Check out the report, launched today at the #UNForumBHR: www.inclusivedevelopment.net/just-transit...
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If CBG can fulfill these expectations, we believe this innovative approach to community-company agreement making can ensure better outcomes for all, setting an example for the mining industry and setting the stage for a truly just energy transition.

The report includes a list of local communities’ expectations for CBG and its business partners, including shareholders @riotinto.bsky.social and @alcoa.bsky.social developed with the aim of avoiding harm, conflict and related future costs.

We've published a policy proposal calling for a new approach to community participation about decision-making in investment projects that impact their land & lives, one that is rooted in respect for their dignity, knowledge and capabilities to make their own development choices.
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While a rapid shift to renewable energy use is imperative, transition mineral mining, large-scale renewable energy infrastructure and related projects are enormously land-intensive, and current approaches to land acquisition for routinely lead to forced displacement and other rights violations.

Community reps & their partners will be joined by Pichamon Yeophantong, PhD, chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, to discuss the strategies that led to their success & the implications for corporate accountability in SEA & beyond.
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Panelists will also discuss our “Policy Proposal to Advance a Just Energy Transition for Project Affected Communities,” which has been endorsed by over 60 organizations & puts forward 6 measures that mine operators, investors, & buyers should adopt to ensure a human rights-based approach to mining.

The event, which you can join in person or via Zoom, will coincide w/ the release of a new report, which addresses the situation of communities that could be affected by expansion of one of the world's largest bauxite mines—a joint venture of Rio Tinto, Alcoa, Dadco and the Guinean government.

That’s why Inclusive Development International is co-hosting this event w/ Afrewatch, Action Mines & Lead the Charge that will focus on the perspectives of Guinean communities who lie in the path of bauxite mining that will supply raw materials for electric vehicles & renewable energy systems.

Read more about our research and the #StopEACOP campaign’s warning to TotalEnergies and CNOOC shareholders and bondholders in @banktrack.bsky.social’s latest EACOP risk briefing.
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For banks and investors that continue financing Total and CNOOC, this increases their financial risk and deepens their exposure to the environmental destruction, human rights abuses and climate chaos that EACOP is creating.

The project sponsors planned to raise bank loans to cover 60% of the project's costs. But our research suggests that, having failed to raise most of the money, they now plan to self-finance almost 90% of the pipeline—over 4.8 billion dollars.

If your organization wants to support this call, you can read the full proposal and endorse it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

An approach to engaging project-affected people that is rooted in respect for their dignity, knowledge and capabilities to make their own development choices, is actually not such a radical proposition. It just means giving effect to commitments many institutions and companies already make.

60+ rights groups have endorsed the proposal, which provides a framework for shifting from the prevailing paradigm that accepts forced displacement of communities “in the way of development," to a truly rights-based approach to community participation in decision-making that affects their lives.