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Source of Article: The Guardian Filipino government body gives 47 ‘carbon majors’ 45 days to respond to allegations of human rights violations resulting from climate change The world’s largest oil, coal, cement and mining companies have been given 45 days to respond to a complaint that their greenhouse gas emissions have violated the human rights …

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Source of Article: www.resourcegovernance.org Indonesia is a classic example of a country that has overcome the oil curse. This was partly due to wiser spending politics as we weathered extremely volatile global oil prices between 1974 and 1989. Eventually, we moved from an oil-dependent economy to a more diversified one. A looming quandary is whether we …

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A new study vindicates climate models, which are accurately predicting the rate of ocean heat accumulation For those of us who are concerned about global warming, two of the most critical questions we ask are, “how fast is the Earth warming?” and “how much will it warm in the future?”. The first question can be …

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BY   VIRGIL HAWKINS It was the largest leak in history—11.5 million files leaked from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, that exposed the movement of massive amounts of offshore money through shell companies and bank accounts linked to thousands of corporations and individuals, including prominent politicians and celebrities. Making use of offshore financial arrangements is not …

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by Liam Barrington-Bush on 23 June, 2016 ‘The Oxymoron Appreciation Society’ re-brands the ‘Responsible Extractives Summit Is the Responsible Extractives Summit, headlined by Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Barrick Gold and others, a cynical PR move or an indication of ‘the ethical best’ an inherently-destructive industry has to offer? ‘It must be a joke,’ I thought. I was already sceptical …

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Can the social investment made by extractive companies in their host countries and communities survive company cost-cutting in the commodity downturn? The extractives industry is facing a bumpy ride, and we’re looking at a long road to recovery. Cost-cutting, efficiency and productivity are all buzz words negatively impacting local communities. Through social spending cuts, community-related …

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Source of Article: www.goxi.org There are concerns that Tanzania’s lucrative extractive industry is not generating adequate revenues and not contributing significantly to the reduction of poverty and that the country could slide into another “resource curse” a phenomenon so common in many African resource-rich countries. This was said by Dr. Martin Kijazi, a consultant at the Center …

Revenues from the Extractive Industries to Local Government Authorities: Are allocations adequate to end Poverty in Tanzania? Read More »