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ICCT – Practical lessons in vehicle efficiency policy: The 10-year evolution of France’s CO2-based bonus-malus (feebate) system

March 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

 It is seldom that EU governments receive praise fo their policy with regards to cars. Here is one of those rare examples. Zifei Yang is a Researcher in the Passenger Vehicle and China Programs at […]

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DeSmog UK: Statoil Drops ‘Oil’ From its Name, But Not its Business Model

March 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Admittedly Norway uses its oil wisely and socially, but fossil fuel is fossil fuel and CO2 remains CO2. This cannot be the solution. Read here  

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Lexit Network – Founding declaration: Austria Self-determined

March 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 1

“Selbstbestimmtes Österreich” (SBÖ, Austria Self-determined) is a new political alliance in Austia.  They define four basic lines for their approach on Austrian politics: Democratic, Social, Sovereign, Neutral. The approach is in key points very colse […]

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Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi

March 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science

March 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Monsanto Papers are a treasure trove of internal documents slowly released since March 2017 as part of a US lawsuit by cancer victims against Monsanto over its ubiquitous herbicide, glyphosate. They tell a lot […]

Corruption

Reuters: Diesel collapse gives automakers carbon headache

March 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is how absurd things can become – thanks to the EU: Diesel was supposed to reduce CO2., but the car manufacturers, to increase their profits, cheated, and produced radically more nitrogen oxide than permitted, […]

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George Ferns – Seven climate change myths that big oil continues to perpetuate

February 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

kiss/Shutterstock George Ferns, Cardiff University In the last month alone, major players within the fossil fuel industry – “big oil” – have made some big announcements regarding climate change. BP revealed plans to reduce its […]

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Climate News Network – Fairer world may mean more modest dreams

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

To achieve a fairer world, humans must think again about how they manage the only planet at their disposal. By Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 […]

Climate Crisis

Will big business destroy our planet? By Peter Dauvergne

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Kieran Cooke Big business says it’s leading the world to a sustainable future. But a new book says that’s a highly implausible claim. Transnational corporations, or TNCs, or just plain big business, […]

Climate Crisis

DeSmog UK: Insurance Companies Claim They’ve Gone Clean, But Still Invest Billions in Polish Coal

February 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The suits are still making money at the expense of our climate. Whenever managers of international corporations can find a microphone or journalist, all they talk about is their green policy. In reality it is […]

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The Debt Delusion by John Weeks

November 14, 2019 1

Book review by Mathew D. Rose When Ha-Joon Chang exhorted: “We need an economic literacy campaign so people understand the language used by the ruling class”, he was probably thinking of books like John Weeks’ […]

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Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century.  Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication of the title was that it […]

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