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In an era when the race for access to natural resources deeply affects social justice issues, the proposal to leave the oil in the Yasuní Park in Ecuador underground represents an innovative initiative. The Yasuní Park, a UNESCO world biosphere reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazonia, is a hotspot of biological and ethnic diversity whose reproduction capacities have been increasingly jeopardized in recent decades, particularly because of oil extraction activities. The Yasuní-ITT initiative proposes to leave over 846 million barrels of oil in the ground, not only to protect forest biodiversity, but also in order to foster innovative strategies of energy production and consumption, to face climate change, and to advance an alternative model to the carbon emissions market.
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Certomà, C., Greyl, L. (2012). Nonextractive Policies as a Path to Environmental Justice? The Case of the Yasuní Park in Ecuador. In: Haarstad, H. (eds) New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137073723_10
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