Nick Meynen
Nick Meynen is the policy officer for environmental and economic justice at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Europe’s largest network of environmental citizens' organizations. Nick is also an investigative journalist, opinion-maker, and author of "Frontlines: Stories of Global Environmental Justice" (2020) and three other books.
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Views Monday, July 29, 2019 Never-Ending Growth? The most ambitious internationally agreed plan to make this world a better place are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But during their annual review, nobody dared to admit that the SDG that calls for sustained economic growth is fatally flawed, undermining the possibility to achieve the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Chilean Union Leader Found Dead One Day After Anti-Pollution Demo One day after protesting massive chemical pollution, Alejandro Castro was found, hanging. The artisanal fisherman union leader had just pulled off a mass mobilization against acute chemical intoxication. Defending a community against polluters is an increasingly dangerous activity. The number of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 20, 2018 It’s Not Just Drug Dealers That Need to Worry About Inspiration Trump Took From Duterte Killing drug dealers through the courts , as US President Donald Trump has just proposed, is one step closer to the drugs policy in the Philippine—where President Rodrigo Duterte supports a killing spree even outside the court system. But if Duterte inspired Trump more broadly during his recent... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 04, 2017 India’s Authorities Are Drowning 40,000 Families International support for the Narmada Bachao Andolan or NBA movement, who defends the interests of the dam affected people in the Narmada valley, is pouring in. A letter to Prime Minister Modi send on 4 August was signed by civil society organisations from 29 countries asking him to order a... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 28, 2017 How This Earth Activist Risked All and Won Everything Two men coming all the way from the Indian jungle admired the most sacred site of London: St. Paul's Cathedral. They checked the rock quality, deemed it perfect and asked for the London mining authorities. That day, an newspaper-ad showed a demolition crane smashing the St Paul's Cathedral. The... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Shock and Awe, The Chevron Way With pockets deep enough, you can buy justice. That’s what Chevron assumes since they lost a $9.5 billion verdict at the Supreme Court of Ecuador in 2013. But can Chevron justify their mockery of the justice system at the shareholder meeting on Wednesday, May 25th? Some shareholders are gearing up... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 06, 2016 The Epic Battle To Get Justice From Chevron “We’re in front of the International Criminal Court now! We’re just about to get in. I’ll let you know when it’s done.” He hung up, went in and dropped the time bomb in an office. Forty minutes later he called again. “We did it!” The bomb, 50 pages long , had travelled all the way from the polluted... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 22, 2015 Sue for the Climate: Will a Dutch Court Kickstart a Wave of Action? In 2009, The Guardian published a cartoon depicting a tormented old man with a haggard-looking girl sitting on his lap, who asks him: “Grandpa, what did you do in the war against climate change?” One dad can reply, “Well, honey, I was the first to sue my government for it.” That might just qualify... Read more |