Economics
Eurostat – Green energy products 2020: EU imports exceed exports
Not terribly auspicious for creating well paid jobs in the renewable energy sector, but then Germany wants blue hydrogen, so that’s OK Read here
Energy
Climate Crisis
Blake Matich, Jonathan Gifford – Making Europe’s Solar Future
Despite a promising start a decade ago, European production of solar power infrastructure has had mixed fortunes. Amid rising geopolitical tensions with China, and supply chains disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the case for a […]
Climate Crisis
Jawad Moustakbal: The Moroccan energy sector – A permanent dependence
The ambitious renewable energy plan launched by the Moroccan government in 2009, which aims to cover 52 per cent of installed electricity capacity by 2030, could have significantly reduced the country’s dependence on largely imported […]
Climate Crisis
Timothée Parrique – Is degrowth bad economics?
We will find that reality and the capitalist/mainstream discourse will increasingly diverge. Timothée Parrique holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm […]
Climate Crisis
Bloomberg: Shell Ditches U.K. Oil Project in Win for Climate Activists
Again, governments did not stop this (Let’s here it for the oh so progressive SNP). Read here Flickr – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
Aviation
Julia Steinberger – Living well within planetary limits: is it possible? And what will it take?
This is a talk by Julia Steinberger from 24 November 2021 Hier die deutsche Version:
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – More Oil or Post-Oil Economy
The situation in Scotland with decarbonising is the same as in the rest of Europe: Net Zero Change. Although explicitly about Scotland, there are many good universal points in this article making it well worth […]
Aviation
Hauke Benner – New German Coalition: Climate Progress at a Snail’s Tempo
COP26, the CAP, the EU Recovery Plan, and now this. The EU political elite is committed to “business as usual”, with some innocuous green goodies for its PR-machine. Hauke Benner is a former journalist and […]
Climate Crisis
David Wallace-Wells: Ten Million a Year
The burning of fossil fuels kill ten million persons through air pollution alone. There are so many reasons to leave fossil fuels in the ground. Read here
Climate Crisis
CNN: Portugal’s power production goes coal-free long before deadline
Portugal has gone entirely coal-free, 9 years ahead of the country’s initial deadline to phase out coal, the planet’s most polluting fossil fuel. Read here Wikimedia Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Internationa