El cabildeo de Anglo American a favor de energías sucias y falsas soluciones para el clima

This report by Friends of the Earth International, Corporate Europe Observatory, and the Transnational Institute examines how the British-South African mining company Anglo American uses its influence to promote 'dirty energies' and 'false solutions' to the climate crisis. It focuses on the environmental and social impacts of the El Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia and the company's lobbying efforts within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

• Anglo American is a primary shareholder in El Cerrejón, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines located in La Guajira, Colombia. The mine's operations have led to severe social and environmental conflicts, including the privatization and contamination of territories belonging to indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and peasant communities.
• The El Cerrejón mine consumes approximately 17 million liters of water per day, contrasting sharply with the average resident of Alta Guajira who consumes only 0.7 liters per day. This appropriation of water sources, combined with coal dust pollution, has caused respiratory and intestinal diseases in local populations.
• Anglo American utilizes Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies as 'greenwashing' to mask structural socio-environmental conflicts. These include funding biodiversity offsets through NGOs like WWF and Conservation International, and providing public services like health and education to fill gaps left by the state, which the report claims effectively privatizes public policy.
• The company leverages a complex network of business associations and lobbying groups to influence climate policy and ensure the continuity of its coal business. These entities include EUROMINES, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
• Anglo American has exerted significant influence over the UNFCCC, particularly during COP 17 in South Africa and COP 19. The report highlights that the company's leadership role in COP 17 helped promote 'false solutions' such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the expansion of carbon trading.
• The report identifies 'false solutions' as policies that create business opportunities for the financial sector and corporations instead of reducing emissions at the source. Examples cited include REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), the latter of which provided Anglo American with free allocations estimated at 43 million euros.

APA

Ortiz, L., Sabido, P., Tansey, R., Forero, L. F., Urrea, D., & Shaw, S. (2014). El cabildeo de Anglo American a favor de energías sucias y falsas soluciones para el clima. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/18-foei-corporate-capture-report-esp-lr.pdf

Chicago

Ortiz, Lúcia, Pascoe Sabido, Rachel Tansey, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Danilo Urrea, and Sara Shaw. El cabildeo de Anglo American a favor de energías sucias y falsas soluciones para el clima. Friends of the Earth International, 2014. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/18-foei-corporate-capture-report-esp-lr.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ortiz2014cabildeo, author = {Ortiz, Lúcia and Sabido, Pascoe and Tansey, Rachel and Forero, Lyda Fernanda and Urrea, Danilo and Shaw, Sara}, title = {{El cabildeo de Anglo American a favor de energías sucias y falsas soluciones para el clima}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2014}, month = nov, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/18-foei-corporate-capture-report-esp-lr.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }