https://www.disastertrade.org/journal daily 0.75 2021-03-18 https://www.disastertrade.org/journal/constructing-disaster-the-international-brick-trade-carbon-emissions-and-climate-change-impacts monthly 0.5 2021-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1616038082322-6041G5GVQQTUKMUS89O6/WhatsApp%252BImage%252B2021-02-19%252Bat%252B16.49.38%252B%2525283%252529.jpg Journal - Constructing Disaster: The International Brick Trade, Carbon Emissions and Climate Change Impacts Brick smoke billows over former rice fields in Bangladesh. Photo: Tamim Billah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1616038221980-NT78E9V9RS0R80IP33CZ/WhatsApp+Image+2021-02-19+at+16.48.28.jpeg Journal - Constructing Disaster: The International Brick Trade, Carbon Emissions and Climate Change Impacts Young brick workers shovel brick ash in Bangladesh. 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The Disaster Trade Investigates the Environmental Cost of your Morning Cuppa https://www.disastertrade.org/journal/think-youre-well-travelled-youve-got-nothing-on-your-shirtstrong monthly 0.5 2020-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1600930536243-UZC7CJQKB3F1NK7HFB5T/Passport+2.png Journal - Think you’re Well Travelled? You’ve got Nothing on your Shirt. https://www.disastertrade.org/journal/strongclothing-cambodias-carbon-footprint-drought-garments-and-the-disaster-of-cambodias-pivot-to-coalstrong monthly 0.5 2020-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1597395618571-4ISV7VSNY2ZMUPLW7ZHC/Smoking+coal.jpg Journal - Clothing Cambodia’s Carbon Footprint: Drought, Garments and the Disaster of Cambodia’s Pivot to Coal https://www.disastertrade.org/journal/blog-post-title-one-3y2ba-zf9jw-jhsam-bad35 monthly 0.5 2020-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1593167001130-7TN569J2HCHEE4Q4UMMK/015-blood_sugar.jpg Journal - The Disaster Trade: an Overview A worker at a Cambodian plantation supplying a major British sugar company https://www.disastertrade.org/journal/blog-post-title-one-3y2ba-zf9jw-jhsam monthly 0.5 2020-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1594647274124-30ASMX257CI591XA0UNF/Laurie+-+BBC+Screenshot.png Journal - Meet the Team: A Q&A on Disasters, Climate Change and Trade - Dr Laurie Parsons As the cultural optimism of the 1990s has given way to the instability and insecurity of the early 21st century, the world finds itself at a troubling moment. Over three decades of neoliberal globalisation have contributed to the redirection of manufacturing from the global North to the global South, leaving us structurally dependent on international economic systems. Yet our political systems remain stubbornly national, engendering a fundamental shift in the balance of power between politics and economy and leaving us ill-equipped to scrutinise the impact of global processes like trade on the environments in which they occur. The hidden impacts of trade on the environment is just one aspect of this wider picture, but one we hope to draw attention to through this project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1594646414867-T4C7Q2IAND5LNXTGR75C/Ricardo+-+picture.jpg Journal - Meet the Team: A Q&A on Disasters, Climate Change and Trade - Dr Ricardo Safra De Campos The contemporary world is highly mobile. The flow of people, goods, commodities and capital is a recurrent feature in the lives of people worldwide with international trade being an ever-present feature of world economies. However, much less attention is given about the trade’s role in overall climate change and in greenhouse gas emissions specifically. To change this we need to be able to establish the carbon footprint involved in the production-chain of goods while at the same time developing strategies to trace the emissions involved in the transportation of such goods as part of import-export commercial relations between trade partners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1594646588123-4ZPAW8QNRX5IJ10D4U7W/Alice+Moncaster+-+photo.png Journal - Meet the Team: A Q&A on Disasters, Climate Change and Trade - Dr Alice Moncaster The construction industry is notoriously difficult to change, being inherently fragmented, with low profit margins and associated long-term skills shortages. EU and international standards for measuring the environmental impacts of construction materials have been published since 2011, but only within the last few months has the construction industry started to talk more widely about this, particularly following the report from the World Green Building Council 'Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront' (2019). Some construction products, particularly from parts of Europe, now produce Environment Product Declarations (EPD) which state their environmental impacts including Global Warming Potential (GWP) or 'carbon'. However most construction materials and products are still manufactured without any such statements. In turn, very few individual building projects measure their total embodied carbon, and so there has been little encouragement of manufacturers to produce EPD. Within construction, therefore, until recently