Eurostat: Germany burning 45% of Lignite in EU
Germany is mistakenly regarded as a leader in fighting CO2 in the EU. In reality it uses almost half the lignite employed in the EU for energy production. Read here
Germany is mistakenly regarded as a leader in fighting CO2 in the EU. In reality it uses almost half the lignite employed in the EU for energy production. Read here
John O’Nolan/Unsplash, FAL Steve Keen, UCL While climate scientists warn that climate change could be catastrophic, economists such as 2018 Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus assert that it will be nowhere near as damaging. In […]
Do democratic institutions like the British Citizens Assembly exist in the EU? Chaitanya Kumar is Head of Environment and Green Transition at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the website of the New Economics Foundation […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed a simple truth: today’s model of globalised, financialised capitalism, teetering on a shaky foundation of vast debts and costly credit, cannot deliver human well-being. In order to reverse the course, […]
Is it true that we’ve made no progress on climate change in the past two years as Greta Thurnberg has claimed? I fear that it is. This is why:
There are the deniers who will argue that mankind has no influence on climate, but worse yet, there are economists who argue the impact will be so small the cost of trying to prevent it […]
Over 140 years ago, Friedrich Engels noted how the private ownership of the land, the drive for profit and the degradation of nature go hand in hand. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City […]
Natural gas could play an increasing role in the German energy system following the coal exit decided in July 2020 by the German parliament. However, natural gas has no climate benefit compared to coal. What […]
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Not all too long ago it was clear: If we stopped using plastic bags and straws, while sorting our recycling waste assiduously, then all would be well with the […]
Steve’s paper exposing the dreadful work on climate change done by William Nordhaus (and his band of like-simpleminded Neoclassical economists) has now been published by the journal Globalizations. The link is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2020.1807856
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