Brazilian and New Zealand Indigenous Win Against Companies Wrecking Climate

 

March 1, 2024 Resistance Against Corporate Power Māori Activist Wins Right to Sue Major New Zealand Polluters   Climate activist Mike Smith, a Māori elder in Aotearoa (New Zealand), sued seven of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the country to publicly admit that they caused a public nuisance and dramatically scale back emissions to reach net zero by 2050. In February 2024, New Zealand’s Supreme Court ruled that his lawsuit should be examined under Indigenous customary laws.   HD Hyundai Stops Sales of Diggers Used for Gold Mining in the Amazon   Investigations by Greenpeace and Repórter Brasil found that close to half of mechanized diggers used for illegal gold mining in the Amazon are manufactured by HD Hyundai Construction Equipment. After extensive pressure from Indigenous and environmental activists, the company agreed to stop selling excavators used for illegal gold mining in Amazonas, Pará and Roraima states in Brazil.   These were our 78th & 79th spotlights of successful resistance against corporate power! Please don’t hesitate to let us know of any such movements happening in your community!    Thanks for helping hold corporations accountable!   The CorpWatch Team Pratap in London, Paula in Brasilia, Elena in Calgary and Tyler in Santa Barbara. Donate to CorpWatch Gulliver Spotlight Gulliver is an activist platform that allows users to instantly find details of corporate crimes anywhere in the world - and how communities are organizing to hold these companies accountable.   Gulliver Profile on Nestlé   Nestlé is a multinational processed foods company that manufactures products like KitKat, Nespresso and Perrier. In 2021, it acknowledged that 60 percent of its food portfolio was unhealthy. It has been sued in the U.S for buying cocoa from suppliers in West Africa linked to child and slave labor.  (The case was rejected for lack of jurisdiction.) The company came under fire in the 1970’s for aggressively marketing infant formula to mothers in the Global South, that was linked to hundreds of thousands of infant deaths. This is because baby formula is only safe if it is prepared with clean water, stored in sterilized bottles and refrigerated, but many of the mothers pressured into using the formula did not have the financial resources to do so. Find more critical information on the company here.   Go to Gulliver Tweet

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