The energy transition is in the news. Interest in energy transition ranges from actors such as peoples in resistance, workers, academics, and public administrations, to large corporations, international institutions and governments. The paradigm of energy transition, if it exists, runs a serious risk of being coopted by large companies, of being trivialized and placed at the service of the current system of social reproduction that seeks to perpetuate existing power relations.

Pas moins de 106 demandes d’arbitrage afférentes à des traités d’investissement concernaient des États d’Afrique. Cela représente 11 % de tous les différends connus entre investisseurs et États dans le monde.

By the end of August 2019, African States had been hit by a total of 106 known investment treaty arbitration claims.  This represents 11% of all known investor-state disputes worldwide. Between 2013 and 2018, there has been an unprecedented boom of claims against African governments. During these last six years, they received more investor claims than the previous 20 years combined. This paper exposes how the international investment regime affects African countries.

Nuestro vínculo con el océano ha cambiado mucho a lo largo de los siglos. Para quienes se dedican a la pesca es su base vital y para el comercio el océano se considera simplemente una superficie para transportar bienes. A principios del siglo XX se dio paso a otra época centrada en la extracción de recursos oceánicos del fondo marino y hoy se habla de la ‘economía azul’, que promete una victoria en los frentes ecológico, social y económico.

Our relationship to the ocean has changed greatly over the centuries. For those who fish, it is their livelihood, while for trade the ocean is considered simply a surface across which goods can be shipped. At the beginning of the 20th century another era began, centred on the extraction of ocean resources from the seabed, and today there is talk of the “blue economy”, which promises a triple win on the ecological, social and economic fronts.

Across the world, peasants, pastoralists, fishers, and indigenous peoples are losing their once effective control over the land, water, wetlands, pastures, fishing grounds and forests on which they depend including the right to decide how these natural resources will be used, when and by whom, at what scale and for what purposes, often for generations to come.

¿Estás generando un cambio positivo en tu comunidad o conoces a alguien que lo esté haciendo? Participar en la convocatoria. Nos encantaría que te presentaras y que compartas esta convocatoria con toda aquella persona a quien creas que le pueda interesar.

Are you transforming your community for the better or know someone who is? Please apply here for the Transformative Initiative 2019.

After a spout of optimism surrounding Myanmar’s so-called democratic transition in the post-2010 period, more recent work by CSOs and academics have emphasized the rampant and violent processes of land and ocean grabbing that this transition is facilitating. Drawing on a case from Northern Tanintharyi in the Southeast of the country, this article attempts to historicize contemporary accounts of these grabbing processes.

Una sencilla pero exhaustiva guía básica de por qué el TNI considera que los derechos humanos deben ser la base de cualquier debate sobre el control de drogas.

TNI mourns the terrible news that our beautiful, bubbly, funny, quirky, creative, smart and perceptive 'web gardener' Tessa Kersten-Zenger passed away on Saturday, February 17, 2018. She had turned just 43 years old the week before and was celebrating with a family weekend away when she died suddenly following an accident.

Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres talks about how her mother's example and a belief that ancestors continue to accompany our struggles helps her and the indigenous movement in Honduras to continue to mobilise against injustice, state violence and corporate abuses.

Medha Patkar of the National Peoples' Alliance shares her thoughts on how to build powerful movements based on three decades of campaigning in India against mega-dams and other forms of unsustainable and exploitative development.

Nonhle Mbuthuma talks about the resilience of her people in Pondoland, fighting for their land and livelihoods against corporate mining interests.

El Transnational Institute (TNI), un centro internacionalista de investigación e incidencia política sin ánimo de lucro con sede en Ámsterdam, presenta en 2017 la Iniciativa Ciudades Transformadoras. La iniciativa se inspira en la emergente ola de prácticas políticas transformadoras que tienen lugar a nivel municipal en todo el mundo, lanzando un proceso único que busca reconocer experiencias relevantes lanzando un proceso participativo de concesión de premios, con el objetivo último de que estos ayuden a divulgar las lecciones de estas ciudades y lo que las impulsa.

Ciudades Transformadoras es una oportunidad para que gobiernos locales progresistas, coaliciones municipalistas, movimientos sociales y organizaciones de la sociedad civil difundan y compartan sus experiencias para abordar y encontrar soluciones a la crisis sistémica, económica, social, política y ecológica de nuestro planeta.

Transnational Institute (TNI) is launching the Transformative Cities Initiative in 2017. The initiative draws on the emerging wave of transformative political practices taking place at municipal level worldwide, by launching a unique award process that will ensure that the lessons and inspiration of these cities becomes viral.

Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of tackling and finding solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crisis.