Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory: Research & Destroy
The factories of the industrial bioeconomy threaten the climate and biodiversity Read here
Environment
Climate Crisis
Tim Radford – Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall – but by Accident
The good news is that carbon dioxide emissions have fallen in line with global agreement. But we have chance to thank for that. Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory: The future according to Shell
Shell is thus once again selling its supposed vision of a sustainable future, hoping to distract from the reality that the company bears a significant share of the responsibility for climate change and has a […]
Aviation
Corporate Europe Observatory – Corona Lobby Watch
Who would have expected that: Opportunistic lobbyists abuse the EU’s unprecedented health crisis. Lobbyists for many industries are opportunistically repackaging old demands, or developing new ones, and using the Corona Crisis to justify them, even […]
Environment
The Sustainability Agenda – Interview with Naomi Klein
In this episode Fergal Byrne speaks with Naomi Klein, renowned author and activist on the state of crisis we’re in and the hope provided by Green New Deals. We’ve made a lot of progress in […]
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
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell – Corona Crisis: The advanced nations should take the lead of Pakistan in job creation
Bill Mitchell on the Job Guarantee. Read here
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – After Corona, the new normal
In some parts of the world politicians, investors, business leaders and economists are behaving as though the Corona virus is almost eradicated. There are talks of easing up on restrictions, even though it’s only through […]
Climate Crisis
Grist: The world is on lockdown. So where are all the carbon emissions coming from?
Wait, what? Even with the global economy at a near-standstill, the best analysis suggests that the world is still on track to release 95 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted in a typical year, continuing […]
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 […]