Climate Crisis
The Guardian: BBC’s London HQ put on lockdown over climate change protest
Extinction Rebellion group calls for environment to be made ‘top editorial issue’ Read here
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Sustainability Agenda – Interview with Carlota Perez
Listen here Professor Carlota Perez has spent her career researching the profound impact technology has had on socio-economic development. In this fascinating interview, we explore the two distinct phases of a technological revolution as outlined […]
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Kyla Tienhaara – The fossil fuel era is coming to an end, but the lawsuits are just beginning
T A coal mine near the mountains in Alberta.(Shutterstock) Kyla Tienhaara, Queen’s University, Ontario “Coal is dead.” These are not the words of a Greenpeace activist or left-wing politician, but of Jim Barry, the […]
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Larry Elliot: We’re back to the 1930s politics of anger and, yes, appeasement
“Brexit is not the most important issue facing the world; it is not even the most important issue facing Britain.” “Katowice was the real Munich and the feeble UN accord the equivalent of the piece […]
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VoxEU: Paul De Grauwe – Who should pay for the cost of climate policies?
New budgetary rules imposed by the European Commission prevent the costs of public investment from being spread over time, obliging governments to impose 100% of the costs of envinronmental investments on today’s households and firms. Paul De Grauwe […]
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Tax Justice Network: Podast December 2018
In edition 84 of the December 2018 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: time’s running out to tackle the climate crisis facing us all. We look at environmental taxes and making them fair, […]
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Nicholas Beuret – Climate action must now focus on the global rich and their corporations
Zacarias Pereira da Mata / shutterstock Nicholas Beuret, University of Essex The latest UN climate talks, known as COP24, have just concluded. The supposed story this time was one of a grinding victory by the […]
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Positive Money Europe – ECB missed the opportunity to revise QE reinvestments
Despite its recent decision the European Central Bank will keep re-injecting more than 190 billion euros into the financial system in 2019. But the ECB is not making the optimal use of those reinvestments. Cross-posted […]
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Yanis Varoufakis: My plan to revive Europe can succeed where Macron and Piketty failed
Under my Green New Deal, €500bn a year can be created without raising taxes – and it may tempt Britain back to the fold. Read here