Hosts Jonathan Kral, Loukina Tille, and Victoria Barros bring you a compelling conversation about the lecture on the complex issue of environmental justice in the business sector with Nnimmo Bassey, 2010 Right Livelihood Laureate. Off the coast of Nigeria, a relentless gas flare has been burning since 2020, casting a haunting light on decades of unregulated industrial activity. Big Oil Corporations, backed by the National Nigerian Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), have been extracting oil with little regulation and poor clean-up practices. As a result, local communities endure regular, uncontrolled oil spills that devastate ecosystems and biodiversity. Environmental justice activist, architect, and poet Nnimmo Bassey has been tirelessly fighting against these damaging practices. Featuring Dr. Nnimmo Bassey, along with experts Dr. Tamaki Ohmura, lecturer for Biodiversity, Environment and Human Society at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies of the University of Zurich, and Ion Karagounis, Economics and Environmental Specialist of WWF Switzerland, they discuss corporate responsibility, the role of regulatory bodies, and our ethical duties as consumers. Learn more about Nnimmo Bassey: https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/nnimmo-bassey/ For more information, you can consult the following links: https://www.sustainability.uzh.ch/en/community/rlc/home.html https://nnimmobassey.africa/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dib8ENuSf0g https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/nigerias-new-government-mustensure-shells-sale-of-its-niger-delta-oil-business-does-not-worsen-human-rights-abuses/ https://commission.europa.eu/business-economy-euro/doing-business-eu/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence_en
