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Labour Heartlands: EU leaders fail to commit to climate neutrality by 2050
Despite there been more Green MEP’s in the European parliament than at any time the EU roll back on its promise climate neutral by 2050 Read here
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Fourways Review: Berlin backs off climate targets as protests heat up
Opposition leaders and environment activists condemned German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government Monday for watering down a new climate protection law, as “Extinction Rebellion” protestors blocked traffic in Berlin. Read here
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DeSmog UK – Ireland’s Meat and Dairy Farmers Bring in Tobacco PR Firm to Tackle Image Problem
This is the sort of response we can expect from industry as they protect their profits and not the environment. By John Gibbons, a Dublin-based specialist writer and commentator on climate and environmental issues. Cross-posted […]
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Current Affairs: We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth
The left should embrace de-growth, but it’s the rich that need to sacrifice… Read here
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Transport & Environment – EU Provides €24bn in Fossil Fuel Subsidies as “Perverse Incentive” for Shipping Pollution
One of the most polluting forms of transport is benefiting from what is effectively a fossil fuel subsidy of €24 billion a year, according to a new report by T&E. Shipping, which still runs largely […]
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Ann Pettifor: High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet—but it won’t reform itself
The establishment is waking up to the dangers of “rentier capitalism” but more than cosmetic change is required Read here
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Paul Brown – Nuclear Cannot Help Against Climate Crisis
With new plants costing from five to ten times more than renewable options, and taking far longer to build, nuclear cannot help against global warming. Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network and […]
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DeZeen: “Our dependency on growth, like on concrete, must be abolished”
The pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown and producing ecologically toxic architecture, argues Phineas Harper, one of the chief curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. Read here
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Sam Lowe – Should the EU put a Tax on Imported CO2?
An EU carbon border tax would be tricky to design, costly to implement and sure to provoke legal challenges. But if done properly there are reasons to think it could succeed, says the Centre for […]
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Counterpunch: Rob Urie – Climate Change and Technology
Most of the proposed technical solutions exacerbate environmental ills in other dimensions, and threaten to unleash a host of unintended consequences. Rob Urie is is an artist and political economist. His book Zen Economics is published by […]