Who Will Control the Green Economy? New report on Corporate Concentration in...
www.etcgroup.org From the UN Rio+20 preparatory meetings in New York, ETC Group today launches Who Will Control the Green Economy? The 60-page report connects the dots between the climate and oil...
View ArticleNew Report: Opening Pandora’s Box: a New Wave of Land Grabbing by the...
From our allies at the Gaia Foundation in the UK: . Our work in recent years on agriculture, climate change and land grabbing has brought us face-to-face with yet another challenge, one that we felt...
View ArticleReport: Fracking Could Cause a New Global Water Crisis
Cross-Posted from CommonDreams March 7, 2012 “Does the rest of the world want to live this nightmare?” - Common Dreams staff As the oil and gas industry heads more towards hydraulic fracturing, also...
View ArticleNew report to expose how corporations ‘capture’ the U.N.
From Friends of the Earth International June 19, 2012, Rio de Janeiro – On June 19, 2012, on the eve of a key United Nations Summit due to take place June 20-22 in Rio De Janeiro [1], Friends of the...
View ArticleAt the crossroads between green economy and rights of nature
by Pablo Solón, from the report “Rights of Nature: Planting the Seeds of Real Change” published by Global Exchange (June, 2012) Almost one thousand dolphins are lying dead on the beach. Another five...
View ArticleNew Report Released– Sustainable Biomass: A Modern Myth
Note: A new report from our allies at Biofuelwatch –The GJEP Team Sustainable Biomass: A Modern Myth -A review of standards, criteria and schemes certifying industrial biomass as ‘sustainable’, with...
View ArticleLand acquired over past decade could have produced food for a billion people
By John Vidal, 4 October 212. Source: The Guardian Oxfam calls on World Bank to stop backing foreign investors who acquire land for biofuels that could produce food Last year, customary landowners...
View ArticleG8′s biofuel use contributing to world hunger: new report
29 April 2013. Source: Action Aid International Amount of food crops burnt by richest nations as biofuels could feed half the world’s hungriest people, ActionAid says Half the world’s hungry – 441...
View ArticleFracking chemicals disrupt hormone function
December 16, 2013. Source: The Endocrine Society A controversial oil and natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses many chemicals that can disrupt the body’s...
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