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Explore our publications on a wide range of topics, to find the powerful facts, stories and approaches that underpin our work to make the extractive industry more open, accountable and participatory.
Mining Indaba 2024: What We Want
At the 2024 Mining Indaba happening in Cape Town from 5 to 8 February, PWYP members advocate for African leaders to ensure that transition minerals bring genuine prosperity and development of the continent. Any commitment or deal made during those four days and beyond should ensure people and communities’ best interest. Read more: Recommendations […]
Unfinished Business: Contract Transparency in EITI
Oxfam, NRGI and PWYP are excited to share the report Unfinished Business: Contract Transparency in The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, written by Aubrey Menard from Oxfam America and Rob Pitman from NRGI. The report was published at the EITI conference in Senegal in June 2023. Since 2021, EITI implementing countries have been required to disclose the […]
Serious concerns over Azerbaijan hosting COP29 while it continues to detain prominent critic of its corrupt fossil fuel industry
9 December 2023 – Azerbaijan’s abysmal record of cracking down on peaceful civil society – including the continued detention of academic and activist, Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu – raises serious concerns about the country’s suitability to host a global event such as COP29, where building consensus to negotiate the deals the world’s survival requires is imperative, […]
A Partnership of Equals?
A Partnership of Equals? How to strengthen the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Strategic Partnerships The European Union’s (EU) Critical Raw Minerals Act (CRMA) is an important part of the bloc’s attempt to address the challenges of securing sustainable access to Critical Raw Materials (CRM). The aim is to reduce dependency on single third-country suppliers and promote circularity […]
Chevron Deserts the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Remaining Companies Must Step Up
This article was originally published by the Natural Resource Governance Institute on October 17th. International oil, gas and mining companies have a responsibility to adhere to the highest expectations of the transparency and accountability mechanisms in which they participate. The energy transition requires that mining, oil and gas companies embrace transparency—not run away from it. […]
Statement to demand the release of Gubad Ibadoghlu
We, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned about the continued imprisonment of Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu. We demand that the Government of Azerbaijan immediately release Dr. Ibadoghlu, and call on companies and international institutions with links to Azerbaijan to use their leverage to ensure he is treated humanely and released immediately. Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu is a […]
Publish Your Plans
“Publish Your Plans: The Disclosures Needed to Support a Managed Decline of Oil and Gas Production and an Informed Energy Transition” – a new handbook published by PWYP USA provides advocates and activists key information on what oil and gas companies should be disclosing in their energy transition plans. It introduces and clarifies the concepts […]
Sign the Statement for the release of Gubad Ibadoghlu
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is calling for the immediate release of Gubad Ibadoghlu, a prominent economist and a member of PWYP Azerbaijan coalition, who was violently detained on the 29th of July 2023. We have received distressing news that his detention has been extended for another three months, until May 20th. This extension now […]
PWYP 2023 Africa Conference Report
The world needs to slow climate change to prevent catastrophic impacts, and must replace fossil fuels with cleaner energy sources to do it. In June the Africa Conference 2023 was held in Saly, Senegal for three days of relationship-building, reflection, and strategising on how we can tackle this issue and work towards a collaborative and fair […]
Statement on the arrest of Gubad Ibadoghlu
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is deeply concerned by the arrest of Gubad Ibadoghlu, a prominent economist and a member of PWYP Azerbaijan coalition. Gubad Ibadoghlu was arrested on July 23rd in Baku, Azerbaijan on charges of development, acquisition, or sale of large amounts of counterfeit money or securities. On July 24th the court in […]
Study on Transparency in the Energy and Mining Sector in Tunisia
Tunisia has made good progress in transparency in its energy and mining sector, especially since 2016, the year when most oil and gas contracts and their addendums on exploration and prospecting were published. The publication came in implementation of the commitments of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) 2nd National Action Plan, via the energy and […]
The Iraqi Oil and Gas Contracts Guidebook
With the support of Publish What You Pay (PWYP), the Iraqi Alliance for Transparency in Extractive Industries (IATEI) has developed a guidebook on Iraqi oil and gas contracts signed by Iraq with foreign companies over five licensing rounds since 2009. Read the guidebook The significance of these contracts lay in the fact that they govern […]