Aviation
BBC: World’s wealthiest ‘at heart of climate problem’
The world’s wealthy must radically change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says. Read here
Energy
Climate Crisis
Jeffrey Sachs – New Economics for Sustainable Development
The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism hosted Jeffrey Sachs on sustainable development, ecological crises, inequality+Q/A on the weakness of economics in addressing empirics, non-market institutions, technological change, and its own ethical foundations
Climate Crisis
Reuters – Nine EU advisers threaten walkout over sustainable finance row
Welcome to the EU Brown Deal Read here
Climate Crisis
Euro Intelligence: Glowing Green
The contours of the EU “Brown Deal” are becoming ever clearer. First natural gas is green, now nuclear energy. Next in line is “green” coal. Read here Fukushima: The EU’s vision of a Green World
Climate Crisis
Oliver Miltenberger, Matthew D. Potts – Why corporate climate pledges of ‘net-zero’ emissions should trigger a healthy dose of scepticism
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Some companies’ net-zero plans include continuing to emit climate-warming greenhouse gases for decades. Oliver Miltenberger, The University of Melbourne and Matthew D. Potts, University of California, Berkeley Hundreds of companies, including major […]
Energy
Wolfgang Streeck – Accelerating Decline
At some point someone will put a figure on the deaths caused by the Great Vaccination Slowdown. Wolfgang Streeck is the Emeritus Director of Director the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in […]
Climate Crisis
Alex Kirby – Big carbon users top global sports sponsors’ league
Big Tobacco used to be one of the principal sports sponsors. Now some major climate polluters have replaced it: Big Carbon. Alex Kirby is a former BBC journalist and environment correspondent. He now works with […]
Climate Crisis
New Weather Institute – Badvertising: Sweat not Oil
Why sports should drop advertising and sponsorship from high-carbon polluters Read here
Climate Crisis
Reuters – Blinken warns entities involved in Nord Stream 2 pipeline to immediately quit
Just as Trump saved the EU from TTIP, Biden may stop the climate destruction of Nord Stream 2. Read here
Climate Crisis
Frances Coppola – From Carbon To Metals: the Renewable Energy Transition
Good to see someone explaining this aspect of a circular economy Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, which is a regular feature on the Financial Times’ Alphaville blog and has […]