This third edition of our Investor's Eye on the Amazon quarterly email newsletter is jam-packed with important updates from a number of our campaigns.
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Investor's Eye on the Amazon - May 2011
This is the second edition of our Investor's Eye on the Amazon quarterly email newsletter, featuring a new report entitled "An Analysis of the Operational Risks to Chevron Corporation from Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco."
Investor's Eye on the Amazon - February 2011
This is the first issue of our Investor's Eye on the Amazon quarterly newsletter, an initiative that seeks to provide institutional investors, industry analysts and researchers with an informative and sophisticated analysis of the most pressing issues facing the Amazon rainforest.
Amazon in Focus 2011: A Year in the Struggle to Defend the Amazon
A Year in the Struggle to Defend the Amazon
Defending the Amazon is a defining battle of our time and has the potential to shift the balance towards justice, ecological balance and the recognition of our interdependence on nature and living systems. In this year's Amazon in Focus, we share stories from this struggle.
Risk Assessment: Ivanhoe Energy and the Pungarayacu Project in Ecuador
An Amazon Watch Risk Assessment
This report explores risks faced by Ivanhoe Energy investors from the Pungarayacu project, as well as those stemming from the company's history and questionable fiduciary management.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Chevron Ecuador Risk Analysis Report
Drawing on the unusually rich and revealing publicly available legal filings in this case, this report examines the potential damage and disruption to Chevron's operations from enforcement of the $18 billion Ecuador court judgment that was delivered on February 14, 2011. This report also assesses the risk that Chevron's aggressive counter...
BID en la Mira (IDB Watch)
A publication that exposes the failures of the Inter-American Bank.
Report of the Independent Territory Monitoring and Training Program of FECONACO
This report by the Federation of Indigenous Communities of the Corrientes River (FECONACO) and Peruvian NGO Shinai documents the ongoing impacts of oil drilling in Oil Blocks 1-AB and 8 in the Northern Peruvian Amazon.
Colombia's U'wa Face New Threats
U'wa Indigenous Group Confront New Threats to their Lives and Territory
Known as "the people who speak", the U'wa are a peaceful Indigenous community of roughly 6,200 people who live in the cloud forest of northeastern Colombia, straddling the border with Venezuela. They have fought against oil development on their land for over 15 years.
Brazil's Belo Monte Dam: A Major Threat to the Amazon and Its People
This briefing paper focuses on the Brazilian government's plans to build the third-largest dam in the world and one of the Amazon's most controversial development projects.
Understanding Recent Developments in the Landmark Chevron-Ecuador Case
After more than 17 years of litigation, the monumental class action against oil giant Chevron (formerly Texaco) for widespread environmental devastation in the Ecuadorian Amazon is nearing an end. This briefing paper provides a brief background on this historic legal battle, followed by an outline of some of Chevron's strategies to evade...
