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Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North America and Complicit Financial Institutions

Report addresses the disproportionate gender and racial health and safety impacts and issues of fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure in the United States and Canada.

Description

A report that addresses the disproportionate gender and race-specific health and safety impacts as well as human and Indigenous rights issues of fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure in the United States and selected parts of Canada— interlocking issues that have been sorely neglected in the discourse regarding fossil fuel extraction. The report spotlights the role that a specific set of financial institutions, including banks, asset managers, and insurance companies, play in preserving and perpetuating negative gender and racial impacts through focusing on eight case studies in North America.

Source

https://www.wecaninternational.org/2021-divestment-report

Language

English

Collections

Ecofeminism and Environment Collection

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