Corruption
Politico: Big business circles EU’s consumer protections
An industry-friendly approach to consumer protection could make its way into EU legislation after years of lobbying. Read here
Environment
Climate Crisis
Han de Groot: The Best Technology for Fighting Climate Change Isn’t a Technology
Forests are the most powerful and efficient carbon-capture system on the planet Read here
Austerity
Pamela Anderson – Yellow Vests and I
Pamela Anderson has put together a brilliant piece. It is conspicuous that no politician is capable of writing an article like this. It says a lot about the European political class. Pamela Anderson is a […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda: Interview with Kate Raworth
In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to how economic theory is divorced from environmental reality, exemplified by how environmental breakdown is often dismissingly referred to as a mere “externality”. In this […]
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, […]
Corruption
BBC – The Romanian forest that’s disappearing
Romania: Rampant corruption, building cheap cars for Renault, exporting cheap labour to Western Europe, destroying its environment. Another EU success story. Watch here
Climate Crisis
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – “Mark and Carrie”
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include the California […]
Climate Crisis
The Guardian: Global food system is broken, say world’s science academies
Radical overhaul in farming and consumption, with less meat eating, needed to avoid hunger and climate catastrophe Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Under plastics pressure
Industry turns up the heat to avoid plastics regulation spurred by public demand. As EU negotiators try to reach agreement on the single-use plastics proposal this week, industry lobbies continue their push to avoid robust […]