Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year! Although the ground is still green (by green, I mean yellowish-brown), for better or for worse. Judging from my own experience in the last week, the only relevant resource extraction was shovelling turkey onto my plate. But now that that's over and we're down to leftovers, we can get back to the environment!
For starters, here are some general definitions that will come in handy:
Resource Extraction is a blanket term that refers not only to the collection of natural resources, but also to the location and distribution of the same. So when you're considering accountability, you're looking not only at the processes required to acquire resources, such as mining and logging, but also associated actions both before and after the acquisition process.
There are a lot of issues surrounding resource extraction, and it is important to keep the focus on environmental accountability. When talking about accountability, it is important to think in very concrete and specific terms. It's easy to point fingers and say that some nation or government is to blame, but it's a lot harder to objectively monitor environmental impacts and hold nations accountable. Food for thought (organic, of course).
Cheers,
UNEP Staff
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