The three essential resources of land, energy and water are connected by the same crisis of inequality driven by increasing privatization and corporate control. While universal provision remains an eminently practical goal, it requires a shift in global priorities and wide-scale redistribution through a system of international sharing monitored by an effective and representative United Nations.
An investigation into cases of land grabbing in Uganda, focusing in particular on oil palm plantations in Kalangala, Lake Victoria. This report assesses the impacts on rural communities and on the local environment, and questions who benefits from these projects, by Friends of the Earth International.
Here are five simple rules to help understand how loony our government
policy is when it comes to subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. By some estimates,
getting rid of all the planet’s fossil fuel subsidies could get us
halfway to ending the threat of climate change, says Bill McKibben.
Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control
of valuable water resources for their own benefit, depriving local
communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and
ecosystems. A report by Sylvia Kay and Jennifer Franco.
The trend of privatisation and commercialisation of water services, which set
in in the 1980s and continued throughout the 1990s, has come to a halt due
to the process’ own failures, and has given rise to a return of those services
into efficient public management, according to a new book.
As high-level delegates attend the sixth World Water Forum in Marseille, social justice and environmental groups are protesting against the 'trade show' that lacks legitimacy and promotes the interests of large transnational corporations. Their message to policymakers: 'Our water is not for sale!'
Just as in the Greek myth, when Pandora opened the
box and let out all the troubles known to mortals, so too the new wave
of land grabbing for mining is leading to unimaginable destruction. If
hope does remain, we must wake-up and act now. A report by The Gaia Foundation.
The phrase 'energy
security' obscures increasing
inequality, diverts attention from the need to slow global warming and
nurtures underlying conflicts. In sum, it gets in the way of effective
discussion about, and organisation for, a democratic, fossil-free
future. A report by The Corner House.
