EnvironmentalJustice

We keep expanding the world’s largest database of environmental conflicts to study and help the global #environmentaljustice movement. @ERC_Research

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

The #environmental #movement has been one of the most powerful & impactful movements of our time... 👩‍🦳👳‍♂️👩‍🦱

But where would you look to understand the scale and diversity of environmental conflicts?

Follow @EnvJustice! Why? 👇👇👇

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

🧪 NEW: “PFAS and the pollution trap” by Lomé van der Donk & Llavero-Pasquina

‼️PFAS’ invisibility helps industries hide harm & delay regulation.

EJAtlas cases reveal: A “pollution trap” of job reliance + property devaluation

Read all🔗 https://t.co/QhlbO3JPOp

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

🌱 New article by Martínez-Alier & Rodríguez-Labajos:
“Development as multidimensional environmental impoverishment”

💥 Poverty isn’t just income, losing land, water, air & health makes people poorer, even under “development.”

📊 EJAtlas from cases:

🔗 https://t.co/BlF5kBUHQF

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🌍 NEW: “From Françafrique to Chinafrica?”

⚙️ Evidence of ecologically unequal exchange in both French & Chinese projects in Africa — new faces, same extractive logic.

By Cantoni, Llavero-Pasquina, Apostolopoulou, Gerber, Bond & Martínez-Alier

Read🔗 https://t.co/l8bbgy44xT

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📢 ARTICLE "Driving ecologically unequal exchange: A global analysis of multinational corporations’ role in environmental conflicts"
By Marcel Llavero-Pasquina

Read now🔗 https://t.co/56yAfELnR2

📊 Based on 3,300+ conflicts & 5,500 companies from #EJAtlas

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🌱 Long before #ClimateAction, there was resistance

📄 New article by Joan Martínez-Alier, Balzan & Holberg Prize winner: “Environmentalism of the Poor and Climate Action”

🛢️ From coal & oil protests to global climate justice via #EJAtlas

🔗 https://t.co/TH785PDdpu

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🗺️ What role do local leaders play in shaping environmental conflicts in the EU?

New open-access article by Cabras, Llavero-Pasquina, Picaud-Bello & Weber📄

🔍 Case studies from France highlight the power of scientists & grassroots leadership.

👉 https://t.co/Dr3FHrvdxp

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

📘 New book "Contested Waste" Pre-order NOW, out from 25th July!

🚮 Waste pickers sustain cities but face exclusion, criminalisation & conflict.

📊 70+ cases from the #EJAtlas uncover waste injustices & resistance across the Global South.

🔗 https://t.co/fxtI9WqDJv

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

☀️ What is Solar Capitalism?
New article by Sofia Avila-Calero 💡

📉 Capital accumulation in the name of the energy transition, exploiting land, labor and nature.

Must-read:
https://t.co/fDlLQIbokv

#SolarCapitalism #JustTransition #PoliticalEcology #ClimateJustice

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⛏️ Zijin is mining across continents, but at what socio-environmental cost?

New from Commodity Frontiers Journal N.7 📘
By Martinez-Alier & Llavero-Pasquina
⚡ #Zijin’s global rise, extractivism & conflict via #EJAtlas

🆓 https://t.co/7GK72z4JOs

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✈️ Airport megaprojects in the Global South = land grabs, displacement, & injustice.

New chapter from Contested Airport Land 📘
By Sharma, Ittner, Khambule, Mingorría & Geschewski
🌍 Focus: India, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa

🔗 https://t.co/uUoftOdMnq

#LandRights

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https://t.co/EKjYANcJlq

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

⛏️ Lithium, copper, graphite...critical for the energy transition, but at what cost?
New study maps 25 mining conflicts in the Americas.
📄 “The Politics of ‘Green’ Extraction Frontiers” by Walter, Deniau & Herrera Vargas

👉 https://t.co/EKjYANcJlq

#Mining #JustTransition

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🔥 China burns half the world’s coal — but resistance is rising.

🎨🧑‍⚖️ From art to lawsuits, “unlabelled” climate activism is reshaping China’s environmental landscape.

New chapter by Bowen Gu & Juan Liu ⬇️
https://t.co/BaUHdwaCBz

#ClimateJustice #China #EJAtlas #ClimateAction

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2/2 They argued the project ignored their rights to consultation and ancestral land.

👏The court ruled in their favor, suspending the expansion, recognizing their territorial claims, and reinforcing Indigenous consultation rights.

📸Pueblos Unidos

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🔊Security Complex in San Lucas Nextetelco🇲🇽

1/2 The Pueblos Unidos vs. Puebla Airport case in Mexico involved #Indigenous communities opposing the #airport’s expansion due to land rights violations and environmental concerns.

Read more 👉https://t.co/hCYas02aob

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For Earth day, let’s remember to do more for Environmental Justice, let’s keep contributing to growing the movement, let’s keep caring💚
#EarthDay2025

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

The #environmental #movement has been one of the most powerful & impactful movements of our time... 👩‍🦳👳‍♂️👩‍🦱

But where would you look to understand the scale and diversity of environmental conflicts?

Follow @EnvJustice! Why? 👇👇👇

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

🛑The construction of #Tesla's 1st gigafactory in #Grünheide 🇩🇪 in 2020 generated social and environmental conflicts, with deforestation, high consumption and contamination of local water bodies. In 2024 its expansion was approved, causing controversy.

⏩https://t.co/gO0YwVn1M1

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

ℹ️La "casi" Planta de Fundición de aluminio de Rio Tinto #Paraguay

Esta planta que Rio Tinto pretendía instalar (cancelada) con la energía hidroeléctrica de la región a precio subsidiado, hubiera generando un aumento en la tarifa eléctrica en Paraguay.

➡️https://t.co/dY8sP0Hou6

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

🚨Refinería de cobalto y níquel, Oklahoma🇺🇸

Westwin Resistance se opone a la refinería de cobalto y níquel, la 1ra de su tipo en los EEUU por riesgos ambientales, salud y transgresión al derecho a la Consulta Previa de los Pueblos Indígenas.

📷K.Whitley
https://t.co/gHeqbBm3zk

[EnvironmentalJustice @EnvJustice]

💧⚠️Desecamiento del lago de Pátzcuaro #Mexico
Crisis hídrica en el lago agravada en la última década por las constantes sequías, la tala clandestina, extracción ilegal para cultivos de aguacate, contaminación por la descarga de aguas residuales…

Mas: https://t.co/e79fIOIbNM