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Economics
Bill Mitchell: The Job Guarantee is more than a Green New Deal job creation policy
Yes, Bill Mitchell´s articles are lengthy. Even if one may not agree, his arguments are always enlightening. And yes, we do read them attentively from beginning to end. “A Just Transition framework is very complicated […]
Climate Crisis
Danny Dorling – Geography and Climate Breakdown
“When I was a schoolboy physical geographers taught me that the next ice age was coming. It was coming imminently they said. When I was at university they used to climb mountains to measure glacier […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – Coal is king at UN climate talks in Poland
Next week, countries will gather in Katowice, Poland, for the latest round of UN climate negotiations, known as COP24. Their plan is to try to agree on how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda – Ian Gough
In this interview, we welcome Ian Gough to discuss his most recent book Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism, and Sustainable Wellbeing. Here, Ian describes his initial concerns over the evident gap between […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Renewable gas lobby exposed as misleading ahead of EU 2050 Climate Strategy
Ahead of the European Commission announcing its ‘2050 Climate Strategy’ for complying with the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) today released a two-part briefing (Part I, Part II) on […]
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor – To Secure a Future, Britain Needs a Green New Deal
The Climate Change Crisis has reached such dangerous proportions that we all have to alter our mode of living and thinking. We at BRAVE NEW EUROPE too, will in the future (actually we began a […]
Climate Crisis
Kevin MacKay – The Ecological Crisis is a Political Crisis
Kevin MacKay contends that oligarchy has been a more fundamental cause of the collapse of civilisations than social complexity or energy demand. Control by oligarchs, he argues, thwarts rational decision-making, because the short-term interests of […]
Climate Crisis
Tim Jackson: Degrowth – How the light gets in
The Entropy Law still matters. CUSP director Tim Jackson responds to Michael Liebreich’s essay on the ‘The secret of eternal growth’. Read here
Corruption
Ende Gelaende 2018 – Germany: Hambach coal track and RWE digger blocked
Hambacher Forest: 6,500 activists block mining operations in the Rhineland coalfield, Largest action of civil disobedience of the German climate movement. Read here