When Vattenfall and Swedfund divested from a rejuvenation project of rubber trees in 2012, its operator Buchanan Renewables decided to abandon the project leaving communities struggling.
According to the CSO Swedwatch: “Promised development effects never materialized and today local communities still suffer from the human rights impacts, with no remedy in sight.” This course of events suggests that Vattenfall, Swedfund and Buchanan Renewables disengaged from this project in an irresponsible manner.
Read more on this case on the Swedwatch website and in this SOMO, Green Advocates and SwedWatch report
More sources on the case:
Business & Human Rights Research Center post
Accountability Counsel complaint
The New York Times article
SwedWatch report