by oilwatch | Jun 6, 2020 | Africa, Press Release, Statement
As we celebrate the World Environmental Day (WED) today, 5th June 2020, a day set aside by UN annually to encourage worldwide awareness and action for the protection of the environment with the theme, ‘Time for Nature (Biodiversity),’ with a focus on its...
by oilwatch | Dec 8, 2019 | Africa, Global, Latin America, Press Release, South Asia, Statement
Proposal for COP21, Paris, December 2015 The Annex 0 proposal was made to COP21 in Paris, in December 2015 and further released at COP25, Madrid, December 2019. The purpose of this document is to present the commitments and efforts of the peoples, nationalities, and...
by oilwatch | Aug 5, 2015 | Latin America
YASunidos to the country. Apparently the “most important things in life,” like the politic, the economy, the macro-economy… are only valid in so far as they present facts, numbers, and statistics. The more and larger these figures are, the better is,...
by oilwatch | May 17, 2015 | Latin America
Marcelo Calazans, Tamra Gilbertson and Daniela Meirelles* In 2005, the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras discovered hydrocarbons below the geological salt layer in the Tupi field located in the Atlantic Ocean off-shore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2006 a consortium of...
by oilwatch | Jul 9, 2014 | Africa, News
MDG : 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize : outh Durban Community Environmental Alliance Desmond D’Sa South Durban environmental alliance co-founder, Desmond D’Sa, recipient of the 2014 Goldman prize. Photograph: Jenny Bates for the Guardian The smells...