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Almeria – Water Deprivation
The case concerns the abstractions of huge quantities of water from aquifers in the Almeria region of Spain ...

Amazon, a threatened living entity

Argentina: Cyanide spill in San Juan

Argentina: Lithium Mining Jujuy

Balkan Rivers Case

Brazil: Amazon Belo Sun gold mine

British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Case

Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement

Canada: Uranium mining impacts

Caso Chiquitania, Chaco Y Amazonia Vs. Estado Plurinacional De Bolivia

Chevron/Texaco Case

Chile: Aclara Resources heavy rare earths mining in Penco

Coastal Gaslink Pipeline (Canada)

Condor Mirador Mine Case
The Ecuadorian State, March 5, 2012 signed a contract which enables the exploration and production of copper in a fragile ecosystem ...

Defenders of Nature and Mother Earth Case
The UDRME requires all human beings and institutions to defend the rights of Mother Earth and of all beings ...

EACOP (East African Crude Oil) Pipeline

Ecuador: 7 Mining cases
False solutions to the climate change crisis
Geoengineering, carbon markets, and other greenwashing activities proposed in the international fora have not halted climate change or biodiversity loss. These false solutions act as a distraction from fossil fuels coming out of the ground, and justify further extraction. As climate chaos worsens and global temperature rise increases, false solutions provide decision-makers and fossil fuel executives impunity for lack of real action.

French Guiana Case

Gas pipeline Mozambique

Glacier Case

Hasdeo Arand Case (India)

Just Transition

Keystone XL Pipeline

Lignite mining in the Hambach forest

Louisiana USA

Marseille Case

Minería de litio en el desierto de Atacama

Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (South Africa)

MVP Pipeline

Oil Spill Verde Island Passage & Manila Bay Oil Spill (Philippines)

Patagonia: reserva de agua y vida

Privatización del agua: el agua como objeto en Chile

Serbia : Dundee Precious Minerals in Homolje

Talara Refinery and New Amazon Oil expansion (Petroperu lote 64)

Tipnis Case

Trade agreements and their implications on nature

Vaca muerta case (Argentina)

Vättern Case

Yasuni ITT Case
The Yasuní ITT Case highlights Ecuador's violations of environmental and indigenous rights due to oil extraction in Yasuní National Park. The tribunal condemned the government, recommended halting extraction, and supported indigenous rights. In August 2023, a national vote stopped exploitation in Block 43, showing civil society’s impact.