Energy
Greg Ford: Three months of banking profits could prevent a ‘fossil subprime’ crisis
Finance Watch’s latest report explores the impact of adjusting banks’ capital requirements for fossil fuel exposures Read Here
Energy
Climate Crisis
Do You Want to Know the Truth? by Rupert Read
Book Review by Alison Teal Honesty is the key word for Rupert Read’s new book Do You Want to Know the Truth? Rarely is this book what one would consider ‘light’ reading. Collecting some of […]
Climate Crisis
COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong
Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL; Richard Taylor, UCL, and Simon Chin-Yee, UCL Billed as “Africa’s COP”, the 27th UN climate change summit (otherwise known as COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was expected to promote […]
Climate Crisis
Stella Levantesi: Fossil Fuel-Linked Companies Dominate Sponsorship of COP27
From software giants to soft drinks makers, the vast majority of partners at climate talks in Egypt are enmeshed with the oil and gas industry, researchers find. Stella Levantesi is an Italian climate journalist, photographer, and […]
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Jonathan Cook – Cop27: The dirty secret Europe is hiding at the climate summit
Grand declarations on tackling the climate emergency are sabotaged by a treaty from the 1990s that holds European states to ransom Jonathan Cook is the the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and […]
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Bobby Banerjee – Why COP27 should be the last of these pointless corporate love-ins
Bobby Banerjee, City, University of London It’s a glorious afternoon at a luxury resort in Egypt, with six swimming pools leading to a lovely little stretch of beach on the Red Sea. A salsa aquatic […]
Climate Crisis
IQ Air: European energy crisis fuels poor air quality from Poland to Greece
As cold winds blow across the northern European plains and through Balkan valleys, many Europeans are relying on inexpensive local fuel sources for home heating. Though cheaper, heavy reliance on wood and coal burning for […]
Climate Crisis
Global Witness: 636 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to COP27
This is not a climate conference. It has become a trade fair. Read Here
Energy
Andreas Budiman and Ruby Silk – Resources For Net-Zero: Beyond the Earth’s Crust
Current net zero ambitions demand raw materials beyond their reserves. We need to see energy and resource demand as a broader systemic issue. Andreas Budiman and Ruby Silk are authors at Meta Cross-posted from Meta […]
Climate Crisis
Jem Bendell: Climate Honesty – are we ‘beyond catastrophe’?
This is an essay that responds critically to the widely read piece in the New York Times that appears to be calming the nerves of climate professionals at COP27 and beyond. Jem Bendell is Professor […]