By Eva Hershaw In March of last year, California-based oil giant Chevron hailed a sweeping victory in a two-decade long legal battle in the Ecuadorean Amazon. A New York federal judge, Lewis Kaplan, ruled that a $9.5 billion Lago…
A leaked European Union document has revealed that the EU is willing to trade away essential environmental safeguards during the ongoing EU-US trade talks. The leaked document, which provides an overview of the EU’s opening position on…
As Miami talks wind up, environmental safeguards are ‘virtually non-existent’ in trade deal negotiating text for sustainable development, lawyers say The EU appears to have broken a promise to reinforce environmental protections in a leaked draft negotiating…
What do the UN climate talks in Paris this December, €œCOP21€ , and the ongoing EU-US trade negotiations, TTIP, have in common? Both look set to create deals that work for big business and dirty industry,…
Published in Kompas, 15 October 2015 The twelve States in the Pacific Rim have just concluded the negotiations of the Treaty on Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The Treaty itself will serve as a legal framework for free trade cooperation and…
A new briefing by AITEC and CEO explains why TTIP, and especially regulatory cooperation, could put a stranglehold on our ability to create the energy transition required to tackle climate change. The new briefing gives examples…
Descargar: MP3 (2.9 MB) Before the landslides that caused at least 160 deaths, with still missing, in Guatemala city, the country’s social organizations had to mourn the murder of another community and territory defender: Rigoberto Lima Choc, a young environmental…
Sign the petition: Demand justice for Rigoberto Lima Choc! Last week, environmental activist Rigoberto Lima Choc was murdered in Northern Guatemala. This happened just after a court upheld charges he filed denouncing massive pollution caused by a palm…
PRESS RELEASE Under the makeup: Hydro creating unfeasible societies in the Brazilian Amazon Contamination, colossal use of water, violation of indigenous rights and heavy climate footprint in Hydro’s bauxite and alumina production in Pará…
LAGOS, NIGERIA, September 14, 2015 — Friends of the Earth Nigeria / Environmental Rights Action (ERA/FoEN) has demanded a Nigerian Federal Government probe into of explosions caused by Nigerian Agip Oil Company [NAOC] operations in several communities in Bayelsa State…
SAVE THE DATE! PINOCCHIO CLIMATE AWARDS 2015 Paris, December 3rd 2015 Which corporations are lobbying the hardest to undermine climate policies? Which corporations are doing their best to greenwash their image? Which corporations have the least regard for local…
Quito, September 4th, 2015. After eight months of waiting, the Supreme Court of Canada ratified the second instance ruling of the Ontario Court of Appeal, which recognises that the Canadian court does have the jurisdiction to allow the…