Community Benefit Sharing and Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen Projects: Policy Guidance for Governments

The massive and rapid expansion of renewable energy is needed to limit global warming, so its social acceptance must be assured. While not a silver bullet, well-designed and governed benefit-sharing arrangements can lead to beneficial outcomes in ways that speak to affected communities’ needs and interests. In partnership with the Green Hydrogen Organization and to support the efforts of the Planning for Climate Commission, this report offers high-level guidance to governments that seek to ramp up the development of renewable energy projects, including power generation and grid infrastructure. The report emphasizes that governments need a strong and coherent policy approach addressing the rights, expectations, and perspectives of project-affected communities. Direct community benefits can be vital in ensuring communities are treated fairly, while simultaneously building support that can bolster project development. Examples of ways in which governments can ensure the fair treatment and integration of project-affected communities include: Encouraging and ideally mandating community consultation or co-design of benefit-sharing arrangements. Ensuring that communities have access to effective and accessible grievance mechanisms that empower them to bring forward complaints regarding the operation of community benefit-sharing arrangements. Enabling shared community ownership, where communities receive a fair distribution of benefits from renewables projects if the community is adequately supported in their decision to enter into it, and in their ongoing efforts to manage the projects. Designing benefit-sharing arrangements in a way that considers what happens when a renewable project reaches the end of its initial lifespan

Community Benefit Sharing and Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen Projects: Policy Guidance for Governments

This report offers high-level guidance to governments that want to mandate or encourage the use of benefit-sharing arrangements in connection with renewable energy projects, including power and hydrogen generation and grid infrastructure. In the right circumstances, and if appropriately designed and governed, benefit-sharing arrangements can be a useful mechanism to ensure that project-affected communities experience positive outcomes from those projects. Such direct community benefits can play an important role in ensuring communities are treated fairly, while also building local support that can expedite project development

Hear no evil : forced labor and corporate responsibility in Eritrea's mining sector

Human Rights Watch. [Chris Albin-Lackey

Circular Economy in the Industrial Goods Sector: A Framework for Understanding Private Sector Progress and Innovation

A “circular economy” is an economic system that creates a closed loop, allowing for the reuse of resources and minimization of waste. How are circularity principles implemented in the business practices of private companies? “Circular Economy in the Industrial Goods Sector: A Framework for Understanding Private Sector Progress And Innovation” analyzes a diverse cross-section of industrial goods companies and develops a five pillar framework to characterize what good circularity practices look like in practice. This report was commissioned by Stewart Investors, a long-term investor that looks to drive sustainable development progress through its portfolio. Stewart Investors\u27 approach to stewardship includes engagement with portfolio companies on key issues of mutual interest around sustainability performance. The report provides a framework to assess the circular economy performance of industrial goods companies broadly, and was also used to support a separate assessment of the circular economy performance of several companies across Stewart Investors\u27 portfolio

Circular Economy in the Industrial Goods Sector: A Framework for Understanding Private Sector Progress and Innovation

A “circular economy” is an economic system that creates a closed loop, allowing for the reuse of resources and minimization of waste. How are circularity principles implemented in the business practices of private companies? “Circular Economy in the Industrial Goods Sector: A Framework for Understanding Private Sector Progress And Innovation” analyzes a diverse cross-section of industrial goods companies and develops a five pillar framework to characterize what good circularity practices look like in practice. This report was commissioned by Stewart Investors, a long-term investor that looks to drive sustainable development progress through its portfolio. Stewart Investors' approach to stewardship includes engagement with portfolio companies on key issues of mutual interest around sustainability performance. The report provides a framework to assess the circular economy performance of industrial goods companies broadly, and was also used to support a separate assessment of the circular economy performance of several companies across Stewart Investors' portfolio

Community Benefit Sharing and Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen Projects: Policy Guidance for Governments

The massive and rapid expansion of renewable energy is needed to limit global warming, so its social acceptance must be assured. While not a silver bullet, well-designed and governed benefit-sharing arrangements can lead to beneficial outcomes in ways that speak to affected communities’ needs and interests. In partnership with the Green Hydrogen Organization and to support the efforts of the Planning for Climate Commission, this report offers high-level guidance to governments that seek to ramp up the development of renewable energy projects, including power generation and grid infrastructure. The report emphasizes that governments need a strong and coherent policy approach addressing the rights, expectations, and perspectives of project-affected communities. Direct community benefits can be vital in ensuring communities are treated fairly, while simultaneously building support that can bolster project development. Examples of ways in which governments can ensure the fair treatment and integration of project-affected communities include: Encouraging and ideally mandating community consultation or co-design of benefit-sharing arrangements. Ensuring that communities have access to effective and accessible grievance mechanisms that empower them to bring forward complaints regarding the operation of community benefit-sharing arrangements. Enabling shared community ownership, where communities receive a fair distribution of benefits from renewables projects if the community is adequately supported in their decision to enter into it, and in their ongoing efforts to manage the projects. Designing benefit-sharing arrangements in a way that considers what happens when a renewable project reaches the end of its initial lifespan

A Dangerous Method: How Mali Lost Control of the North, and Learned to Stop Worrying

This article analyses changes and failures in the northern Mali system of security governance, taking into account the period running from the declaration of the Malian Third Republic (1992) to the present. Considering northern Mali as an area of limited statehood, the article develops a comparative diachronic analysis, distinguishing between three phases, namely Militiarisation (1992–2002), Fragmentation (2002–2012) and Multiplication (2013–ongoing). For every phase the focus is on (1) the mechanisms of coordination among actors, (2) the distribution of coercive capacities and ruling power and (3) the forms of authority. Unintended consequences and collective problems are highlighted, in order to understand the current situation of insecurity in the area