1. INTRODUCTION. GLOBALIZATION AND EMERGING ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF MULTINATIONAL ENERGY PROJECTS AND Indigenous have become the subject of significant attention within the environmental movement. This article will discuss the emerging notion of environmental human rights of populations. This article will develop the thesis that international law now recognizes environmental human rights as a norm for all and, as such, multinational corporations should include as legitimate stakeholders in negotiations over the utilization of natural resources in developing countries. There are many virtues in globalization. Globalization promises to increase the flow of ideas and technology, raise standards of economic opportunities, raise the level of consumer welfare and dissipate hostilities across borders by joining nations together in a spirit of cooperation over common goals. Globalization requires U.S. multinational corporations to establish comprehensive approaches to global ethics. One of the common criticisms of globalization is the hegemony imposed by multinational corporations in the exploitation of natural resources of developing countries. Globalization can induce firms to go abroad to evade their own norms, thus undercutting fundamental principles that form their own nation's economy. For instance, when Wal-Mart makes deals in China, it may avoid U.S. taxes, evade costs of a cleaner environment, hire sweatshop child labor to make clothing, and so on. (1) Some think globalization, if unchecked, will result in social disintegration and political instability. (2) There is an emerging view that globalization involves much more than trade and commerce, ushering in a new category of human rights which extends to issues such as individual identity, sympathies and aspirations. (3) Globalization involves a need to understand and absorb the perspectives and experiences of people from distinctly different cultures and to avoid parochialism, the tendency to see all issues and evaluate all norms through the lens of one's own culture. The energy problems of the world are of a large magnitude and create deep concern. The oil industry is facing challenges in an effort to find new deposits to satisfy a world dependent on oil and to pursue overseas projects that are marketed as environmentally friendly. Recent oil industry publications advise its members to be more community-conscious by entering into contracts to benefit the local population and not just the host government. (4) The availability of tort claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) (5) is a drastic but increasingly available remedy to adjudicate environmental damages claimed by foreigners for multinational projects conducted abroad. Protracted disputes and litigation are the inevitable result when a multinational company seeks to exploit foreign resources without seeking the consensus of whose lives and cultures would be impacted--as illustrated in a case study of the U'wa of Colombia, as well as with still-pending litigation involving of Ecuador and Peru in Maria Aguinda, et al., v. Texaco. (6) An emerging sense of ethical norms as discussed in this article suggests that multinational companies may want to adopt the model discussed in this article for resolution of environmental disputes with prior to implementation of projects. This can be an enlightened means to reconcile the economic interests of multinational companies with the cultural interests of both the and the foreign governments that are seeking to utilize their natural resources. 2. DEFINITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES No agreed-upon definition of the term indigenous peoples exists. The term indigenous peoples usually refers to those people and groups descended from original populations of a given country. …