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It's that time of year. Even as we look ahead to the challenges and opportunities 2023 will bring, we look back on our work from 2022.
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Dear reader,
It's that time of year. Even as we look ahead to the challenges and opportunities 2023 will bring, we look back on our work from 2022.
Here's a round up of some of our most widely-shared and impactful reports from 2022 in case you missed them. As always, we have been inspired by the movements and individuals we have worked with, who have shared their knowledge and commitment.
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Our world is in a state of flux and crisis. The pandemic exposed the deep injustice of our economic and social system. Yet more than 2 years on, the health crisis continues, compounded by spiralling food and energy prices, escalating wars and ever more signs of environmental collapse. How can progressive forces better understand these dynamics and improve our strategies to achieve system change? Watch back the recordings to hear some of the best scholar activists worldwide with a truly internationalist analysis of the state of the world.
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China, the world’s second largest economy, ranks first in inward foreign direct investment, and is the global leader in artificial intelligence and renewable energies. Global capitalism would not survive in its current form without China’s dynamism and pivotal role. Worldwide people are connected to China – as consumers, contractors, business partners and borrowers. With its increased economic and political power, the Chinese state is playing an increasingly assertive global role, looking to consolidate power at home and abroad. These relationships affect people within China and worldwide. This long read introduction is an excellent starting point for activists interested in China
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In 2022, the mammoth ECT began to quake and fall over. A lopsided relic from another time, the ECT was heralded as a means to protect investors in the energy sector but quickly became a vehicle for fossil fuel companies and foreign investors to sue governments for extortionate sums when they took action to protect the climate. You can read a round-up of developments in 2022 along with links to our key publications.
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Banking on data: How the world’s tax havens became the data centres for the digital economy
In this new era of digital capitalism, data is the new raw material fueling the technology industry. This data is becoming increasingly important in terms of value, but above all in strategic terms. This study explores how tax havens have now become the preferred destinations for data storage. It is not a direct or causal relationship, as we shall see, but there is a strong tendency to store this strategic raw material in these havens.
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While most of us probably rarely think about it on a daily basis, the handful of transnational corporations that dominate the mining industry play a key role in providing inputs for goods we use every day – from smartphones to food. Their profits stem from their role in the production of these goods: control of extraction of minerals at the starting point of the vast global supply chains that stretch from Chilean and Congolese mineral landscapes to – in the case of smartphones – our pockets. The International Energy Agency has argued that for the energy transition to take place a massive “scaling up [of] investment in new mining and processing facilities is vital”. For the mining companies that can extract and supply these minerals, this future outlook promises huge prospective profits and consequently, they are currently strategizing as to how to benefit from the rise in demand. But what do these strategies look like and what challenges do they raise for those engaged in struggles with/against mining capital?
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Prohibited Plants: Environmental Justice in Drug Policy
Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and marginalised communities face particular exposure to environmental harms. This holds particularly true for populations in the Global South. The role of illicit drugs in relation to these environmental stresses is an under-explored terrain. Yet, as this report argues, drugs, as well as the policy responses to them, are an environmental issue.
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This report shows that military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone in a way that promotes justice. Every dollar spent on the military not only increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also diverts financial resources, skills and attention away from tackling one of the greatest existential threats humanity has ever experienced.
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Environmental impacts are rarely taken into account in the cannabis regulation debate. The assumption is that legal regulation would automatically reduce the negative environmental consequences of the unregulated illegal market, because authorities would compel the industry to comply with basic environmental standards. Practices in North America and the direction of the emerging regulation debate in Germany and other European countries, however, reveal a disturbing trend towards indoor cannabis cultivation. The high carbon footprint of indoor grow facilities could jeopardize policy aims to reduce energy use and to meet climate goals.
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Conservation finance has become the dominant ideology of most of the world’s biggest environmental NGOs. It is also heavily promoted by the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Union. The basic premise of conservation finance is that saving nature and averting the climate crisis requires enormous funds, but money derived from public and philanthropic grants is woefully insufficient. Proponents argue that the only way to bridge this funding gap is to tap into the trillions of dollars of private capital circulating through global financial markets. To do this, saving nature must be turned into a profit-making endeavour, appealing to what are known as ‘impact investors’.
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In the light of the UN Climate Change Conferences (COP), this report unmasks where the multilateral system of global governance is being reshaped into a multistakeholder system that benefits private corporate capital. Furthermore, it unpacks some of the methods and mechanisms of multistakeholderism.
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Industrial livestock farming is destroying our ecosystems and damaging the climate. But does that mean going vegan is the only way to save the planet? Not all meat and milk is created equal, and traditional communities around the world raise animals in very different ways, with hugely different environmental impacts.
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TNI continued its incisive analysis and reports from Myanmar in 2022.
You can find our latest reports here and the latest commentaries here.
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Thanks for following our work in 2022 and best wishes for the year to come,
The team at the Transnational Institute
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