Energy
Politico – The Russian gas habit Europe can’t quit: LNG
Nord Stream may have died but EU liquefied natural gas imports from Russia have increased by 46 percent this year. Read Here
Energy
Climate Crisis
Client Earth: European Parliament resolution ‘final nail in the coffin’ for Energy Charter Treaty
The newest from Europe’s Disneyland parliament. Now that Germany had indicated that it will withdraw from the ECT this is permitted, although one never knows what the EU Commission might get up to. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Richard Heinberg – The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy—it’s adding to it. Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival This article was […]
Aviation
Simon Sharpe – Moore of the Wright stuff: COP27, cooperation, and calling peak fossils
The true game of climate diplomacy is for the actors in different countries who favour transitions to find ways to help each other. To make each other’s tasks less difficult. Simon Sharpe is Director of […]
Energy
Luca Poggi: Black Friday exposes dark side of trucking
Trucks are massive climate polluters, and the emissions from trucking retail goods spike 94% during Black Friday week. But there is a solution. Read Here
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
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 […]
Climate Crisis
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 […]