On April 15, 2005, the Pingnan Green Association, a grantee of Greengrants, achieved an unprecedented victory against the Rongping Chemical Affiliated Company. An Intermediate People’s Court in Fujian Province ordered the company, China’s largest chlorate manufacturer, to pay the people of Xiping nearly $30,000 in reparations for health and environmental damages. The decision came four […]
While much political and economic attention has been focused on the oil industry over the past several years, the links between oil extraction and environmental, health and social problems have been largely ignored. According to a recent report by Environmental Rights Action (ERA)/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, a Greengrants grantee, 2.5 billion cubic feet of […]
The Observatorio Interamericano de los Derechos de los Migrantes (OCIM), The Center for Human Rights and Enviroment (CEDHA), the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), and Greengrants funded an urgent fact-finding mission to Ecuador.
by Mariah Ford, Greengrants intern Chinese environmental policy has come a long way since Mao declared that man must “conquer nature and thus attain freedom from nature.” Over the last decade, China has witnessed a huge increase in its environmental organizations, which have attracted thousands of members. By promoting environmental goals and fostering a broad […]
by Michael Kramer-Duffield The tsunami of December 2004 devastated many coastal areas of South and Southeast Asia. Some of the hardest-hit areas were those in which coastal mangroves had been severely depleted due to overdevelopment and poor resource management, among other reasons. In these mangrove-depleted areas there was little or nothing to buffer the impact […]
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