Aviation
George Monbiot – Corona Crisis: No Government should offer Airlines and Oil Giants a Lifeline
This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers. Read here
Energy
Climate Crisis
Jonathan Marshall – Low Oil Price could be a Boon for Net Zero
Cheap oil has always been a problem for renewable energy. This time maybe not. Jonathan Marshall is Head of Analysis at the Energy &Climate Intelligence Unit Cross-posted from the ECIU website Historically, sustained low fossil […]
Aviation
Sven Giegold – Lobbyists are Trying to Water Down a Sustainable Way out of the Corona Crisis
Sven Giegold warns that the Coronavirus pandemic has been used as a pretext by powerful lobbies to weaken and delay a European Green Deal. Sven Giegold is a German Green MEP Cross-posted from Source Picture […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine: After this Crisis, our Lives and Economy can be Better – If We have Principles
This is the direction we should be thinking in. What comes after? If we do not know, it will be the same old neo-liberalism. An important weekend read. Robin McAlpine is the director of the […]
Climate Crisis
Carbon Brief: Analysis: Coronavirus set to cause largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions
The global coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold at a staggering pace, decimating lives, livelihoods and the normal functioning of society, as well as interrupting energy demand and CO2 emissions. Read here
Climate Crisis
Clean Energy Wire: Germany marks first ever quarter with more than 50 pct renewable electricity
Just think what could have been accomplished when the government wasn’t doing everything it can to block renewables. Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three months of […]
Energy
Grant Wilson, Noah Godfrey, Shivangi Sharma, Tom Bassett – We Analysed Electricity Demand and Found Coronavirus has Turned Weekdays into Weekends
This is probably indicative for most of Europe and gives a feel for the effects of the Corona Crisis in the energy sector. dcurzon / shutterstock Grant Wilson, University of Birmingham; Noah Godfrey, University of […]
Climate Crisis
Laura Merrill – Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Taxation: Two Sides of the same Carbon Coin
Generous government subsidies around the world are, even now, enabling the extraction and burning of fossil fuels that would otherwise remain in the ground. A global technocratic elite that claims to value market forces is […]
Climate Crisis
Daniela Gabor – The European Green Deal will bypass the poor and go straight to the rich
For all the talk of retraining Polish miners, this fund will most likely line the pockets of the carbon finance elites Read here
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Investors welcome Poland’s decision to freeze last coal-fueled plant project
Shares in Polish state-run utilities Energa and Enea gained on Friday after they froze financing of their joint project to build 1 a GW coal-fueled power unit, citing difficulties raising funds due to environmental concerns. […]