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[PDF] To Have And Have Not: Resource Governance in the 21st Century
[T]ransparent, sustainable, fair, and just governance of natural resources is a key for peace and sustainable development worldwide... With this Memorandum, the Heinrich Böll Foundation...[wishes] to strengthen civil society positions on questions of natural resource governance... Political demands and recommendations to the G8 [include]...
1. The G8 should call upon the UN Security Council to endorse a definition of conflict resources...
5. ...The G8 should press for a UN agreement on international norms and agreements to level the playing field for extractive companies and improve accountability with respect to human rights...
[refers to Riggs Bank (now part of PNC Financial Services), CNOOC, Petrobras]