there have been very few drivers to understanding the global warming impact from domestic, let alone imported, materials. This is now changing, with the professional institutions such as RICS and RIBA taking the lead on encouraging measurement of embodied impacts. It is crucial that international trade is not excluded from this new move, and that the global warming and wider social and environmental impacts of all construction products are identified and minimised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1594646873472-Z58HUVC45VC4FWPF8671/Luis+Scungio.png Journal - Meet the Team: A Q&A on Disasters, Climate Change and Trade - Mr Luis Scungio Nowadays, global trade is still at the margin of the international debate on how to combat climate change, partially because of the idea that all countries, including those in the global south, should equally be able to develop plans aimed to effectively reduce their shares of carbon emissions. Meanwhile, polluting industries have moved their productive capacities to developing nations where deregulated institutional landscapes, weak governance and cheap labor offer favorable conditions to unload the human and environmental “externalities” of unsustainable ways of production, whereas global consumption of goods is concentrated in advanced economies with stronger institutional frameworks. Policy-makers need to address both the social and environmental costs suffered at local level and associated climate change impacts affecting the whole planet with new ways of measuring countries’ carbon emissions, so that loopholes created by international trade are captured by consumption-based approaches to national climate change commitments and regulations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1594714544924-YK6F26APTF542UNYUNLN/Tasneem.jpg Journal - Meet the Team: A Q&A on Disasters, Climate Change and Trade - Professor Tasneem Siddiqui Scientists tell us that the most profoundly damaging impact of climate change in Bangladesh will take form in floods, salinity intrusion and droughts, all of which will drastically affect crop productivity and food security. Yet Bangladesh is highly dependent on its agro based economy. Around 60% labours is involved with this profession. But over the last two decades the economy turns into rapid industrialization. The transformation of ownership of state-owned industries to private and increasing growth of garment industries and manufacturing goods industries replace the agriculture sector in terms of national income. It is noteworthy that despite this rapid industrialization the country has yet to reach to sustainable economic growth due to poor environmental management. Most of the industries lack a sound waste management system. In most of the cases, wastes are externalized into the air, and river that pollute water, air and land. Moreover, unplanned urbanization and the growth of unhygienic settlement (slum) near adjacent industries pose a serious challenge to the ecosystem. On the other hand, changing livelihood pattern (consumerism) also lead to increasing emission of CO2 and other harmful gases. In the coastal areas, hills are frequently cut down by scrupulous businessmen and forests are in the process of extinction due to the initiation of some unplanned development projects. The combined effect of these acts is treacherous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1594646763868-B4T3VXOF7549LJNGKEGU/Ian+Cook+2.jpg Journal - Meet the Team: A Q&A on Disasters, Climate Change and Trade - Professor Ian Cook International trade and climate change often seem like two different things, with different sets of expertise, conventions and organisations. For me, it was a cult reading for material culture scholars - StefanIe Boge’s 1995 classic ‘The well travelled yoghurt pot: lessons for new fright transport policies and regional production’ - that brought the two together. She calculated the distances that the ingredients of a single pot of strawberry yoghurt, including its packaging materials, had travelled in order to question the environmental impacts of a simple everyday commodity. Internalising these ‘external’ climate change costs as hidden ingredients - she didn’t do that, but that’s how I pictured it - is what this project is aiming to do with the imports we depend on. Where do they come from? How did they get here? 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Brick imports from South Asia to the UK are rapidly increasing, but a combination of carbon intensive production and long distance shipping emissions makes their carbon footprint far greater than domestic bricks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/04c6baab-a767-43b4-9c15-c7189f02d3cb/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%287%29.jpg Gallery Bangladeshi brick workers collect soil to mould bricks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/1cc8fa48-df54-460d-b84c-5caf4b7d9bec/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2828%29.jpg Gallery A brick factory labourer covered in brick dust. The industry is renowned for the difficult and unhealthy conditions brick workers must endure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/6474d95a-227c-4111-b392-aa85d8572f03/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2834%29.jpg Gallery Workers collect fired bricks in a brick factory in Narsingdi, near Dhaka. