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Larry Elliot: Climate change will make the next global crash the worst
The storm clouds are gathering, but the world’s economies now have far fewer shelters from disaster than they did in 1929 Read here
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Matthew Adams – Individual action won’t achieve 1.5℃ warming – social change is needed, as history shows
Kubko/Shutterstock.com Matthew Adams, University of Brighton Following the 2015 Paris Agreement to hold the global increase in climate to below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was asked […]
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Alyssa Battistoni – Climate change: There’s No Time for Gradualism
The urgency of climate change has never been clearer. We need a bold vision of a good and livable future — and a political program to match. Read here
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George Monbiot: The one good thing about Brexit? Leaving the EU’s disgraceful farming system
One could add the EU´s disgraceful global warming policy, or its disgraceful economic policy, or its disgraceful tax policy, or its disgraceful refugee policy, or……. Read here
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Hauke Benner- Germany´s tree-occupiers keep the multinational corporation RWE in check
On Saturday 50,000 protestors participated in a march to the Hambach Forest, one of Germany´s few remaining virgin woodlands. The Energy transnational corporation RWE wishes to destroy it to enable them to surface mine brown […]
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238 Academics: The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth
This week, scientists, politicians, and policymakers are gathering in Brussels for a landmark conference. The aim of this event, organised by members of the European parliament from five different political groups, alongside trade unions and […]
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Jason Hickel – Soothing fears about a post-growth world
Last week Foreign Policy published an article I wrote titled “Why growth can’t be green.” It stirred a lively online discussion – and of course attracted dissenters. Among them was one Noah Smith, who penned […]
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Greenpeace: 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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Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – X Marks the Spot
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 Hurricane Florence […]
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Jason Hickel – Why growth can’t be green
The promise of green growth turns out to have been based more on wishful thinking than on evidence. In the years since the Rio conference, three major empirical studies have arrived at the same rather […]