As a new oil-fever gathers pace in Arctic countries such as Greenland the lesson from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees reports
… How oil and corruption have become so closely linked … October 2011 News Oil Arctic Natural World Corruption Politics And Economics Transparency … from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees …
Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.
… say campaigners, who point to endemic corruption in many developing world … also increasingly being linked to conflict, corruption, civil strife and human rights …
Criminal gangs are increasingly smuggling Russian timber into China for manufacture into baby cribs, picture frames and toilet seats sold in the west. Those trying to thwart them face violence and corruption. Sebastian Strangio reports from Vladivostok
… Those trying to thwart them face violence and corruption. Sebastian Strangio reports from … Chinese demand and a culture of official corruption and fear – a trade that also … Forest, a recent TV exposé of the official corruption at the heart of the trade. Most …
After years of protest, plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze are awaiting the go-ahead from the Turkish government. But protest group YEGEP are not giving up without a fight
… Coal and Corruption: The Battle for Gerze Chris Walker …
Investigation into the dangers faced by lawyers who champion human rights and environmental justice.
… and left-wing rebels, as well as widespread corruption, rampant environmental … that exposed how government complicity and corruption was enabling illegal logging, … enforced. The country suffers from chronic corruption and poor administration, meaning …
The Export Credit Guarantee Department is accused of underwriting unethical and carbon-intensive business deals in developing countries and operating with a lack of transparency - charges it denies.
… agreements on environmental impact, corruption and human rights. These criticisms … the full picture.' Tackling bribery and corruption A major cause for concern for … requirements on how businesses proved no corruption or bribery took place and unlike …
Timber, diamonds, gold and oil have long been recognised as drivers of war. But companies involved in trading commodities from conflict zones are seldom prosecuted. Isn't it time they were held to account? Matilda Lee reports
… 17 years to expose armed conflict resource corruption, says that to date, efforts to hold … Geneva Convention. Ken Hurwitz, senior anti-corruption legal officer at the Open Society's …
Logging, mining and agriculture are opening up Guinea-Bissau's once intact forests to the ravages of the bush-meat trade, an Ecologist investigation finds
Bush-meat demand fuelling secretive trade in Guinea-Bissau's primates Dearbhla Crosse | 29th September 2010 News Bush-meat Primates Logging Deforestation Politics And Economics img_5473.jpg Logging, …
Carbon trading cannot work. How do we know this? Because economic theory tells us so
… been beset by inefficiency and, in places, corruption'. Economics argues for its … of political manipulation that results in corruption. Carbon markets The justification …
Undercover filming by the Environmental Investigation Agency has unearthed shocking evidence of military involvement in the illegal timber trade, all to feed western demand for stylish wood products, according to Faith Doherty
… in Laos, steadily uncovering a trail of corruption and inadequate enforcement which … Those trying to thwart them face violence and corruption. Sebastian Strangio reports from …
As the world’s poorest countries sink further and further into debt, Western corporations grow fat from government-backed projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks.
… Dam Project. Besides being riddled with corruption, the Highlands Dam Project … they can cover the related ’commissions’. The corruption-fighting NGO Transparency … It has been characterised by large-scale corruption and massive construction flaws and …
The trial of the ex-Liberian President - accused of purchasing arms with funds from the illegal timber and diamond trade - could lead to a wave of prosecutions using the 'pillage' theory
… be significant.' Ken Hurwitz, senior anti-corruption legal officer at the Open Society's …
By using taxpayers' money to back environmentally-destructive projects around the world, ECAs are lining the pockets of multinational companies at the expense of the planet. Export credit agencies, explains Simon Retallack, are the worlds largest public financiers of environmental destruction.
… projects associated with large-scale corruption and mismanagement, according to the … reported, in December 1998, were riddled with corruption. The cumulative support for coal, …
The launch of the massive economic ecosystem assessment, TEEB, will help force the natural world onto the corporate balance sheet. It's a step forward. But how will protesters react to the ground shifting under their feet?
… solved.' REDD forestry schemes are beset by corruption READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS …
Wealthy countries and agribusiness want farmland, poorer countries need capital – but what happens to the locals? By Martin Large and Neil Ravenscroft
A global land-grab Martin Large Neil Ravenscroft | 16th March 2009 Comment Land People Locals Agribusiness Farmland Poor International Development Politics And Economics A-global-landgrab_MAIN.jpg …
…and it’s time to tape up the White House gate and hang the sign saying ‘crime scene… property to be confiscated… vacate premises immediately’.
Enron bought Bush the White House Greg Palast | 1st September 2004 Comment Government Enron Inaugural Ball White House R US Politics And Economics Archive_70.jpg …and it’s time to tape up the White …
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint by Friends of the Earth against Shell over the oil company's claims that it uses its waste CO2 to grow flowers.
… 7th November 2007 News Shell Oil Business Corruption Corporate CO2 Friends Of The Earth …
Isabel Hilton, writer, broadcaster and editor of Open Democracy magazine, tells the Ecologist what the results of the mid-term elections mean for America and the world…
… have been damaging: voters put sleaze and corruption at the top of their concerns, above …
21st century nuclear power needs a 21st century subsidy... no blank cheques this time - just an apparently green tweak to the emissions trading system, and voila!
The Government has found a backhanded way to subsidise nuclear power Dan Box | 24th May 2010 Comment Energy Politics And Economics Nuclear Carbon Emissions Steel Industrialisation danboxcomment.jpg …
There were deaths, pollution and substandard goods, but last year’s slew of negative
publicity may have encouraged China to face up to its responsibilities, says Isabel Hilton
… of law at home, coupled with unrestrained corruption and lax standards of public health, … is serious in its efforts to root out corruption and institute good governance, it …
Vandana Shiva explains to the Ecologist how the global anti-GM food movement resonates with the Occupy Wall Street protests
… own occupy movement in the form of the anti-corruption movement. So we are talking about … point is with every resource grab there is corruption and beyond a point, how much coal, …
Haiti is a failed state: one of those places that just can’t seem to get its act together, despite the best efforts of benevolent Western powers. Or so the mainstream media would have you believe. Yet history tells us a more complicated story.
… in them. Aristide’s party was afflicted by corruption (though nowhere near as much as … in the country. So, it is no surprise that corruption is widespread. The Western media …