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/2e038660-d994-4c22-a1e5-cb2fa41abf9e/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2869%29.jpg Gallery A Bangladeshi brick worker rests after a hard day’s work. The brick industry both in South Asia is notoriously unhealthy and physically draining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/23c29ca5-e518-4ffc-9c3f-295536248fd1/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2861%29.jpg Gallery A young brick worker transports bricks near Dhaka. Child labour is commonplace throughout the global brick industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/faf28fcc-ffaf-433a-9429-1e61036e5f07/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2855%29.jpg Gallery A Bangladeshi brick worker passes fires bricks to a colleague in a traditional kiln. The UK imported almost 25 million bricks from South Asia in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/010f1a60-107a-4f3e-b4c9-9d6d5e9da9a4/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2847%29.jpg Gallery Workers collect fired bricks in a brick factory in Narsingdi, near Dhaka. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/0fda8a86-b888-428f-b66c-2e8318b66276/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2836%29.jpg Gallery A worker covered in brick dust. Brick dust is a key source of environmental degradation, reducing agricultural productivity in the vicinity of the kiln. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/948f1230-a1d1-49f7-9219-f1ecc0ccd127/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2858%29.jpg Gallery Brick workers arrange bricks for firing. This traditional system of brick production is largely unchanged for centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/87592d7c-7e49-4327-99f2-f9b59b8842e7/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%2844%29.jpg Gallery Workers stacking unfired bricks. Many workers in the South Asian brick industry are debt bonded, entering the industry as a last resort after crop failure or personal tragedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/2a779803-1031-4dcc-aff5-aa9288230b09/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%288%29.jpg Gallery A brick factory on the outskirts of Dhaka. Brick factories like this generate air pollution and excess heat that are damaging to local people and agriculture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/9056b1f8-2641-412e-9d72-e980ad16176c/Mahmud+Hossain+Opu+%286%29.jpg Gallery Brick workers in a traditional kiln. Brick factories like this generate large amounts of carbon, as well as air pollution and excess heat that are damaging to local people and agriculture, often forcing migration from the local area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/e5dd8030-915e-4272-a33b-55c7ab483733/020-blood_bricks_gabor_dump.jpg Gallery A garment sector dump on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/43ee656c-84c0-40bb-8c81-a906a594dd90/021-blood_bricks_gabor_dump.jpg Gallery A garment sector rubbish dump in Cambodia, seen from above. Many of the brands whose waste ends up here have zero waste to landfill commitments. Yet a lack of independent regulation means that environmental abuses, even on this scale, go unreported. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/a3d4bf2a-ac9c-43c2-a774-7899968ed6d1/014-blood_bricks_gabor_dump.jpg Gallery Waste pickers work at a landfill site for the garment sector in Cambodia. The garment sector is the country’s biggest industry, providing 4% of UK garments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/4bcb6d44-5a03-40c8-ae6e-34cfc391970d/disaster_trade_Cambodia-136.jpg Gallery Workers scale an electricity pylon in Cambodia. After devastating droughts curtailed the country’s sustainable energy plan, a rapid switch to coal power will see an additional 70,000 tons of coal burning added to the annual carbon footprint of UK garment imports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/a17f41f7-ec02-4070-b3cd-57a25bdf810d/disaster_trade_Cambodia-133.jpg Gallery A man fishes near a hydropower dam in Cambodia. Cambodia has recently begun a transition away from renewables and towards a predominantly coal powered grid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/82c6a5ed-f6f4-43d6-8201-68d15166518e/disaster_trade_Cambodia-107.jpg Gallery A deforested landscape in Cambodia. This area was until recently entirely covered by forest, but after two decades of one of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation, little now remains. Despite this, the garment industry continues to source firewood from the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/5f5f57f3-3844-4087-a051-8d8821cdcd36/disaster_trade_Cambodia-069.jpg Gallery Rice farmers near a factory complex in Kampong Speu providing garments to the UK market. Water and air pollution, as well as overuse of water resources, are