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Unearthed: Trade group including Facebook, Google to ‘oppose’ EU climate efforts
Leaked document details BusinessEurope’s campaign to undermine EU attempts to cut climate emissions Read here
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Corporate Europe Observatory – Coal is king at UN climate talks in Poland
Next week, countries will gather in Katowice, Poland, for the latest round of UN climate negotiations, known as COP24. Their plan is to try to agree on how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, […]
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Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – “Mark and Carrie”
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include the California […]
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Joost de Moor, Brian Doherty, and Graeme Hayes – The ‘new’ climate politics of Extinction Rebellion?
Creating a movement that can have the impact XR aims for will require confronting the political as well as the moral challenges posed by climate change. Joost de Moor is a postdoctoral Research Associate at […]
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The Guardian: Global food system is broken, say world’s science academies
Radical overhaul in farming and consumption, with less meat eating, needed to avoid hunger and climate catastrophe Read here
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The Sustainability Agenda – Ian Gough
In this interview, we welcome Ian Gough to discuss his most recent book Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism, and Sustainable Wellbeing. Here, Ian describes his initial concerns over the evident gap between […]
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Rupert Read – Extinction Rebellion: I’m an academic embracing direct action to stop climate change
Extinction Rebellion is probably one of the most important new political developments. In the EU, dominated by Germany´s car and reactionary energy policy (coal power and discounts for industry), is going nowhere fast with preventing global […]
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Extinction Rebellion – Climate activists block London bridges in “swarming protest”
Disruption could continue until Saturday as Extinction Rebellion continues climate change protest
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The Guardian: Avoid London, police warn motorists, amid Extinction Rebellion ‘swarming’ protests
Disruption could continue until Saturday as Extinction Rebellion continues climate change protest Read here
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Sofía López, Bram De Botselier, Simon Schunz – The EU talks big on protecting the Arctic, but it continues to prioritise economic interests over the environment
The Arctic is one of the world’s most environmentally fragile regions, but it also offers substantial economic opportunities. This has led many states and companies with an interest in the region to promote a policy […]