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Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Great Green Wall
Insightful analysis of Biden’s new tariffs on China. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
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Fausto Corvino: Europe’s climate laws could spell the end to low-cost flights – but what about private jets?
Private flights in Europe have increased from just under 120,000 in 2020 to more than half a million in 2022, yet the European Commission has no plans to do anything about it. Fausto Corvin is […]
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Daniel Bleakley – Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds
A damning new report has shown that nearly all major car companies are actively sabotaging the world’s efforts to avoid catastrophic global warming. The lobbying strategies being used by the world’s largest automakers are putting […]
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Alejandro González, Bart-Jaap Verbeek: The EU’s critical minerals crusade
How the EU trade policy on raw materials deepens the environmental and inequality crises Alejandro González is Senior Researcher at SOMO Bart-Jaap Verbeek is Researcher at SOMO Read HERE
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Doloresz Katanich – European ports turned into car parks as EV makers hunt buyers
What should be considered a major asset in the low-carbon transition is Ursula Von Der Leyen’s worst nightmare. In ‘EuroNews’. Read the article HERE.
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João Carmago, Leonor Canadas – The Global Left Must Dare to Win on a Tight Deadline
A siren call for a revolutionary eco-socialist politics. Joao Camargo is a climate activist in grassroots movement Climaximo in Portugal and in the Climate Jobs campaign. Leonor Canadas is an activist in Climaximo, a grassroots […]
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Bill Mitchell: The green growth paradigm has a long tradition – which has never been supportable
l usage. But that pathway is in my view incompatible with the capitalist logic. Read HERE
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Corporate Europe Observatory – The Carbon Coup: how corporate capture is locking Europe into a fossil-fuelled future
The EU has an obsession with an inefficient technology as a means of reducing industrial carbon emissions. The money could be better spent elsewhere, this study suggests. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Carbon Capture from […]
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Jodie Keane – New EU trade rules could put poor countries in a billion dollar ‘green squeeze’
A series of new EU rules are set to increase costs for global south companies when exporting to Europe, an approach which is supposed to tackle climate change but may simply increase poverty. Jodie Keane […]
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GPEnewsdocs: Gilles Billen – Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix
Gilles Billen shows that industrial agriculture, propelled by international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle. This has provoked the crossing of planetary boundaries and endangered the possibility of feeding the world. Alternatives do […]