Will the World Bank ever change? After decades of promises, initiatives, accords and re-branding, Bruce rich finds that the World Bank is the same old indiscriminate money-pump, still funding social and environmental catastrophe worldwide.
… money-pump, still funding social and environmental catastrophe worldwide. A powerful new book by environmental campaigner Bruce Rich, … continued to cause major local and global environmental damage and inflict harm on …
The greatest myth of the consumer society is that modern lifestyles are 'normal' - and this can continue forever because we're clever little apes who can solve any problem, writes Paul Mobbs. That hubris, in the face of insurmountable ecological limits, will be our collective downfall.
… Beyond failure at COP21, environmentalism has its own shortcomings to … That's a critical question if you're an environmentalist - though it requires an … dangerous climate change, I believe that the environmental movement has its own policy …
Almost all UK laws that regulate fracking's impact on the environment emanate from EU directives and regulations, writes Zachary Davies Boren. Once out of the EU, the UK would be free to amend them, scrap them or simply ignore them. And given the UK's record of support for fracking and lobbying in Brussels for deregulation, that may be exactly what the Brexiteers have planned.
… have planned. Almost all of the UK's environmental regulations on fracking could be … noise, climate change, biodiversity and environmental liability are among the numerous … EU law are rules forcing firms to carry out environmental assessments prior to drilling …
Coal leases on public lands operated by the US Bureau of Land Management are responsible for 40% of US coal production and 14% of total US CO2 emissions, writes Mike Gaworecki - yet their environmental impacts have not been reviewed in 35 years.
… BLM sued - no environmental review of coal leasing since … emissions, writes Mike Gaworecki - yet their environmental impacts have not been reviewed … of Land Management (BLM) last performed an environmental review of its coal leasing …
Protects against the extraction of fossil fuels and other natural resources - ecological distribution conflicts - cannot simply be resolved by payments of compensation. That is because for most people outside of the corporate boardroom, money is not the primary concern. JOAN MARTINEZ ALIER, a leading academic, investigates
… Environmental protests succeed 20 percent of … ALIER, a leading academic, investigates The Environmental Justice Atlas or EJAtlas of the … that lead to failure or success in achieving environmental justice. Social studies can be …
Six environment heroes, one from each continent, are honoured for their work today - fighting threats from giant coal mines to forest destruction, fracking, high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports.
… reports. San Francisco. The Goldman Environmental Foundation today announced the … Prize for the environment, the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize. Suren Gazaryan, Russia An … bans on fracking. Background The Goldman Environmental Prize was established in 1989 by …
We must beware an 'environmental' agenda that excludes the human dimension, Pope Francis writes in his recent Encyclical: the poor are least to blame for the ecological and climate crises, yet they are its primary victims. Humanity must make enduring decisions about the world we and our children will share.
… Social and environmental justice: the struggle is one! … pope-francis-cut.jpg We must beware an 'environmental' agenda that excludes the human … consider the effects on people's lives of environmental deterioration, current models of …
China's State Council has announced plans to make green industries central to the economy by 2015.....
… the council said that under the new plan the environmental protection sector will grow by … a major cost to its environment and even its environmental ministry has described the country's environmental situation as "grim". Under the …
The threat posed to nature and society by the massive expansion of industrial, fossil fuel economies was discussed by a generation of authors 60 years ago. What can they teach us today?
… and economics thinking that helped define the environmental movement from the 1960s onwards. … ever before. More nature was being eroded as environmental damage was ignored. Download our … evolving today, and which came to define environmental campaigns across the world, as …
The EU is already paying farmers and landowners for creating and maintaining valuable habitats, write Dominic Hogg & Luke Dale-Harris. But could the UK do better by creating markets in 'ecosystem services' that would put financial value on clean water, key wildlife habitats, endangered species and precious landscapes?
… has been reliant on the EU for its income, environmental regulation and rural development … chunk of which is reserved for funding environmental measures. Without this, our … this may well be about to change. As the new environmental secretary, Andrea Leadsom is in …
How the UN plans on making money from environmental refugees.
… Refugee Environmental Protection Fund: fix or fiction? … How the UN plans on making money from environmental refugees. Environmental disasters to 2022 have displaced …
Public Health England is guilty of gross scientific misconduct, writes Paul Mobbs, for its apparently deliberate whitewashing of the public health impacts of fracking. But it's all part of a pattern of maladministration that reaches to the heart of government.
