Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The killing of nine Indigenous leaders by police during an operation in the central Philippines on 30 Dec 2020, has drawn widespread condemnation from environmental and human rights groups, politicians, lawyers, and Catholic bishops.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-distance oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia, earning the condemnation of international human rights observers.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

From youth groups to indigenous people, civil society has been more riled than in previous years, as the disconnect grows between momentum on the streets and the slow progress of the negotiations. Tags: Friends of the Earth climate activism oil change international UN climate talks COP25

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2019

Koch Industries was under investigation for theft of oil from the Osage and other Indigenous nations. Tags: koch industries Charles Koch David Koch Jane Mayer Christopher Leonard

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 3, 2020

These groups target Muslims, Jews, women, LGBTQ+, Indigenous people and people of color. According to Toronto criminologist Scot Wortley, CBC data indicates that Indigenous people have a "police-related civilian-death" rate that is more than three times the national average. Canada is a bastions of the white supremacy movement.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. Neither answered questions about Indigenous consultation. billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project. Pathways estimates a $16.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

At the launch event for the new initiative today, COP27 President Sameh Shoukry said the Adaptation Agenda was a "critical step" for the "implementation COP", referring to the Egyptian presidency's tag line for the event.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The project started with the support of a technical advisory group (TAG) and fundraising by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). Phase One: A Statewide Collaboration.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

It explained that these include impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs), biodiversity, pollution, human rights, labour rights, and gender equality. It added that programs will be able to tag both existing and new carbon credits with the CCP label, provided that it has also approved the category.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To get a better understanding of the city’s legacy, DeSmog tagged along to an activist-led tour organised by Brussels based advocacy group, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and local activists at Glasgow Calls Out Polluters. We are taking the lead’.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. And the value of geothermal energy as a rock-solid, resilient, indigenous source of power is increasing as the penetration of intermittent renewables increase. As a society, we routinely burn fossil fuels at about 1000°C to heat our homes at about 22°C.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Similarly, Atlas set up shop in Brazil in the 1980s, working with various agribusiness groups to push back against the environmental regulations and Indigenous rights proposals being proposed by the Workers Party. Decades later, CEDICE was instrumental in ousting Hugo Chavez. Schäffler in Germany is only the most recent example.

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