EU politics
Al Jazeera – EU threatens tariff hike of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles
The EU is mirroring the United States’ tariff policy on Chinese electric vehicles, despite Germany’s opposition. Read the article HERE.
Green New Deal
Climate Crisis
Irene Casado Sanchez, Jackie Botts – A program meant to help developing nations fight climate change is funneling billions of dollars back to rich countries
‘Climate finance’ from the global north to the global south is just high-interest loans, sometimes tied to obligations to source materials for green projects from rich countries. In ‘Reuters’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Orsetta Causa, Maxime Nguyen, Emilia Soldani – Lost in the green transition: Measurement and stylised facts
This data on green and high-polluting jobs explains a lot about the politics of the green transition. To put it simply, it’s materialism, stupid: most people need to see the green transition make a material […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Tariffs, technology and industrial policy
China is catching up with the United States, which is why the US is turning to protectionist measures just as the British empire did in the late 19th century to stem the challengers to its […]
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Moving to a sustainable system of food production within a degrowth paradigm
André Gorz: “The profit-driven economy must be replaced by a decentralised, distributive economy. Only in integrated communities, “on a human scale”, can the adjustment of production to needs and of needs to resources – as […]
Climate Crisis
João Camargo – Corrupting the Future: The Sines 4.0 Data Centre That Collapsed Portugal’s Government
The scandal which brought down Portugal’s government holds lesson about the energy transition and so much more. João Camargo is a climate activist in grassroots movement Climaximo in Portugal and in the Climate Jobs campaign. […]
Austerity
The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Upon finishing The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by SOAS economics professor Costas Lapavitsas and the other ten members of the EReNSEP Writing Collective my question was: […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – A way to skip the world war ahead
Confronted with a climate and geopolitical disaster what now? Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Commom Weal Elsewhere I have described what is happening in Israel/Palestine as an […]
Climate Crisis
Julieta Perucca – Green housing threatens affordability. But it doesn’t have to.
Attempt to reduce carbon emissions from housing risk running into multiple ‘Yellow Vest’ moments unless housing is made a social good, not a for-profit asset. Julieta Perucca is an experienced human rights advocate, previously working […]
Energy
Global Witness – EU imports of Russian LNG have jumped by 40% since the invasion of Ukraine
EU imports of Russian liquified natural gas are rising faster than the global average increase! Global Witness is an NGO for a more sustainable, just and equal planet. This is a press release. Countries in […]