Bruxelles, the Global Atlas on Environmental Justice
The Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project presents its Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, a visually attractive and interactive online mapping platform detailing around 1000 environmental conflicts (and growing). The Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project launched on March 2014 its Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, a visually attractive and interactive...
Launch of EJOLT environmental justice map
Some say the EU is active on the environmental justice agenda. There is the Aarhus Convention (2001), Environmental Liability Directive or ELD (2010) and the Environmental Crimes Directive (2012). But while Aarhus is a great tool for access to information, participation and justice; and the ELD should in theory prevent and remedy environmental damage, most member states limited the scope of the latter. Due to room for interpretation,...
Discover EJOLT reports on environmental justice
We share here some of the reports developed by CDCA and their partners in the EJOLT project. Digging deep Corporate Liability. Environmental Justice strategies in the world of oil Abstract: The impacts provoked by the expanding oil industry encompass environmental destruction, health impacts and violations of human rights. The increasing contamination jeopardizes safe conditions of life and destroys means of livelihood of vulnerable...
Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations
The EJOLT project team, coordinated by Prof. Joan Martinez Alier from ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, recently published the following analysis article on the basis of the exchange and outcomes of the project in the Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 21, 2014. Abstract In their own battles and strategy meetings since the early 1980s, EJOs (environmental justice organizations) and their networks have introduced several...
Italian mothers battle the mafia and toxic waste
We publish here a comment from [ENTITLE project->https://cdca.it/spip.php?article2176&lang=en] fellow, Salvatore De Rosa, on waste crisis and social mobilisation in the Campania region in Italy. The issue of Campania is reaching (again, after the urban waste crisis of 2008) the international news. The two articles below report on the strategy of a group of mothers who lost their children because of premature diseases, that with...
Environmental Justice Documentary: We are going to remain here!
‘We are going to remain here!’ is a 29-min documentary in which scholars, activists and people impacted by environmental injustices provide their views and testimonies to answer the question: ‘What is environmental justice?’ The Documentary has been produced by LaMCA, the Multimedia lab of Environmental Conflicts at ICTA-UAB and is promoted by the EJOLT project network. Watch the documentary and support its...
