Jika kita gagal menyeimbangkan dampak sosial dari perubahan iklim dengan tindakan iklim yang bertanggung jawab, kita berisiko mengganti satu jenis bahaya dengan yang lain – dan ini akan menjadi bencana baru.
- Associate Professor, Australian National University
For centuries, Pacific Islands have been raided by mining interests with little to show for it. Harnessing their enormous green mineral wealth must be done justly.
If we fail to balance the social impacts of climate change with responsible climate action, we risk substituting one kind of harm for another – and this would be a disaster of another kind.
A new global standard on tailings dams aim to prevent mining disasters like the Brazil dam collapse in 2019 – but there’s more to do.
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