Climate Crisis
Thomas Piketty: The age of green money
Could the Covid-19 crisis accelerate the adoption of a new, more equitable and more sustainable development model? The answer is yes, but under certain conditions. Read here
Green New Deal
Aviation
Asbjørn Wahl – A Red-Green New Deal in Transport: Workers’ Power + Renewable Electrification of the Whole Economy
The EU”s transport sector is like most businesses run contrary to existing laws and regulations, but lack of control and enforcement makes it possible to operate on the side of the law (if the US […]
Environment
The Sustainability Agenda – Interview with Naomi Klein
In this episode Fergal Byrne speaks with Naomi Klein, renowned author and activist on the state of crisis we’re in and the hope provided by Green New Deals. We’ve made a lot of progress in […]
Aviation
George Monbiot – Corona Crisis: No Government should offer Airlines and Oil Giants a Lifeline
This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers. Read here
Aviation
Sven Giegold – Lobbyists are Trying to Water Down a Sustainable Way out of the Corona Crisis
Sven Giegold warns that the Coronavirus pandemic has been used as a pretext by powerful lobbies to weaken and delay a European Green Deal. Sven Giegold is a German Green MEP Cross-posted from Source Picture […]
Austerity
Juan Carlos Barba, Juan Laborda, Stuart Medina – We don’t Need a Marshall Plan. We Want a Green New Deal!
Spain is undoubtedly the EU nation that will be hardest hit economically by the Covid-19 due to its dependence on sectors such as tourism and the virulence of the pandemic. Juan Carlos Barba is an […]
Climate Crisis
Servaas Storm – The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work Servaas Storm is a Dutch economist and author who works on macroeconomics, technological […]
Climate Crisis
MMT Podcast: Fadhel Kaboub – Coronavirus and Earth Day 2020
Christian and Patricia talk to President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Dr Fadhel Kaboub about the response to the coronavirus pandemic and the MMT online march for Earth Day on 22 April 2020 […]
Climate Crisis
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast with Gail Bradbrook
In our monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How many more signs do we need to tell us we must urgently reform our economies, keep essential services out of private hands and transition away from fossil fuels? […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Green Swan Risks Should Change the Way We See Finance, forever
One knows things are getting serious when organisations like the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) start thinking about the effects of the climate crisis. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City […]