Austerity
Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis
The Green New Deal Group – The Green New Deal: How to Make it Happen
This briefing explains how the Green New Deal Bill, the first attempt to legislate for a Green New Deal in the UK would work, and how it would transform almost every aspect of our lives […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – Climate Crisis: ‘Clyde-built’ is How Scotland Saves the World
Not so long ago in a wee land not so far, far away…… Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think tank Common Weal. Cross-posted from Common Space I NEVER enjoy launch events which […]
Climate Crisis
SGR – New Poll Reveals a Climate ‘Awareness – Action Gap’ – but Big Behaviour Changes Under Way in Food, Travel, Consumerism & Family Life
A new poll of scientists – many working in fields related to the climate emergency – reveals a current gap between awareness of international climate goals and action to align lifestyles with them, writes Andrew […]
Climate Crisis
Steven Keen – ‘4°C of Global Warming is Optimal’ – Even Nobel Prize Winners are Getting Things Catastrophically Wrong
Some places are hotter than others – but what happens when they all heat up? Calvin Hanson/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Steve Keen, UCL William Nordhaus was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics for “integrating climate […]
Climate Crisis
David Keating: European Investment Bank Delays EU Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Proposal
An alcoholic, the Germans, and Orban join forces to protect fossil fuel corporations and destroy the planet. Read here
Climate Crisis
David Shirreff – Germany’s Brown Coal Drifts into the Red
Lignite mining in Germany is under attack from all sides. Can it survive until 2038? And if it doesn’t, who will pay? LEAG, the biggest operator of mines and power stations in the east has […]
Aviation
Government Europa: Helsinki Airport expansion supported by European Investment Bank
If the European Investment Bank is Europe’s ‘climate bank’ why is it financing expansion of Helsinki Airport, increasing the airport’s annual capacity to around 30 million passengers? Read here
Climate Crisis
Robert Fox: Carbon, tobacco and economists: a modern tale
A brilliant explanation discrediting carbon tax against simple prohibition of excessive CO². Read here
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – Green New Deal: Yes, I’m Knackered – but I Can See Utopia From Here
This may be about Scotland, but it is relevant for everywhere. A Green New Deal is not just a programme, it is a revolution – to the betterment of us all. The question is if […]