Interactive toolkit · Corporate accountability
Where to press the company?
A practical navigator for communities facing corporate environmental harm: prevention, evidence, due diligence, finance, public claims and Indigenous rights / FPIC.
Analysis
Who Pays When the Mine Closes?
Closure liabilities, abandoned sites, and the arithmetic of bankruptcy — from Magadan to the Yukon.
Analysis
Who Gets to Decide? Critical Minerals Governance Between Permanent Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
The UN’s new critical-minerals architecture seeks to reconcile state sovereignty, international cooperation and Indigenous rights. Its first high-level meeting exposed the question the framework has yet to answer: what happens when they produce different decisions about the same mine?
Analysis
Resource Nationalism Has Four Mechanisms — and One Blind Spot
A field guide to four mechanisms of resource nationalism — and the blind spot that appears when state control over rent is mistaken for community consent.
Analysis
Public Money for Mining
A practical guide for communities and CSOs: who finances mining, what it means for you, and where to file a complaint.
Op-Ed
The Energy Transition Has Lost Its Moral Exemption
Aluki Kotierk’s presentation of the 2026 UNPFII report to ECOSOC marks an important shift. Critical-mineral extraction is no longer a peripheral Indigenous rights concern. But recognition must now be translated into project approval, finance and corporate liability.
Analysis
Critical Mineral Security Has a Blind Spot
The IEA’s Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026 treats mineral security as industrial statecraft. Its blind spot is relationship risk with Indigenous Peoples.
Analysis
When the Green Transition Goes to Court
Climate litigation is becoming a permanent feature of climate-risk governance. But the next wave of disputes will also be about critical minerals, carbon markets, just transition and Indigenous rights.
Analysis
Beyond Gerrymandering: Can District Lines Correct Underrepresentation?
The same territory, the same population, the same votes — and different compositions of the representative body.
Analysis
No Consent, No Due Diligence
The UN Working Group’s 2026 guidance moves FPIC from consultation language into the operating system of business and human rights.
Op-Ed
The Right to Say No Is Not a Delay
If Indigenous Peoples cannot withhold consent, the green transition is not rights-respecting. It is only better narrated.
Analysis
When One Third of the Country Has No Legal Subject
What the new Russian Supreme Court review reveals about Indigenous territories.
Analysis
The Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Is Becoming an Operating System
Santa Marta did not produce a treaty. It produced something quieter and potentially more consequential: a governance architecture for the next phase of climate politics.
Analysis
Critical Minerals Are Now a UNPFII Issue
What the 2026 UNPFII report means for mining, FPIC, Indigenous health and transition finance.
Analysis
The Green Transition’s Accountability Gap: Russian Mining Companies in the 2026 Transition Minerals Tracker
What the 2026 Transition Minerals Tracker reveals about Russian mining companies, Indigenous rights and the limits of public accountability.
Analysis
What Is Cultural Loss Worth? The Yindjibarndi v Fortescue Decision and the Limits of Compensation
The Yindjibarndi v Fortescue decision shows why courts can recognise cultural loss while still failing to account for the economics of extraction.
Analysis
Indigenous Advisory Parliaments and Climate Justice
From institutional decoration to verification: how Indigenous representative bodies could become binding institutions in climate governance.
Editor's note
Safety and accountability only seem expensive if you aren't counting the full cost.
A note on extractive industries, underpriced risk, and the communities asked to absorb consequences they did not choose.
Analysis
Climate Obligations, Indigenous Rights, and Russia’s Vote at the UN General Assembly
What Russia’s vote against the UN General Assembly resolution on the ICJ climate advisory opinion reveals about climate obligations, human rights and Indigenous participation.