Activists are pressuring the Russian metal and mining giant's partners and financial backers to get it to change its environmental practices.
Several indigenous organizations in four countries have inked a partnership with the Indigenous Peoples Major Group (IPMG) through its Right Energy Partnership initiative, launched in July 2018, to promote a human rights-based approach to renewable energy development in their indigenous territories.
More than 1,300 cities have set targets or introduced policies to boost renewable energy, while a small but growing number are banning the use of climate-heating fuels
Spending on efforts to cut carbon emissions from energy, transport and construction in cities would bring jobs and savings, as well as curbing climate change, a new report says
Indigenous people fear for their future as the North Koel dam project, lying defunct since 1997, has been revived
The hastily approved project went forward without comment from the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe.
The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology, and begin to see biodiversity as a building block of urban environments.
Governments and businesses argue that the energy transition contributes to sustainable development and environmental conservation. And yet the confrontation between corporations and the state with Indigenous Peoples reflects a continuing oppression and repression.
For more than five decades, Indigenous communities in the northern Philippines have pushed back against the planned construction of hydropower dams on the Chico River system.