August/September 2022 Updates

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, It was a dry and hot end of summer in southern Sweden, where the POLLEN Secretariat now resides. Since we skipped the August newsletter, brace yourselves for a two-month newsletter. It is a bit longer than the usual newsletter, but it is full of lots of new content! Has your … Read more August/September 2022 Updates

(Hyperlink fixed!) These are the new members of the POLLEN Secretariat 2022-2024

In mid-August LUCSUS (Lund University’s Centre for Sustainability Studies) became the new home of POLLEN’s Secretariat. We present you the eight people who will be actively involved with the duties of the Secretariat: Torsten Krause: Torsten is a Senior lecturer at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden. His research involves the fields of … Read more (Hyperlink fixed!) These are the new members of the POLLEN Secretariat 2022-2024

How EU public money finances environmental sacrifice: A call for change

By Alexander Dunlap This is a lightly edited and expanded testimony made at the European Parliament PETI Hearing, “Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining Activity in the EU,” on December 2, 2021. It confronts the European Commission for publicly funding practices organized to persuade publics to accept mining operations. This funding stream, it is argued, … Read more How EU public money finances environmental sacrifice: A call for change

The final showdown – ZAD Rhineland vs RWE, Germany

By Andrea Brock A small earth wall separates the tiny village of Lützerath from the enormous diggers operating in Garzweiler II, one of three opencast lignite coal mines operated by energy company RWE in the German Rhineland. Lignite is a type of heavy coal that is extracted and burnt locally. The mine is 235 metres … Read more The final showdown – ZAD Rhineland vs RWE, Germany

Courting justice: when legal challenges to corporate land grabs go wrong

Contributed by: Sango Mahanty, Jean-Christophe Diepart and Sarou Long In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of Indigenous Bunong farmers from Mondulkiri in Northeastern Cambodia. Represented by French Laywer Fiodor Rilov, and with civil society support, the group accused the French Bolloré Group and their subsidiary company, Compagnie du Cambodge (controlled by … Read more Courting justice: when legal challenges to corporate land grabs go wrong

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If you have any news items to share, please send it to the same email: politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com

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