AITEC Press (February 28, 2011) Given the depletion of natural resources and international competition increasingly fierce for control initiatives on the future and the conditions for the extraction of natural resources is increasing. In point of clash and deliver a schedule reveals the impossibility of continuing predation unlimited natural resources to satisfy consumption of the richest populations, particularly in Europe.
While Transparency Initiative Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) will hold its bi-annual global conference on 2 and 3 March in Paris to advance "the natural resource governance and transparency" [a ] lobbies European mining and extractive industries, together with representatives of the trade policy of the European Union, met on Tuesday 1 March in Brussels to "set a roadmap for EU deal "Threats to the global race raw materials [2 ].
Having already strongly influenced the content of the EU strategy on raw materials adopted in 2008 [3 ] companies and European multinational companies will present their new requirements to keep their hands on European policy in this area Following the publication by the European Commission to revise this strategy February 2, 2011. Originally titled
" Initiative on raw " , this strategy aimed solely ensure that European companies unprecedented access and cheap raw materials , whatever the social and environmental price for the South. Through this strategy, the EU promotes a further liberalization of commodity markets by forcing the South to abandon any export tax or regulate foreign investment . Thus, it encloses the countries and peoples of the South in the role of providers of raw materials, it denies them the sovereign right to control access to their resources and perpetuates a system of impunity for European investors, leaving local people live in poverty and devastated ecosystems [ 4].
Good intentions within the framework of the EITI are undermined by concrete policies to monopolize resources that are not compatible with the sovereignty of countries and peoples over their own natural resources. This strategy to meet our model of consumption is widening the groove of ecological and social impasse.
On Tuesday 1st March at the opening of the conference Brussels, European associations and NGOs intend to denounce the influence of industrial lobbies and mining in the commercial adoption of these policies unsustainable and unacceptable. Rather than being a lackey of the interests of European companies, the EU should work towards a sustainable and equitable management of natural resources globally, which implies first to adopt an effective policy for reducing consumption of raw materials in Europe.
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