{"id":64206,"date":"2017-11-04T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=64206"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:14:42","slug":"blockadia-map-reveals-global-rise-of-anti-fossil-fuel-blockades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/blockadia-map-reveals-global-rise-of-anti-fossil-fuel-blockades\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockadia map reveals global rise of anti-fossil fuel blockades"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new interactive map<\/strong> shows the rise of Blockadia<\/em>: the direct-action phenomenon of people putting their bodies in the way of fossil fuel projects.<\/strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a> In the last decade, Blockadia actions started in at least 48 places, compared to only 8 that started in the ten previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Sunday, the \u2018Ende Gel\u00e4nde\u2019 group plans to block Europe\u2019s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses once again: the enormous lignite coal mine near to Bonn. This is just one of 70 cases pictured in the Blockadia Map. In 16 cases, the targeted fossil fuel project was also stopped.<\/p>\n

The map\u2019s release coincides with the Peoples Climate March in Bonn this weekend. World leaders will gather on Monday to discuss the lack of progress on the already agreed goal to limit greenhouse gas emissions so much that the resulting temperature rise remains \u201cwell below 2\u00b0C\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nick Meynen, Environmental Justice Project Officer at the European Environmental Bureau said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blockadia activist have to risk jail or even death for what they do, but in the face of the massive political failure on climate change they think more in terms of what is legitimate than what is legal. They put their safety at risk to protect all of us. Having a scientific community supporting them, for example with the Blockadia Map, means a lot these people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Professor Joan Mart\u00ednez-Alier from ICTA-Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the 1990s, communities and organizations from Ecuador to Nigeria and the Philippines and many other countries, oppose coal, oil or gas extraction and burning not only because of local health and livelihood reasons but also because of the need to keep the “unburnable fuels” in the ground to prevent climate change. Some of the militants have paid with their lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The interactive map is available online now. <\/a><\/p>\n

The Blockadia map shows the global nature of direct actions for climate justice. The map\u2019s researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Lund University (Sweden) and Universidad del Magdalena (Colombia) also found that i<\/strong>ndigenous peoples have been the first and fiercest opponents in most of the contested fossil fuel projects.<\/p>\n

Both the World Meteorological Organisation and the UN\u2019s environmental body raised the alarm this week about the acceleration of greenhouse gas emissions and the associated consequences.<\/p>\n

[1] Blockadia<\/strong> is a term popularised by Naomi Klein after it was used by activists against the Keystone XL Pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands. It describes the \u201croving transnational conflict zone\u201d where \u201cpeople are stepping in where leaders are failing\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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