News from OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives Forum on Responsible Mining:

Bantay Kita /PWYP Philippines highlights its crucial work to empower communities to understand & use data for advocacy.

This is how communities can hold #mining companies accountable.

Read their report: pwyp.org/unearthing-tra…

What is missing from the budget = increasing resources for regulators to regulate (not just approve mines), funding to support community engagement, resources for stronger environmental protection, benefit sharing and partnerships, and First Nations rights and heritage protection

Infuriating! Australia's fossil fuel subsidies hit $14.5 billion in 2023-24, up 31% on last year - in new research out today from Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/fossil-fu…

#didyouknow the waters of PNG are once again under threat from greedy DSM companies? Remember Nautilus Minerals? Their licence was scooped up by Deep Sea Mining Finance (DSMF), intent on plundering the ocean for profit. Join us as we delve into why we must #stopdeepseamining

Find out more about lithium and Australia's role as the 3rd largest lithium producer. The IEA expects lithium demand to grow by 40% by 2030. pwyp.org.au/critical-miner…

Today United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched an ambitious High-Level Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals, co-chaired by Amb. Mxakato-Diseko and Ditte Juul Jørgensen (@eu_commission), and including NRGI's @SuneetaJan.

#ClimateAction

More: un.org/en/climatechan…

An important statement was released this week from Indigenous People and the just energy transition conference in New York with 87 representatives from 35 countries. The statement calls for an end to business as usual in mining. iprights.org/images/2024/JT…

Starting soon 4pm WA / 6pm AEST - PWYP and NRGI webinar on How to fight corruption in extractives. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🗓️SAVE THE DATE! #DeepDay is back and we are getting ready to celebrate the wonders of the #DeepSea in 2024!

Mark your calendars and join us for the celebrations! Stay tuned for more on activities and ways to join. #DefendTheDeep

deep-sea-conservation.org/explore/deep-d…

A great review of Australia's critical mineral strategies and funding allocations for new mines in grants and loans and the absence of commitments for environmental protections and First Nations rights to veto or Free Prior Informed Consent. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🔍 Want to tackle corruption in #extractives ? Join a Publish What You Pay & NRGI webinar on 18 April to hear how NRGI's corruption diagnostic tool empowers anticorruption actors. Featuring insights from:

Bantay Kita
Publish What You Pay
Transparency International Zambia
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Register: resourcegovernance.org/events/how-fig…

'The seafloor is not a resource to be relentlessly exploited, but a vulnerable repository of global biodiversity and carbon that needs protecting' theconversation.com/save-our-seabe…

Exciting news! 📢🥳

We're delighted to announce Ketakandriana Rafitoson as the next Executive Director of PWYP🤩

Ke brings vast experience, a passion for justice & an unwavering commitment to the PWYP movement.

Read more⬇️

pwyp.org/ketakandriana-…

Australia collects more money from HECS than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

Thank you to the 10,000+ people who have already signed our petition & everyone supporting our campaign.

Add your name to increase the PRRT:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_p…
#auspol #prrt #ausecon

🚨You can live stream the Africa International Anti-Corruption Conference to join from anywhere in the world 👏🤝⬇️🔗

#anticorruption

Transparency International Transparency International Zambia Ketakandriana Rafitoson

Reminder that many countries have yet to impose targeted sanctions against the #Myanmar military junta despite intensifying atrocity crimes.

Urgent action needed to stop the flow of funds, arms, equipment, technology and jet fuel to the junta bit.ly/3AFvyly

📢Sign the Petition 📢
Stop investors like Clive Palmer from suing our government for billions over climate change policies aftinet.org.au/petition-trade…