A Resolution from the World Wilderness Congress, released on 16th December, affirms that World Heritage Sites, Protected Areas, Community Conserved Areas, Indigenous Territories and Sacred Natural Sites, must be respected as “No Go Areas” and protected...
Critical articles on the issues of ‘voluntary’ mechanisms on human rights were released to coincide with the recent UN Forum on Business & Human Rights and the WTO meeting in Bali happening at the same time. See...
Civil society groups across the Pacific criticise SOPAC and its development of a regional regulatory framework on deep sea mining (DSM). They argue that it facilitates and pre-empts DSM before Pacific Island communities have had the opportunity to debate whether this...
New coal power stations are planned to be built around Europe, but there is also growing resistance in many countries including Germany, Poland and Czech Republic. See http://www.airclim.org/acidnews/anti-coal-movement-europe-growing.
UBS analysts in 2013 reported that utilities in Europe need to shut down 30% of their gas, coal, and oil-fed power capacity by 2017 — not necessarily to fight global warming, cut pollution, or cut fuel imports, but because the renewable energy revolution is pushing...
Environmentalists have welcomed the ruling by the Court of Session in Scotland last month, overturning an earlier decision to allow liquidators for Scottish Coal to abandon their environmental obligations at former opencast mines. The ruling says the liquidators do...
