The Global Atlas of Environmental Justice re-launches website tracking ecological conflicts globally
The EJOLT project has launched a new phase of the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, an interactive map that catalogues thousands of localized stories of resistance against damaging projects: from mines to toxic waste sites to oil refining operations to areas of deforestation. The new platform was presented at the project closing meeting, an international conference on environmental justice organized on the 3rd of March in Brussels by the European Environmental Bureau.
The new platform integrates geo-spatial data to present conflicts in context and expands its coverage, with special attention to fracking, mining in Latin America and to the climate debt. The Atlas has improved coverage from countries where information is hard to get, like China, Kazakhstan and Western Sahara.
The Atlas is an initiative of the Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project. This collaborative research project dedicated to supporting environmental justice organizations is supported by the European Union and coordinated by Prof. Joan Martinez Alier at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB).
Atles: http://ejatlas.org/