Jeff Shaw, Sierra Club, jeff.shaw@sierraclub.org, +015035513615
Date: Wed., Nov 10, 2021
Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GMT +00:00, United Kingdom Time.
Place: COP26 Coalition, 209 Bath St, Glasgow
GLASGOW -- The disastrous Tata Mundra coal-fired power project in India has devastated the region of Gujarat since its construction in 2011. A press conference tomorrow at COP26 will highlight the community-led struggle and the ongoing legal effort to hold corporate interests accountable.
Tata Mundra was financed by the International Finance Corporation -- the World Bank’s private sector arm. As one of IFC’s most environmentally and socially destructive projects, the project has displaced fishworkers and devastated an environmentally fragile terrain. Even after ten years of engagement with IFC and its accountability mechanism, IFC has failed to provide the community either justice or remedy.
But on February 27, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in a historic 7-1 decision that international organisations like the International Finance Corporation do not enjoy absolute immunity. The legal battle to support those most affected by this environmentally ruinous coal plant continues.
Speakers tomorrow include:
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Cherelle Blazer, Senior Director, Sierra Club's International Climate and Policy Campaign.
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Soumya Dutta, co-convener, Movement for Advancing Understanding on Sustainability And Mutuality (MAUSAM) and former member of the Advisory Board of UN Climate Technology Centre and Network.
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Petra Kjell Wright, Campaigns Manager at Recourse
Contact Information:
Soumya Dutta: soumyadutta.delhi@gmail.com; +91 9213763756
Petra Kjell Wright: petra@re-course.org, +44 7734 942760
Cherelle Blazer: cherelle.blazer@sierraclub.org
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