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Climate Debt

The overconsumption of the available capacity of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate system to absorb greenhouse gases by the developed countries has run up a climate debt to developing countries and Mother Earth.


On the first anniversary of the UNHRC resolution to address corporate abuses, this Feature Map updates the state of some cases presented in the Geneva PPT Hearing (June 2014) and serves as an important reminder of the continuity of corporate impunity

Fracking Frenzy

The high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, generates serious and large-scale environmental and human health concerns.

Mining conflicts in Latin America

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Renuka Dam Project, HP, India

Thirsty Delhi drying up Himalayan rivers amidst lack of clarity and transparency by the government


This conflict centered on the operations of a sand mining company that affected local water supply, damaged burial grounds and destroyed a community's forest plantation. However, they were not able to get adequate compensation for their tree loss.

Monocultivos amenazan La laguna Matusagaratí, Darién, Panamá

La privatización de tierras en La Laguna Matusagaratí para favorecer los monocultivos de palma aceitera y arroz ha llevado a la contaminación y desagüe de 30.000 hectáreas

PPT case: Glencore-Katanga Mining Ltd., Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

The largest worldwide production of Cobalt brings environmental and water pollution, but also child and forced labour, smuggling of materials, fiscal and tax evasion, violence on activists and human rights defenders


Illegal river sand mining increases with Bac Ninh's construction boom. While few actors appropriate large profits, the local population carries the environmental and socio-economic costs of river degradation.

Baia Mare gold exploitation, Romania

Cyanide spill in 2000 caused severe contamination and it took ten years to restore fauna and flora in what is called "the second Cernobyl"