Big Polluters will present a play during COP 26 with the objective of receiving carte blanche to continue polluting as usual. In the play, they will present two fictitious technological “solutions” to suggest they can continue to pollute and somehow capture carbon from the atmosphere via risky and unproven schemes. One of these is a …
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On August 2014, a tailings spill from the world’s third largest copper producer, Buenavista del Cobre (Grupo México), spilled 40 million liters of a toxic solution containing copper sulfate, lead and arsenic into the Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers. The tailings spread along the river for more than 250 km and affected more than 22,000 people …
The World Meteorological Organization has produced a scientific assessment report on how climate change is already impacting Latin America. TEMPERATURE INCREASELast year was the hottest year in the Caribbean and the second hottest year in all of South America. LESS RAIN AND HEAT WAVESRainfall has already decreased throughout the region, from Mexico to the Pantanal, …
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A year and a half ago, on the night of April 7, 2020, three oil pipelines spilled nearly 57,000 liters of oil into the Napo and Coca rivers. This was the second largest oil spill in the history of Ecuador. By dawn, the rivers were dead. The impact was tremendous: 35,000 people were directly affected, …
Fisherfolk and farmers in Gujarat, India, have sued the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for financing a coal plant that has caused serious damage to the local environment, including the marine ecosystem. More than 870,000 families whose livelihoods are tied to these fisheries were harmed by the installation and operation of the plant, which destroyed an …
By sending large delegations to international climate meetings, polluting industries have managed to delay the implementation of real solutions and prevent the integration of urgent climate change measures into policies, strategies and planning in the countries where they operate. This business strategy is called “corporate capture” and undermines political will, preventing a just global response. …
Considering that we are part of the Earth, the law – made by humans – needs to recognize that the Earth also has rights, as do people. Many constitutions still follow an anthropocentric paradigm, treating everything that is not human as an object. These changes in the law are necessary, to recognize nature as a …
Nicotine is addictive. Smoking is bad for your health. And the tobacco industry has always known it. In the 1990s, leaked internal documents revealed that the industry knew the damage it was causing, leading to a groundswell of popular outrage in the United States. Many state attorneys general sued the industry. Under pressure, an agreement …
For 30 years, Chevron-Texaco consciously and deliberately destroyed the Ecuadorian rainforest in the provinces of Sucumbíos and Orellana, the region with the highest biodiversity on the planet, to explore for oil. During this period, documents show that Chevron dumped more than 650,000 barrels of crude oil and another 16 billion tailings into rivers and soil. …
Just 100 fossil fuel companies are responsible for 70% of the world’s historic greenhouse gas emissions,* and the 20 largest oil and gas companies are responsible for a third of all those emissions alone! Oil companies are also associated with a host of other irreversible ecological damages, abuses, and crimes such as water contamination from …
