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The report by Mighty Earth characterizes Cargill as a major contributor to global deforestation, climate change, and human rights violations. It details the company's role in destroying the Amazon and Gran Chaco ecosystems for soy production, the use of child labor in West African cocoa production, and significant pollution of air and water in the United States. The document highlights a pattern of 'misleading' corporate pledges by CEO David MacLennan, noting that the company often resists expanding sustainability protections to new regions like the Brazilian Cerrado. It specifically criticizes major clients such as Ahold Delhaize, McDonald's, and Sysco for continuing to support Cargill despite their own public sustainability commitments.

The report by Mighty Earth accuses Cargill of being a primary driver of global deforestation, child labor, and pollution, highlighting a pattern of 'deception and destruction'. It details the company's role in destroying the Amazon, the Cerrado, and the Gran Chaco for soy production, as well as its involvement in illegal cocoa sourcing and palm oil production linked to habitat loss and human rights violations. The document argues that Cargill's public commitments to sustainability are routinely ignored and calls on major clients like McDonald's and Ahold Delhaize to switch to more responsible suppliers.

The report by Mighty Earth characterizes Cargill as a major contributor to global environmental and human rights crises. It details the company's role in the deforestation of the Amazon, Cerrado, and Gran Chaco for soy production, as well as illegal deforestation in West African national parks for cocoa. The document alleges systemic failures in Cargill's sustainability promises, citing continued use of child slave labor in cocoa harvests and severe water and air pollution in the United States. It concludes that corporate customers like McDonald's and Ahold Delhaize are complicit by continuing to source from Cargill despite the company's documented record of deception and ecological damage.

The community audit of the Sendou coal-fired power plant in Bargny, Senegal, reveals significant violations of environmental and human rights. Key findings include the discharge of hydrocarbon-contaminated wastewater into Lake Khouloup, air pollution from unconfined coal and ash piles, and the expropriation of land previously designated for victims of coastal erosion without just compensation. The report also highlights the disruption of local economic activities, specifically fish processing at Khelcom, and the restriction of access to a sacred baobab tree, violating religious freedoms.

The report details extensive environmental degradation and human rights violations linked to the operations of Industries Chimiques du Sénégal (ICS). Key findings include severe air pollution from toxic gas leaks (SO2, SO3, and fluorides) causing crop necrosis and respiratory illnesses, soil contamination with phosphorus and cadmium, and the discharge of untreated fluosilicic acid into the sea at Weuta beach. The audit also highlights the loss of agricultural livelihoods due to the expanding mining front, inadequate compensation for land expropriation, and a systemic lack of transparency regarding environmental impact assessments. It recommends that ICS improve its waste management and that the Senegalese state revise expropriation rules and sanction harmful mining practices.

The report documents extensive environmental pollution, health crises, and social disruptions caused by Industries Chimiques du Sénégal (ICS) in the Tivaouane department. Key findings include severe air, soil, and water contamination, resulting in crop failure, respiratory and digestive illnesses, and the displacement of entire villages. The audit highlights a lack of transparency regarding environmental impact studies and inadequate compensation for land expropriation, calling for urgent technical reforms and state intervention to protect local communities.

The Lamu County Bio-Cultural Community Protocol (BCP) is a communal document created by the Bajun, Swahili, Sanye, Aweer, and Orma communities to protect their ancestral lands and nature-based livelihoods. It details the diverse economic niches of these groups—including fishing, pastoralism, and hunting-gathering—and the traditional conservation methods they employ. The document strongly opposes the LAPSSET project and the Amu Power coal plant, citing a lack of free, prior, and informed consent, threats to biodiversity, and the risk of cultural erasure. It concludes by demanding legal recognition of community land rights and the adoption of renewable energy alternatives.

This document is a set of licensing conditions issued by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) on September 7, 2016, for the construction and operation of a 1050MW coal-fired power plant in Kwasasi, Lamu County, developed by Amu Power Company Limited.

The report assesses how communities in South Africa have used litigation, protest, and media coverage to combat the impacts of coal and platinum mining. It identifies significant failures in the regulatory governance of the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), noting a 'compliance and enforcement deficit' caused by legislative loopholes and conflicts of interest. While litigation is the most frequent strategy, the report argues that a multi-pronged approach combining legal action with community mobilisation is most effective. It highlights severe impacts including water pollution, displacement, and health crises like silicosis and black lung disease.

The report details the findings of a 16-month community environmental audit in Penhalonga, Zimbabwe, conducted between 2017 and 2018. It identifies significant legal and environmental violations by two gold mining companies: Redwing Mine, which is linked to air pollution from tailings dumps, water pollution from sewage and chemical runoff, and labor rights violations; and DTZ-OZGEO, which caused extensive degradation of the Mutare River, land abandonment, and cultural desecration. The document also notes a lack of transparency regarding new diamond mining prospects by the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) and proposes specific environmental and social remedies.

