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Oilwatch Nigeria World Environment Day Statement – Nature’s Message to Us
As we celebrate the World Environmental Day (WED) today, 5th June 2020, a day set aside by UN annually to encourage worldwide awareness and action for the protection of the environment with the theme, 'Time for Nature (Biodiversity),' with a focus on its role in...
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...
Regarding the “new and multi-million dollar” ITT reserves.
YASunidos to the country. Apparently the "most important things in life," like the politic, the economy, the macro-economy... are only valid in so far as they present facts, numbers, and statistics. The more and larger these figures are, the better is, as we've seen...
Brazilian pre-salt expansion: corruption and the petroleum industry
Marcelo Calazans, Tamra Gilbertson and Daniela Meirelles* In 2005, the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras discovered hydrocarbons below the geological salt layer in the Tupi field located in the Atlantic Ocean off-shore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2006 a consortium of...
South Africa’s ‘cancer alley’ residents face new threat from port development
MDG : 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize : outh Durban Community Environmental Alliance Desmond D'Sa South Durban environmental alliance co-founder, Desmond D'Sa, recipient of the 2014 Goldman prize. Photograph: Jenny Bates for the Guardian The smells drifting into the...
Kukamas abandon hunger strike over Peruvian Amazon oil pollution
The Guardian the Kukama Kukamiria's march to the city of Iquitos. They are protesting the toxic waste land left behind by over 40 years of oil contamination in their territories; and demand respect for their most basic human rights: access to clean water, safe food,...
Peru now has a ‘licence to kill’ environmental protesters
The Guardian Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – the vast majority of them indigenous – are on trial following protests and fatal conflict in the Amazon over five years ago missed a crucial point. Yes, the hearings are...
Ecuador signs permits for oil drilling in Amazon’s Yasuni national park
Drilling for oil in a part of the Amazon rainforest considered one of the most biodiverse hotspots on the planet is to go ahead less than a year after Ecuador's president lifted a moratorium on oil drilling there. Last August, Rafeal Correa scrapped a pioneering...
Why Ecuador’s president is misleading the world on Yasuni-ITT
The Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini region of Yasuni contains more species in a hectare than all the wildlife in North America. Photograph: Alamy The decision by Ecuador's president Rafael Correa to abandon a plan to permanently forgo exploiting hundreds of millions of...
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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