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Discrediting carbon credits

Big Oil going carbon neutral? Here is how carbon offsets impact local and indigenous communities. Authors: Nathaniel Rugh and Marcel Llavero-Pasquina Full article published at: https://theecologist.org/2023/aug/18/discrediting-carbon-credits Fossil fuel companies are increasingly using carbon …

big oil, carbon, carbon neutral, environmental justice, fossil fuels, indigenous communities, net zero

Free Antonio Tolentino. What the Philippines’ biggest land investor doesn’t want you to know

By Dalena Tran Full article published by The Ecologist. Barangay captain and environmental defender Antonio Tolentino has been detained on trumped-up criminal and administrative charges for protecting farmers’ rights against Ayalaland’s land-grabbing for eight …

Antonio Tolentino, community resistance, farmer's rights, Hacienda Dolores, indigenous communities, land conflict, land grabbing, philippines

Extractivist growth and alternatives from below: Why we can’t mine our way out of the climate crisis.

The recorded event session is available now here. On Sunday 7 November 2021 we were part of this event that the Yes to Life, No to Mining Network and allies brought …

climate crisis, climate justice, COP26, Extractivism, frontline communities, indigenous communities, mining, mining conflict

Webinar: The hidden side of conservation: voices from the ground.

Wildlife and forest conservation policies violate the basic rights of local and indigenous communities that inhabit protected areas, in addition to displacing them and criminalizing their struggles in the name …

conservation, cultural identity, Guatemala, India, indigenous communities, indigenous territorial rights, Kenya, land rights, Nature Conservation, wildlife

Indigenous Indian people face forest eviction

By Nick Meynen and Eleonora Fanari. There’s a global outcry as India’s Supreme Court evicts over a million vulnerable people from forest under the guise of protecting wildlife.The Bengal tiger has …

forest rights, India, indigenous communities

Corridors of Resistance: Stopping oil and gas pipelines

The Unist’ot’en camp in North-Western British Colombia, Canada, is front and centre in a global battle for climate and energy justice.Since 2011 they have been maintaining a check-point controlling access …

Canada, community resistance, indigenous communities, oil and gas and climate justice, Pipelines, tar sands

Sengwers Feeling the Heat in The Embobut Forest

By Dean Puckett. When Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, visited Kenya earlier this month, he reportedly urged the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to sort out Kenya’s historical land …

Avoided Deforestation, forest rights, indigenous communities, Kenya, land rights, redd, World Bank

The Baram Dam Blockade

By Christian Nolle. Deep in the heartland of Sarawak in Borneo close to Brunei runs the river Baram. The Sarawak government wants to erect a Dam on it, as part of the …

borneo, community resistance, dam, indigenous communities, malaysia

Barrick in the doldrums: shareholders angry about Pascua Lama

By Joan Martinez Alier. For many years, Barrick Gold has been heavily investing in the ill-fated project of Pascua-Lama in Chile, despite the local opposition. Communities resist the destruction of glaciers …

Argentina, Barrick gold, Chile, gold mining, indigenous communities, mining, water

Indigenous populations disproportionately hit in environmental conflicts

By Joan Martinez Alier. In the EJOLT Atlas, www.ejatlas.org, which is such a success, we can trace whether indigenous populations are involved or not in the one thousand conflicts we have …

Bullard, Colombia, environmental justice, indigenous communities