Afghanistan: Environment and Ressource Policy Published: 20 March 2018 The following article on opportunities and challenges in the mining sector in Afghanistan illustrates the situation in the country at large. By Jost Pachaly and Angela Stanzel
'Public coffers are empty. This makes it all the more important to mobilise private capital for nature conservation.' Published: 21 August 2017 Do market-based instruments actually bring in that much money for nature conservation?
Towards a democratic and globally just resource policy Published: 22 May 2017 Germany depends on the import of metallic, mineral and fossil fuel resources. The extraction of these raw materials takes place at the expense of the environment and leads to human rights violations. The German Federal Government has to take these consequences adequately into account.
The Real Price of Coal in the Wartime Donbas: a Human Rights Perspective Published: 5 April 2017 This publication shows that the price of coal extraction in Donbas is not only its high production cost, but also a number of political and environmental consequences paid for by the people in Donbas and the entire population of Ukraine. pdf
Afghanistan: Fights for transparency in resource depletion Published: 8 June 2016 Responsible Democracy: The richness of Afghanistan in natural resources has great potential for conflict. Since 2012, the Heinrich Böll Foundation therefore moved deliberately in this politically sensitive terrain.
Nature: A contaminated future Published: 18 November 2015 Open-cast mining destroys the landscape of both the pit and the surrounding area. Efforts to restore these areas often fail and the surface above the underground mines sinks. A chapter from the Coal Atlas. By Eva Mahnke
Common Sense on Conflict Minerals Published: 9 December 2014 Natural resources should be a major contributor to development in some of the countries that need it most. And yet, in some of world’s poorest and most fragile states, they bring just the opposite. By Michael Gibb