The report challenges the narrative of fossil gas as a low-carbon transition fuel, detailing its high methane leakage rates and the severe ecological and health risks associated with hydraulic fracturing. It highlights that methane's high warming potential can make gas more harmful to the climate than coal if leakage exceeds 4%. Additionally, the document outlines the health consequences of gas combustion, including respiratory illnesses and millions of annual deaths globally, and calls for financial institutions to cease all support for gas expansion.

The report details the environmental and health risks of fossil gas, highlighting that methane leaks can make gas more harmful to the climate than coal. It specifically critiques shale gas for its high water consumption, chemical contamination, and carcinogenic emissions, while noting that gas combustion contributes to millions of deaths globally through air pollution. Reclaim Finance recommends that financial institutions cease all support for fossil gas expansion.

The document outlines the technical framework for RMI's State Clean Energy Eco graphics, which project the scale of energy transformation required for the US to reach net zero emissions by 2050. It details the use of the Princeton Net Zero America (NZA) project as the primary data source, supplemented by the Energy Policy Simulator (EPS), NREL Cambium scenarios, and population projections. The methodology covers specific metrics across electricity, industry, transportation, buildings, and human impact, including a detailed approach for downscaling potential federal investments from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to the state level. To account for uncertainty in 2050 projections, metrics are generally rounded to one significant figure.

The 'Deliver Electric Delhi' pilot is a collaboration between RMI, the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi (DDC), and 36 private sector partners to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) for final-mile delivery. The initiative addresses the high pollution and carbon emissions caused by urban freight, which accounts for 45% of vehicular NOx pollution in Delhi. The pilot follows a three-phase approach—design, execution, and documentation—to gather data on total cost of ownership (TCO), vehicle productivity, and charging patterns. This data is intended to reduce risks for EV owners and financiers and inform public policy and infrastructure planning.

The document is a template for an Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) designed for clean energy mini-grids, particularly solar hybrid systems. It outlines the purpose of an ESMP as a tool to eliminate or reduce adverse risks during a project's life cycle, from construction to decommissioning. The guide details specific environmental and social risks associated with key components—such as PV panels, battery banks, and fuel generators—and provides corresponding mitigation and monitoring measures. It also includes a matrix of minimum environmental and social parameters (indicators) that proponents should track across different project phases.

The 'Air Aware' youth statement highlights the severe impact of air pollution on young people in Johannesburg, particularly in low-income areas like Alexandra, Soweto, and Diepsloot. It identifies waste burning, household fuel use, transport emissions, and industrial pollution as primary sources of contamination that lead to respiratory illnesses and cardiovascular strain. The document demands a transition toward health-centered air quality management, reliable waste collection to end illegal burning, clean mobility infrastructure, and the formal inclusion of youth in environmental governance to achieve a 'Vision 2030' of cleaner skies and green jobs.

The document highlights Southeast Asia as the only region with a growing share of coal-fired power, with 49GW of new coal plants in the pipeline. It argues that transitioning to renewable energy is a 'smart investment' that can reduce annual fossil fuel import bills from 300 to 100 million USD by 2040 and create over 2.2 million jobs. The text outlines five steps for a competitive zero carbon economy: committing to carbon neutrality, prioritizing energy efficiency, redirecting capital flows, providing exit strategies for high-carbon assets, and building new constituencies for the clean economy.

The document details limitations in the IBC module's use of linear GEOS-Chem Adjoint coefficients for PM2.5 and ozone, which fail to account for non-linear atmospheric chemical reactions. It also notes that health and crop impact assessments rely on concentration-response functions derived from North American and European data, which may not be universally applicable or accurate at very high ozone concentrations.

The Impact Benefits Calculator (IBC) is a tool integrated into LEAP that translates emissions scenarios into estimates of health and climate impacts. It utilizes parameterized results from the GEOS-Chem Adjoint model and standard concentration-response functions to calculate population-weighted PM2.5 concentrations and associated premature mortality. The tool is designed to be accessible to planners in the developing world, reducing complex modeling that previously required supercomputers to calculations that run in seconds. It currently supports 161 countries and analyzes pollutants including CO2, methane, black carbon, and nitrogen oxides.

This report, published by the Stockholm Environment Institute in November 2009, presents a calculation and simulation model for the social costs of land transport in Estonia. It estimates the total external costs for 2007, breaks them down by cost type and vehicle category, and analyzes the extent to which these costs are internalized through existing taxes and fees.