After weeks of renewed negotiation between Cerrejon Coal and eight farming families of African descent at the village of Old Roche in the province of La Guajira, Colombia, an agreement has been reached allowing the families to relocate to a new site next year....
Why this is important Social movements, environmentalists, and independent researchers denounce the violation of human rights as well as social, cultural and environmental irreversible impacts caused by the multinational mining company Anglo Ferrous Minas-Rio (a...
19 October 2013 Earlier this month, Brazilian environmentalists received some good news about ENRC´s Porto Sul project in a protected Atlantic forest in Ilhéus, Bahia state. One piece of news is official: after a conduct adjustment term (TAC) signed between the Bahia...
On the eve of Dirty Energy Month, activists from LMN member group WDM descended upon a branch of HSBC bank in the heart of the Square Mile. They cordoned off an area outside the bank with climate criminal hazard tape and informed curious passers-by of the bank’s...
First, the World Development Movement backs local opposition by calling on UK banks to cease financing the destruction. Second, an alliance of Central Kalimantan organisations demands the cancellation of plans for a rail network in Central Kalimantan to support an...
A campaign to persuade investors to take their money out of the fossil fuel sector is growing faster than any previous divestment campaign and could cause significant damage to coal, oil and gas companies, according to a study from the University of Oxford. See...
