The “eyesore of the year” award is given by the Network Social Responsibility (NeSoVe) - a network of NGOs and workers' representatives - to companies, organizations, institutions and individuals who have acted very irresponsibly and without regard to social and / or environmental damage, often using elaborately designed Sustainability and CSR reports, lobbying and sponsorship. The blame and shame award “eyesore of the year” aims at uncovering and denouncing this behaviour to demand corporate accountability.
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Online resources and in-depth investigations on the social, ecological and political impact of French transnational corporations.
See http://www.multinationales.org/?lang=en
Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing. “There you go” is a short, satirical film, from Survival International, that tells the story of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of ‘development’. For further information see http://www.survivalinternational.org/
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February 25, 2014
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By Joseph Rahall and Milton Kainyande - Green Scenery
Some 6000-7000 indigenous people and other communities in Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills of the ElgeyoMarakwet County, in Kenya, are threatened with forced eviction.
REDD Monitor website with articles and blog in English.
Most widely read website with information and analysis critical of REDD and trading in ‘ecosystem services’
www.redd-monitor.org
Academic article by R. Muradian and others.
http://r1.ufrrj.br/cpda/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Conservation-Letters.pdf
In October 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) denounced the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam project, on the grounds that its execution would impact on their ancestral lands, which had been illicitly seized to open the way for the dam’s construction.
FERN Briefing that describes “how biodiversity offset schemes have fared so far and shows that the picture is far from rosy”. With examples showing how biodiversity offsets are used in the UK and France to undermine local opposition against unnecessary large infrastructure projects.