Oilwatch in South Asia
Oilwatch affiliate activities and news from the South Asian region
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The Sky’s Limit Africa
The Case for a Just Energy Transition from Fossil Fuel Production in Africa Transitioning in a fair way requires local decision making and consultation to allow communities to determine how energy transition should look in their regions. However, some board principles...
Grants for Environmental and Climate Justice Action 2024
Oilwatch is pleased to announce a call for proposals for small grants of USD $5,000 to support grassroots groups and movements working on projects aligned with its principles and focused on addressing the issues of fossil fuels impacts, Building...
Fuelling Conflict: Investment exacerbating turmoil in western Burma
This briefer provides an update of foreign investments in Arakan State, armed conflict, the struggle by local communities to defend their lands and rights, and proposed federal solutions for resource management by leading political stakeholders – which are key to...
It is time to create ANNEX 0
Proposal for COP21, Paris, December 2015 The Annex 0 proposal was made to COP21 in Paris, in December 2015 and further released at COP25, Madrid, December 2019. The purpose of this document is to present the commitments and efforts of the peoples, nationalities, and...
The war against environmentalism
Ejolt By Joan Martinez Alier. The Hindutva nationalist right-wing prime minister Modi in India is rallying against Environmental Justice Organisations (EJOs) financed by foreign money. High on his list are EJOs from Scandinavian countries or Germany, which are...
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We have recently changed the way we send out our information, including our monthly electronic Bulletin. This means that e-mail subscribers need to re-register via our WRM web site, and because of this, many people who used to receive the WRM Bulletin no longer do so....
Beijing, Banks and Barrels: China and Oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Amazon Watch China's economy and its global influence are growing at a rapid rate. Nowhere is that growing influence clearer than in Ecuador, a country that Beijing has lent nearly $9 billion and has promised $7 billion more in financing. Those loans and promises add...
Yasunizing the World (2)
Triplecrisis.com Joan Martinez Alier, Guest Blogger In May 2013, the international press has become alive to the fact thatthere is a lot of unburnable fossil fuels. "Unburnable" carbon hasbecome a buzz word in The Economist and in The New York Times. If theoil, gas...
The Last Time Atmospheric CO2 was at 400 parts per million Humans Didn’t Exist
ScienceBlogs Posted by Peter Gleick on May 10, 2013 The planet has passed a disturbing landmark, a marker on a continuing highway to climate disruption. On May 9th, the NOAA and the Mauna Loa observatory reported that atmospheric CO2 levels touched 400 parts per...
Yasunizing the world?
THE AFRICA REPORT When Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, published the first articles on climate change in 1896, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was 300 parts per million (ppm). It is now reaching 400 ppm and rising 2 ppm per...
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