The World Bank and 'greenwash' in South Africa
date created: 00-00-2003
Language: English
Region: Africa
Contact email: heidi@carbontradewatch.org, ell@obin.org
Creator: H Bachram, E Southern, J Chadwick
Distributor: Fenceline Films
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0
Website contact: http://clearerchannel.org/fenceline
More Information: http://www.tni.org/ctw/
This is the story of Sajida Khan, a South African woman with a hazardous dumpsite on her doorstep. Her neighbours are dying one by one, while the dump leaks gases and toxins into her air, water and earth. Meanwhile, the World Bank calls the dump a " world class example of an environmental project. " How can this be? This dramatic gap between the local community and the World Bank is because of the new Carbon Emissions Trading scheme in the Kyoto Protocol. Filmed during the UN World Summit on Sustainable Devlopment in Johannesburg 2002, and features protests by collalitions of local and international groups.
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Green Gold screenings:
Green Gold will be screened at the bi - annual environmental film festival titled "Quotes from the Earth" in New Delhi, India, 3rd to 5th November, 2006. The festival is organised by the NGO Toxics Link, and aims to 'create a debate and rhetoric on all environmental issues in an effort to reach the youth, civil society at large as well as media.'
Resources:
Carbon Trade Watch
The Corner House
Sinks Watch