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Eco Debt is the impact of policies of northern governments and their multi-national coporates for historical impcats caused by mining and industrial polution on the environment that including the social impacts of such practices. South Africa has a number of Eco Debt Cases
South African Eco Debt Campaign South African NGOs have met twice during 2003 to put Eco Debt firmly back on the agenda of the South Africa Reparations Task Team. Jubilee South Africa launched their eco debt process by inviting a number of environmental justice NGOs and CBOs from around South Africa.  aboveSouth African Eco Debt meeting Johannesburg - July 2003 The Africa Process The process has seen a number of meetings take place over the last few years with the launch of the Eco-creditors Alliance for the Africa region being held in Ouidah during the South South Conference on Eco Debt which was held in Benin in 2001.  Speaking out on issues Eco Debt Ouidah  Nimmo Bassy of Environmental Rights Action Nigeria announcing the formation of the African Eco Creditor Alliance in Ouidah, Benin. During the lead up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development that was held in Johannesburg during 2002 a number of meetings were held on the subject of Ecological Debt.
Become an online researcher, help document Eco Debt, by down loading the questionnaire on ecodebt and use the example of the questionnaire for THOR Chemicals to help you fill in your local issue and fax it to Earthlife eThekwini EXAMPLE QUESTIONNAIRE THOR CHEMICALS QUESTIONNAIRE FOR COMPLETION Please fax completed questionnaire to 0866728081 or e-mail the questionaire to Bryan Ashe [email protected]
South African NGOs have set up a task team to look at documenting cases studies of ecological debt and the team consists of Earthlife Africa eThekwini, Environmental Justice Networking Forum and Jubilee South Africa. Earthlife Afric a eThekwini Bryan Ashe [email protected] Environmental Justice Networking Forum Ace Khabane [email protected] Jubilee South Africa George Dor [email protected]
AIDC Debt Page - South Africa Environmental Justice Networking Forum Eco Debt Home Page Friends of the Earth Eco Debt Page Environmental Rights Action
Click here:  Send an email to the head figures of the World Bank Group to urge them to adopt the recommendations of their own review on the negative impacts of World Bank financed oil, gas and mining projects. click here:  It's no time for a party to celebrate the IMF and World Bank's 60th Birthday.The institutions have left many harmful legacies over the past 60 years, but perhaps none so debilitating from the perspective of human development and justice as the DEBT. The legacy of the IMF and the World Bank is that, today: Africa pays $15 billion in debt service each year to the IMF, World Bank and rich country governments. This is more than the continent receives each year in aid. Debt service to creditors including the IMF and World Bank accounts for almost half of the Philippines' annual budget, double the amount the government spends on social services; Haiti, the most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere, pays twice as much on debt service as it does on health care, while the IMF/World Bank have denied Haiti access to even limited debt relief; When money is released from paying debt service, it has been used to fight poverty -- Uganda nearly tripled school enrollment. But the IMF/World Bank's debt relief program is limited to too few countries, does not provide 100% debt cancellation, and forces countries to adhere to harmful conditions that increase poverty. ?? |
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