The Environmental Justice Project is part of the Economic Justice, Corporate Power and Alternatives Programme. TNI's emerging work on the corporate expansion into air, water and nature as a whole builds on work dating back to the early 1990s on the privatisation of nature, more recent work on critiquing carbon trading, and current work on land and water grabbing. It also links closely to TNI’s new programme on corporate power and accountability. Read more about the project.
Articles
Korbach Resolution to Stop Fracking
TNI is one of the many supporters of the Korbach Resolution, initiated by German anti-fracking-initiatives.
The relationship between Latin American and European social movements
The challenge of social movements to continue working in an articulated way are two of the main issues addressed in this interview with Lucia Ortiz
Publications
Protecting carbon to destroy forests
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.
Myth Busting: EU's Emissions Trading System
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.
Accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder
The EU aspires to global leadership in developing ‘sustainable biofuels’, arguing they can substitute for fossil fuels, but the result has been dispossession of rural communities throughout the South.
Events
June 2013
The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
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
June 2013
De mondiale wedloop om de allerlaatste grondstoffen
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
June 2013
Multinational Crimes: The Shell Case
As one of Africa's leading advocates and campaigners for environmental and human rights, Nnimmo Bassey stood up and challenged corporate impunity by Shell and other oil companies in his native Nigeria.
News
Les luttes après le tsunami et la nouvelle génération militante
15 September 2013
La catastrophe suscite des mouvements de protestation atteignant un niveau que le Japon n’a pas connu depuis des décennies. Le séisme a mis en évidence les problèmes sociaux profonds, tels que les insuffisances de la sécurité sociale et du droit au logement. Cette lutte bénéficie de peu d’intérêt médiatique et mérite d’être mieux connue.
Europe cannot drill its way to a low-carbon economy, say climate justice groups
21 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.
Mirjam van Reisen benoemd tot nieuw bestuurslid Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV)
3 May 2013
Net voor haar abdicatie heeft Koningin Beatrix Prof. Dr. Mirjam van Reisen beëdigd als bestuurslid Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV) en daarbinnen voorzitter Commissie Ontwikkelingssamenwerking; het instituut dat de regering en de Staten-Generaal adviseert over het buitenlandse beleid.
