Environmental Justice

Support TNI book project: Cashing in on Catastrophe

September 2013

Help crowdfund TNI's critical book that exposes how military planners and corporations are gearing up to profit from climate change and that puts forward ideas from popular movements for just solutions for sharing our food, water and energy in a climate-changed world.

The Sugarcane Industry and the global economic crisis

July 2013
Maria Luisa Mendonça, Fabio T. Pitta and Carlos Vinicius Xavier

An examination of ethanol production in Brazil, highlighting the role of financial capital, the territorial expansion of agribusiness and the impacts on labour relations and indigenous peoples and peasant farmers.

A foreseeable disaster

July 2013
Helena Paul

Why despite ten years of accumulating evidence on the social and environmental cost of agrofuels, does the European Commission persist with its failed policies? An analysis of the EU's bioeconomy vision, how it is fuelling land grabs in Africa, the agrofuels lobby that drives policy, and the alternative visions for energy that are being ignored.

Forget Backloading and Scrap the ETS!

July 2013

Organisations and people's movements are opposing the EU attempt to reform the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) as a measure that will merely further entrench fossil fuel use.

Europe cannot drill its way to a low-carbon economy, say climate justice groups

May 2013

The European Union (EU) and their national governments are set to discuss increased shale gas extraction in Europe which will increase environmental and social harm as well as dangerous climate change.

De mondiale wedloop om de allerlaatste grondstoffen

May 2013

De mondiale wedloop om de allerlaatste grondstoffen

Openbare lezing door Michael Klare, georganiseerd door het Transnational Institute

Zondag 9 Juni

19:00-21:00

De Brakke Grond (Tuinzaal)

Nes 45, Amsterdam

The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources

May 2013

The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources

Public lecture by Michael Klare organised by the Transnational Institute

June 9

19:00-21:00

De Brakke Grond (Tuinzaal)

Nes 45, Amsterdam

 

Protecting carbon to destroy forests

April 2013
TNI, FDCL, Carbon Trade Watch and IGO

This paper provides historical background and reports of experiences on the ground to show how land and nature enclosures are central to REDD+, and why it therefore cannot be fixed.

NGO report busts the myths of the Emissions Trading Scheme

April 2013

The European Parliament votes tomorrow (April 16) on the European Commission's proposal to backload 900 million emissions permits within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

 

Myth Busting: EU's Emissions Trading System

April 2013

Since the adoption of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), emissions have risen and the price of consumer energy went up along with the profits of many industrial actors.