Climate Crisis
Client Earth: What’s wrong with the EU’s new green investment rules?
If we want to solve climate change, we need to change where the money goes. And for that, we need rules. Read Here Photo: www.kremlin.ru
Lobbying
Corruption
Politics Joe – Corruption in Politics with Private Eye
Absolutely brilliant watch as Ian Hislop, Richard Brooks, and Solomon Hughes of Private Eye explain corruption patiently to the British parliamentary select committee on standards. The discussion is so basic, and we are not progressing. […]
Climate Crisis
DeSmog UK – EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments
This article tries to explain why taxonomy is so crucial and how corporate and political interests have corrupted the process. By Stella Levantesi, an Italian climate journalist Cross-posted from DeSmog UK A nuclear plant outside […]
Climate Crisis
Euractiv: Investors worth €50 trillion call on EU to exclude gas from green finance taxonomy
Yes, but German corporations have heavily invested in gas and will continue to invest heavily. The German government will protect these interests. And Germany is the EU hegemon. Read here
Climate Crisis
Bill McKibben: What happens if you greenwash greenwash?
It’s hard to go lower than net zero…. Read here
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: Shipping carbon price loophole lets millions of tonnes of CO2 off the hook
The EU’s “Brown Deal” makes it possible Read Here
Climate Crisis
Reuters: EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green
The EU: always in the service of corporate profit and oligarchs Read here This file comes from the website of the President of the Russian Federation and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4
Climate Crisis
Luca Bonaccorsi – That inedible dish called the EU Taxonomy
Greenwashing is not a problem for the green transition, it is THE problem. Luca Bonaccorsi is Director of Sustainable Finance at Transport & Environment Cross-posted from the website of Transport & Environment Imagine you’ve worked […]
Corruption
DW: German arms exports hit new record during Merkel’s last days
Merkel and Scholz were always the lobbyists for corporations of the worst kind. Merkel is no longer chancellor, now it is Scholz. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose Read here
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – The distorted priorities of the French EU Council Presidency
Nothing changes in the EU: neo-liberalism, neo-liberalism, and still more neo-liberalism – and much more inequality. The Corporate Europe Observatory is a non-profit research and campaign group whose declared aim is to “expose any effects […]