common problems in the industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/cfeb0997-7cbb-4ec9-95e7-e39ba167a1b5/disaster_trade_Cambodia-065.jpg Gallery A waste burner attached to an exporting garment factory. Waste burning is common practice in the Cambodian garment industry, often being used to generate power for the factory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/c813e7cf-f891-4a36-8128-0bbd799f5cb0/disaster_trade_Cambodia-044.jpg Gallery Smoke rises from a garment factory in Cambodia. Expensive mains electricity means that many garment factories produce power by burning garments or wood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/0e7387e8-65f6-4b38-b6fb-807237a1461e/disaster_trade_Cambodia-043.jpg Gallery A wood depot outside a major exporting garment factory in Cambodia. At full capacity, large factories like this one burn thousands of tons of forest wood every week to generate power for production processes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/3e860117-3ac6-4c27-b5f4-018496ad3f81/11.+Wall+I%2C+photo+2.+012-blood_bricks_Prek_Totain.jpg Gallery Truck drivers unload wood at night in Kandal province. Forest wood harvesting is illegal in Cambodia and has been cracked down on heavily since 2018, yet remains a common source of fuel in the garment and other industries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/90b61dad-3cfc-4370-938b-e95e09f99b8c/051_L.jpg Gallery A tea plantation worker stands in front of his house. The cracks behind him are the result of previous landslides nearby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/24b34156-8c7c-4381-b37d-ca99da0d0b25/050_L.jpg Gallery A worker points out the large cracks in his house. Tea plantation residents fear that their residences have been severely weakened by previous landslides nearby, leaving them vulnerable to collapse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/7a0c4c7d-76c3-49ae-9254-90a73e12fa51/047_L.jpg Gallery The cracked wall of a tea plantation worker’s house. Many houses are now so weakened by landslides that they are impossible to repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/f79a554a-4499-4663-a669-2411cf676b7d/041_L.jpg Gallery A tea plantation worker in the Sri Lankan highlands. Older workers report substantial changes to the climate of the area since their youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/aedd73d3-ebf1-4a0b-8cbf-693afb807d15/037_L.jpg Gallery A tea plantation worker holds a scale for weighing tea. The tea industry is already being hit hard by Sri Lanka’s changing climate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/3d4571c9-77f2-46d6-a312-10427be11a5c/033_L.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/b26150db-59c3-46da-b101-2b4505730b97/027_M.jpg Gallery A tea plantation worker rests after a day of work. Behind her, red mud is revealed after a recent landslip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/2c42f773-76f2-428e-8591-f5088b387d71/026_M.jpg Gallery A woman prepares food in a Sri Lankan tea plantation. As rainfall becomes more intense and less predictable, workers like this are increasingly vulnerable to landslides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/a21350f9-184e-4cd7-a11f-1d49c4ccf262/020_L.jpg Gallery A worker picks tea on a British plantation. As rainfall becomes heavier and more intense under climate change, the frequency of landslides is progressively weakening workers’ residential housing. Many fear the next landslide will be their last. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/adb59999-0539-4c74-9223-d5224a9d5465/012_L.jpg Gallery A woman preparing to pick tea for export to the UK and other markets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/a8eef6ed-44da-4042-bdaf-d8ee7bab9d05/008_L.jpg Gallery Storm clouds gather behind a Sri Lankan tea plantation worker. As climate change increases the frequency of landslides faced by workers, decaying and unmaintained housing threatens to turn these environmental hazards into lethal disasters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/a9ebcf57-f1a8-45ad-9cab-d08a7ccd7864/012_M.jpg Gallery A Sri Lankan tea worker examines a memorial for those lost in a 2014 landslide. Once a rare occurrence, climate change-linked changed to the intensity of rainfall are making them more common and more lethal features of tea plantations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/5a33fe66-3b89-4d1f-8b90-f01de79dac70/004_L.jpg Gallery The aftermath of a landslide at a tea plantation. In the lead up to the lethal Meeriyabedda landslide of 2014, workers reported warning signs to company bosses, but were told to continue work. Workers today live in fear of a similar disaster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede332153d01455ccf35f36/fbe721ac-2c22-42c3-9c29-d06786ec5f87/001_M.jpg Gallery A worker on a British tea plantation. Older workers report substantial changes to the climate of the Sri Lankan highlands, with rainfall now far more irregular and intense. https://www.disastertrade.org/publications daily 0.75 2021-12-16 https://www.disastertrade.org/new-page daily 0.75 2021-11-04