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EJOLT is a large collaborative project bringing science and society together to catalogue ecological distribution conflicts and work towards confronting environmental injustice.

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Consumption, Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Ecological Debt

Consumer blindness is leading to a range of injustices hidden from the eye of the public. EJOLT will also provide policy recommendations on European policy that impacts consumption behaviour.

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Liabilities and Valuation

EJOs involved in EJOLT will receive support in their quest for economic valuation of environmental liabilities. This will reinforce their attempts to obtain redress through court cases.

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Environmental Health and Risk Assessment

EJOLT supports community monitoring of environmental health impacts and exposure to risks.

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Biomass and Land conflicts

Who owns what land and what does owning or leasing land actually mean? In our globalised economy with increasing speculation over land and food commodities, these have become life-or-death questions to millions of people in the South.

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Oil and Gas and Carbon Justice

Oil and gas extraction are moving deeper and deeper into the oceans and forests, expanding the commodity frontiers, and incurring both higher costs and risks.

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Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy production has to be seen from a life-cycle perspective. EJOLT looks at the different aspects of the cycle, from uranium extraction to the disposal of toxic waste.

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Mining and Ship Breaking

Production and consumption needs to be seen from a life-cycle perspective. EJOLT looks at the different aspects of extraction and waste through clear-cut case studies.

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Law and Institutions

The BP oil spill, Chernobyl and the scandal of hazardous waste dumped by Trafigura in Africa are some examples that show the need for International juridical contexts for addressing environmental crimes.

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Maps

EJOLT is currently mapping environmental injustice and environmental conflict all over the world. Check back for new maps being launched in the near future.

What are Environmental Justice Organisations?

EJOs are civil society groups involved in conflicts over resource extraction or waste disposal, which increase as the world economy uses more materials and energy. Costs of economic growth and development are dispro- portionately borne by the most socially and economically vulnerable sections of society, who often lack the political power to resist displacement, dispossession or exposure to environmental health risks. By giving these people a voice, EJOs practice what can be called "environmentalism of the poor". Click here to learn more on the 23 universities and EJOs involved in this project.

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GRAIN wins the alternative Nobel Prize

GRAIN, a partner in EJOLT, has been awarded the Right Livelihood Award, better known as the alternative Nobel Prize! GRAIN is an international non-profit organisation, a research and activist group that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. GRAIN is the second EJOLT partner to receive this prestigious award. Read more

EJOLT News

Thyssen-Krup Steel Company tries to silence EJOLT partner with a slapp suit

January 9th, 2012

Researchers from EJOLT partner Fiocruz are being sued for evaluating impacts caused by ThyssenKrupp Atlantic Steel Company in Santa Cruz, Brazil. Please sign this declaration of support,…

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COLOMBIA : Communities struggling to stop El Quimbo dam in the Magdalena River

February 20th, 2012

Since January 2012, the Upper Magdalena River is the scene of some bold civilian struggle for environmental justice. Communities affected by the proposed El Quimbo Dam project paralyzed dam construction by blocking a bridge and road...

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The greenwashing king of asbestos and the end of impunity

February 17th, 2012

On February 13, an Italian court sentenced Swiss businessman Stephan Schmidheiny and Belgian Baron Jean-Louis Marie Ghislain de Cartier to 16 years imprisonment. They were found guilty for negligent behavior in exposing Eternit's workers...

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