Environmental Justice

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.

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.

Governing the Global Land Grab

June 2013
Chunyu Wang

The rise of flex crops—crops with multiple uses across food, feed, fuel and industrial complexes—has far-reaching implications for global land governance.

Call to reject G8’s proposed transparency initiative for land transactions

May 2013

TNI and other civil society organisations say that G8 has no legitimacy to make decisions about food, land and nutrition. Increased transparency will not stop land grabbing.

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.

Sons and Daughters of the Earth

April 2013
Food First & TNI, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.

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.

Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly

April 2013

As the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Tunisia, 2013, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of peoples of Maghreb-Mashrek (from North Africa to the Middle East), in the construction of human civilization.

Climate Space

March 2013

Time the EU scraps its failed carbon Emissions Trading System

February 2013

TNI has joined over 90 organisations and movements in calling on the EU to scrap its failed Emissions Trading System (ETS) and implement urgent effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emisions.