International Dialogue Project: Resource Equity in a Finite World - Resource Governance

International Dialogue Project

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Resource Equity in a Finite World

One of the great challenges of the 21st century is to bring about global equity without further overstepping the planet’s ecological limits or overusing the earth’s finite resources. Twenty years after the Rio Earth Summit and forty years after the publication of Meadows’ "Limits to Growth" the Heinrich Böll Stiftung wants to build on its successful project work on resource and agricultural policy at headquarter and country office level, and launch an international dialogue process on Resource Politics (see concept paper). We will consider various natural resources (such as oil/gas, minerals, land/soil, water, forests, biodiversity), as well as the respective challenges of management and distribution and the search for coherent approaches. The aim is to establish an international framework for fair, coherent and sustainable resource politics at the national, regional and global level.

Project

Concept Paper

International Dialogue Project

August 6, 2012 - The international dialogue project aims to engage young academics, activists and policy makers in a cooperative and creative debate. An important milestone in this process will be the Alternative Resource Summit in September 2013. more»

Essay

To Have or Have Not - Resource Equity in a Finite World

- June 22, 2012 - Global struggles over access to ever-scarcer natural resources are in full swing. Power im-balances, regulatory and democratic shortcomings, unbridled corporate power and blind belief in new technologies need a counterweight: alternative, socially equitable and ecologically sustainable resource politics is the way forward. Lili Fuhr and Christine Chemnitz more»

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Links

Resource Politics – A commented link list

September 24, 2012 - Articles and publications sorted according to the resource they focus on. Due to the nexus between the different resources, most of the studies touch upon more than one resource. more»

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Research Project

From Money to Metals

- Despite the current financial "crisis" investors are pouring money into mining companies and projects, with potentially negative consequences for thousands of communities around the world. Launched in 2008, and now available as a regularly-updated data base, "From Money to Metals" is a vital resource to discover who is funding what, and where, in one of the most potentially destructive of all global industries. By Nostromo Research, 2009. more»

Publications

E-Paper

The German Raw Material Strategy: Taking Stock

August 27, 2012 -

Nearly two years after the German Government’s raw materials strategy was first published in October 2010, the present paper takes stock of how individual core elements of the raw materials strategy have been put into practice, with a focus on the promotion of foreign trade and on development cooperation.

Heidi Feldt more»

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Publication

Green economies around the world? Implications of resource use for development and the environment

- June 30, 2012 - This new report reveals, for the first time, data on resource use and resource effi ciency for all countries of the world over three decades, from 1980 – 2008. The data covers the global, continental and country level, featuring illustrative case studies. Monika Dittrich, Stefan Giljum, Stephan Lutter, Christine Polzin more»

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Publication

North South Transitions to Green Economies

- June 19, 2012 - The worldwide and sustainable transition of energy systems will only succeed if the economic and technological capacities of all countries are involved. Few developing countries have considerable production capacities for climate-friendly technologies. If the creation of attractive enabling environments in the global South goes hand in hand with new ways of careful export support in the global North, this will work as a global and fair Green New Deal. more»

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Publication Series on Ecology, Volume 26

International Resource Politics

- June 19, 2012 - Natural resources are back on the agenda. This paper underlines a new dimension of international relations and pleads for new approaches, called international resource politics, which can be used for ongoing debates concerning green economy and transition strategies. more»

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Publication Series on Ecology, Volume 22

Critique of the Green Economy - Toward Social and Environmental Equity

- June 13, 2012 - The idea of growth as the way to end poverty and escape economic and financial crisis remains largely undisputed and is currently reflected in the concept of the green economy. But not everything that is “green” and efficient is also environmentally sustainable and socially equitable. This essay outlines a policy of less, of wealth in moderation, to enable the Earth’s resources to make a life of dignity and without need possible for all. more»

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Policy paper

Biomassters Battle to Control the Green Economy

- June 12, 2012 - At Rio+20, the concept of the "green economy" focuses on industrial production from biomass as one way to overcome fossil fuel dependency. The push for a bio-based economy comes with a call for market-based mechanisms for the financialization of the Earth’s natural processes, re-branded as ‘ecosystem services’, which also encourage land and water grabs. etc Group and Heinrich Boell Foundation more»

e-Paper

Less hunger through more ecology: Feeding the world with organic farming

- November 10, 2011 - Although the world's population has reached seven billion people, there is sufficient food in the world to feed the global population. Still about 1 billion are undernourished. How can we feed the world? And what role do environmental issues in agriculture play? Johannes Kotschi more»

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Publication

Marginal Oil: What is driving oil companies dirtier and deeper?

- May 24, 2011 - This paper is a document that describes the drivers behind marginal oil investments and gives an overview of existing and potential projects across the globe. It contains important analysis that should be public knowledge and will productively feed the ongoing debate, from Cancun to Durban to Rio and beyond. Sarah Wykes and Lorne Stockman more»

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Cover: How to feed the World´s growing Billions

Publication

Study: How to feed the World´s growing Billions

- May 16, 2011 - This study aims to clarify the methods used and the assumptions made in the FAO world food projections, which forecast the need for a 70 % production increase between 2005/07 and 2050, as well as to discuss the implications of this figure. more»

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The Amazon forest and river, reflecting heaven and clouds

Dollars, Hopes and Controversies - REDD in the Amazon

- November 11, 2010 - The abbreviation REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) was only commonly heard among insiders in climate negotiations but it now has entered the lingo of NGOs, indigenous organisations and action groups in the Amazon. While many have pinned their hopes on REDD to protect forests and the climate, others see the dangers of commercialising nature and habitats. By Thomas Fatheuer more»

13.12.	Arrival City – Potenziale und Sprengkraft - Eine Buchpräsentation mit Doug Saunders Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
13.12.	Rebellen, Ranger und Ressourcen - Wie Kongos Wildhüter den Virunga-Nationalpark vor Krieg und Erdöl-Konzernen schützen - Podiumsdiskussion Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin

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