the cavities resulting from the elimination of dental tissue affected by caries) would be « one of the medical scandals of the 20th centu...Article 34
END DIRTY ENERGY FUNDING IN AFRICA
Since the signing of the Agreement of Paris on the climate, the rich countries provided almost 50 times more support to export to both fossil fuel and clean energy projects in four African countries. ...Article 35
NO TO OIL EXPLOITATION IN TOGO: COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION
As part of its « No to Petroleum Exploitation in Togo » which is part of the regional project Frontline resistance to oil and gas and Coordinated campaigning for climate justice and Just e...
Press Releases / Statements
Stop RDIE
Open letter from the organizations on the dispute resolution mechanism between
Investors and States (ISDS) and COVID -19.
The international community is committed to reforming the mechanism for settling
investor-state disputes (ISDS)
due to the high financial burden of arbitration proceedings and its impact on
public services, the environment, health,
the taxation, land and economies of the countries of the South...
statement against xenophobia in RSA
Barely recovered from the cyclones in southern Africa, an expression of the effects of the changes
climatic conditions, in particular cyclones Idai and
Kenneth who killed and displaced people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and
South Africa, we are witnessing today,
with pain and dismay, to the killings, beatings and violence against women in
Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa...
Friends of the Earth press release Africa
Friends of the Earth Africa groups have described the convergence of businesses in oil palm plantations under aegis of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) (which is holding its 3rd Conference Africa on palm oil in Accra, Ghana from August 20 to 22, 2019) as promoters of greenwashing...
