This year is now almost certain to become Earth’s warmest on record after a hot July and August saw global temperatures reach the Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Finance
Joseph E. Stiglitz , Dean Baker , Arjun Jayadev: Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy
Intellectual property rights have become the biggest monopoly scam in the world. They have been supported by the World Trade Organisation, which in turn is dominated by those nations home to these monopolistic multinationals. The […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew Simms and Peter Newell: We need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty – and we need it now
Climate breakdown is an imminent threat to humanity. But an international treaty could avert calamity. Read here
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Absent Without Leave:The European Union in the Corona Pandemic
How did the European Union respond to the Covid-19 pandemic? The first part of the paper analyzes the logic of the EU’s multi-level politics as it relates to the relationship between national and supranational decision-making […]
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