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DeSmog UK – Creative Carbon Accounting: How Industry and Government Make Burning Wood Look Like a Climate Solution

July 15, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

We are confronted with a climate disaster and the only answers we are receiving from the political class are scams enriching international corporations and meaningless declarations “climate emergencies”. Here still another example. By Alex Varley-Winter […]

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Transport & Environment – Disastrous Mercosur Deal Opens Door to South American Biofuels While Palm Oil Biodiesel Use Reaches Record High

July 11, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Anyone who takes the time to read about the Mercosur trade deal realises it is not in the interest of the environment, neither in Europe or South America. It is however excellent news for the […]

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Richard Murphy – Carbon Pricing is Not the Most Effective Way to Reduce Emissions

July 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Green New Deal is not just about climate change being solved with simplistic measures: the introduction of a carbon tax and then everything will be good again. The Green New Deal is about re-designing […]

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Transport & Environment – Almost Two-Thirds of Palm Oil Consumed in the EU is Burned as Energy – New Data

July 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 1

This is typical for the EU. While citizens are trying to reduce their personal consumption of palm oil to protect the environment, the EU is increasingly using it in fuel. The new trade deal with […]

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Bloomberg: Bitcoin Mining Puts Pressure on Iran’s Power Grids

July 2, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

How we are losing the battle against climate change: speculative capitalism. Read here

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Thomas Piketty: The illusion of centrist ecology

June 27, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

It is increasingly clear that the resolution of the climate challenge will not be possible without a strong movement in the direction of the compression of social inequalities at all levels. Read here

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Rain Forest Rescue: EU destroys 700,000 hectares of rainforest for biofuels

June 27, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil “sustainable”. Yet on the other side of the globe, rainforests are being clear-cut to produce the 1.9 million tons […]

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Climate Home News: Four countries have declared climate emergencies, yet give billions to fossil fuels

June 27, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The UK, France, Canada and Ireland have all formally recognised a climate crisis. But analysis shows they give $27.5bn annually in support for coal, oil and gas Read here

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John Christensen – Coal Subsidies Reveal G20’s Failure to Tackle Climate Emergency

June 26, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

From exploration / production through to consumption coal is subsidised to the tune of US $47 billion annually by G20 nations, yet they claim to be wanting to cut greenhouse gas emissions. What’s going on? […]

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Hauke Benner – The Economic System Question Arrives at the Centre of German Society

June 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Germany will not be the same again. The week of protest against the climate crisis in the coal-mining region on the Rhein Hauke Benner is a former journalist and currently a political activist against climate […]

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Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise by Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri 

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Book Review by  Chenchao Lian Originally published by E-International Relations How is Chinese foreign policy made? How is it implemented? These are questions that have long occupied China specialists. With the growth of Chinese power […]

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