by oilwatch | Jun 25, 2020 | Africa, Press Release, Statement
Beyond Fossil Fuels The Oilwatch Africa conference held in Lamu focused on the theme: Beyond Fossil Fuels.. Oilwatch Africa network members, Lamu community representatives, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community-based organisations (CBOs)...
by oilwatch | Jun 17, 2020 | Africa, Press Release
A Call to Stop the Irresponsible Auctioning and Exploitation of the Resources of the Niger Delta and Reckless Destruction of the Environment and Ecosystem by the Federal Government. The Ijaw people of the Niger Delta have watched helplessly in the past 60years as they...
by oilwatch | Jun 15, 2020 | Africa, News, Publication
For Immediate Release: June 11, 2020 Contacts: Bronwen Tucker, bronwen [at] priceofoil.orgGlen Tyler-Davies, glen [at] 350.orgDaiyaan Halim, dhalim [at] cer.org.zaKate DeAngelis, kdeangelis [at] foe.org Report: South Africa Continues to Bankroll Billions in...
by oilwatch | Jun 6, 2020 | Africa, Press Release, Statement
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...
by oilwatch | Dec 8, 2019 | Africa, Global, Latin America, Press Release, South Asia, Statement
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...
by oilwatch | Aug 5, 2015 | Latin America
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,...
by oilwatch | May 17, 2015 | Latin America
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...
by oilwatch | Jul 9, 2014 | Africa, News
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...
by oilwatch | Jun 30, 2014 | Latin America, News
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...
by oilwatch | Jun 29, 2014 | Latin America, News
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...
