by HOMEf | Mar 18, 2019 | Fossil Politics, Press Release
Government Should Immediately Withdraw the Order for Resumption of Oil Exploitation in Ogoni Land The Health of Mother Earth Foundation and We the People notes with alarm and unease the recent memo reportedly originating from the Presidency and addressed to the Group...
by HOMEf | Mar 1, 2019 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Sustainability Academy
The 15th anniversary edition of the Elevate Festival is dedicated – in times of felt facts and new myths – to the key concept of today’s knowledge society: “TRUTH” – and its many (un)secret siblings. One focus of the discourse...
by HOMEf | Dec 14, 2018 | Fossil Politics
Officials from nearly 200 countries are in Katowice, Poland, to negotiate how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. But so are representatives from many of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, including a lobby group that represents BP, Shell and ExxonMobil....
by HOMEf | Dec 13, 2018 | Fossil Politics
Today what do we say? Kick the polluters out of the COP Yesterday the world celebrated 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights In the Niger Delta we have endured 60 years of gross oil pollution, gas flares and human rights abuses Today the...
by HOMEf | Dec 6, 2018 | Fossil Politics
Most scenarios limiting warming to 1.5°C involve deployment of risky and unproven technologies. Fossil fuel companies are potential profiteers and proponents of geoengineering. Support for those technologies, e.g in the land sector, could in the future also be sought...
by HOMEf | Aug 11, 2018 | Fossil Politics
Oilwatch Africa network members, Lamu community representatives, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community-based organisations (CBOs) met in Lamu Kenya, on 7th and 8th August, 2018 at a conference on the theme: Beyond Fossil Fuels. The conference considered the...
