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Crude Justice & Ecocide in the Niger Delta
By Leah Temper. Oil permeates our existence. From water bottles, plastics, fuels and paints to fertilizers, fabrics and solvents. Yet despite its ubiquity, the reality…
The CDM in Africa Cannot Deliver the Money
As EU carbon emissions permits drop to a record low price of under 6 euros a ton with no hope of recovery, many wonder why…
NEW EJOLT VIDEO: Sarayaku v. Ecuador
Arturo Hortas has made a new documentary for EJOLT. The documentary is on the case Sarayaku v. Ecuador. As we reported earlier, the Inter-American Court…
EJOLT presents documentary to support the struggle of waste pickers
A battle is brewing in Delhi, India over access and control to garbage. For decades, informal wastepickers and recyclers have turned garbage into cash. They cost…
General News
Verdict Expected in Court Case on Oil Giant Shell’s Nigerian Oil Pollution
EJOLT partner Nnimmo Bassey from ERA has send us a press release from Friends of the Earth Netherlands in relation to the decades of oil…
Talisman Energy Withdraws from Peruvian Amazon – Achuar people celebrate a major victory for indigenous rights
We like to share with you a press release from Amazon Watch with yet again some good news for environmental justice. To understand this latest…
Victory in Lawsuit Appealon Rawa Tripa : A Jurisprudence for Environmental Law Enforcement in Indonesia
We received some good news from Indonesia, in relation to the industrial tree plantations report and briefing we recently published. The press release below raises…
Data leak reveals Shell’s deep financial links to human rights abusers in Nigeria.
While EJOLT partner ERA is busy reporting dozens of environmental injustices in the Niger Delta for our database of conflicts, PlatformLondon just released a shocking…
BP summoned to answer for assault on Mother Earth for Gulf of Mexico spill
by Oilwatch The defence of the rights of the sea as an integral part of Mother Earth is being pursued in Ecuador using the Rights…
Nature Kenya Campaign Saves Dakatcha Woodlands and Puts Jatropha in the dock
By Leah Temper A campaign by EJOLT Partner Nature Kenya and other EJOs has saved the Dakatcha Woodland Important Bird Area (IBA) from destruction from…
Exploitation of tar sands: a failure on the path to an energy and ecological transition
By Pierre Johnson (REEDS) Despite an activist victory to avoid the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline over a sensitive area, oil from Alberta State…
A call to action for Environmental and Climate justice
“After the success achieved with convincing Italians to vote against water privatization, Italian civil society is now calling to action for a broader set of…
Unpacking the hot air industry
The first priority for developing countries when it comes to climate change mitigation should be reducing poverty, but the market-based approach of carbon trading is…
Opinion
BOOK review: Geo-engineering conflicts
By Joan Martinez-Alier. Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering, Yale University Press, 2013, 288pp Many ecological economists know at least…
Choosing between coal or wetlands in Chrissiesmeer
By Franz Fuls. As a developing country, the South African government has identified coal as a primary energy source. It grants permission to extract minerals…
Africa and climate change: adapting to indifference
By Khadija Sharife. EJOLT collaborator and investigative journalist Khadija Sharife just published on climate adaptation for Africa in The Africa Report. Here are some excerpts:…
The sinking shipping industry: dream or nightmare?
By Nick Meynen. Warren Buffet is bearish on the shipping industry. The Economist blames all sorts of green regulations for their troubled waters. But while the…
There is no environmental justice
By Leah Temper. The recent Kiobel verdict in the Supreme Court in favour of Shell that will limit the ability to try corporations for human and…
Complete and utter chaos at Chrissiesmeer, South Africa.
By Franz Fuls. During a chaotic public meeting Xstrata’s successor, Msobo Coal, announces its plans to mine inside the Chrissiesmeer Biodiversity Area, Mpumalanga, South Africa….
BRICS meet for the scramble of Africa (the sequel)
By Nick Meynen. When in 2001 the term BRIC was coined to group emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India and China – nobody saw them as…
EJOLT transmits a message from deep down the Niger delta
By Joan Martinez-Alier In the EJOLT trip to the Niger Delta in March 2013, we have visited the communities of Goi and Bodo (in Ogoni…
Late lessons from early warnings: hard facts, soft conclusions
By Nick Meynen. In 2001, the European Environment Agency (EEA) launched a groundbreaking report: ‘Late lessons from early warnings. The Precautionary Principle 1896-2000’. It spanned…
TES6 and its co(a)llateral damage in Slovenia and the EU
By Lidija Zivcic The economics make no sense, the legality is questionable and it’s an environmental nightmare. Meet one of Europe’s biggest aspiring polluters: the…