… literature for evidence of hazardous environmental impacts, gender-bending … its authors suggest that many of the environmental and public health problems … released into the water or the soil" ; A US Environmental Protection Agency report [6] …
Conventional economic analyses of trade tend only to discern the flows of money, writes NICK MEYNEN. But by also considering biophysical metrics - such as material and energy flows, and embodied water and land - ecological economists can identify the asymmetric flows of resources obscured by the apparent reciprocity of market prices.
… global economic system that creates regional environmental imbalances. A team from the global Environmental Justice Organizations, … can such conflicts be turned into forces for environmental sustainability? This team mapped …
While other countries apply themselves to environmental challenges from climate change to nature protection, Russia - with its massive wealth of nature and natural resources - is stubbornly refusing to take part, writes Lucy E J Woods. And as the economy declines, the pressure is on: to ignore environmental regulations, and clamp down on environmental defenders.
… While other countries apply themselves to environmental challenges from climate change … declines, the pressure is on: to ignore environmental regulations, and clamp down on environmental defenders. Russia is the globe's …
A health study in Pennsylvania, USA, shows that people living near fracking and other natural gas wells are more likely to suffer from skin conditions and upper respiratory symptoms. It calls for further study of the associations, including the role of specific air and water exposures.
… ' was published online this month in Environmental Health Perspectives , a journal … scientist at the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program and lecturer at … need for further research into the health and environmental implications of this form of …
New Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) watchdog warns of impending tipping points and demands action from UK Government.
… Beament | 13th May 2022 | News Office For Environmental Protection UK Government Brexit … Economics 2.28847856.jpg New Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) watchdog warns … must be tackled as urgent priorities, a new environmental watchdog has warned. Overfishing …
The oil and gas industry is disrupting communities and damaging ecosystems worldwide, writes David Poritz. Tough, independent social and environmental standards for the industry can bring urgently-needed improvements to company practices - even where government regulation has failed.
… David Poritz. Tough, independent social and environmental standards for the industry can … of oil development have left a legacy of environmental destruction and societal … solution to the social, public health, and environmental ills caused by reckless oil and …
Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma, writes Daniel Macmillen - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
… Latin American progressives and environmental duplicity Daniel Macmillen | … progressive, anti-imperialist, and environmentalist politics. Some of these … is this deficiency more blatant than in the environmental sphere. Latin American states, …
Low oil prices are putting a stop to some of the world's most environmentally damaging 'extreme energy' projects, writes Paul Mobbs, and may close down the entire fracking and tar sands industries. So why are so many 'Greens' issuing dire warnings, instead of celebrating the good news?
… Environmentalists' oil price panic reflects … putting a stop to some of the world's most environmentally damaging 'extreme energy' … of a more general problem of how the environmental debate handles complex issues. …
A second canal joining the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is planned for Nicaragua, writes Nathan Wood. But the gigantic project is raising growing fears due to a grossly unfair contract, glaring failures of process, close links to the Chinese government, and its enormous - but uncosted - ecological impacts.
… an oil pipeline and a railway could be an environmental disaster. With huge environmental impacts and questionable motives … the project, economists, sociologists and environmentalists are already voicing …
The Government is struggling to spin its policy to fast track fracking, writes Paul Mobbs. So as it cuts the public out of the regulatory process, exempts exploratory wells from controls, and forces the Environment Agency to issue permits with 1-2 weeks, its spin machine has resorted to outright lies and misinformation to conceal the scale of the attack on our environmental rights.
… to conceal the scale of the attack on our environmental rights. The Department of Energy … (not my word, I'm quoting paragraph 14 of the Environmental Audit Committee's report on … of national gas demand - and also notes the environmental concerns about the process. That …
A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
… A report for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which was quoted … off [29] . Paul Mobbs is an independent environmental consultant, investigator, author … James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Makiko Sato, Environmental Research Letters, vol.8 no.1 …
Why don’t we have any proper system of environmental law?
… Why don’t we have any proper system of environmental law? A series of legal rights … them .” But while these areas have grown, environmental law has seen no similar … In Britain there is still no system of environmental law despite half a century of …