Climate Crisis
Responsible Statecraft: How Azerbaijan is ‘peacewashing’ its image ahead of COP 29
Baku is hosting the climate summit in November with some help from a high priced PR firm Read HERE
Sustainability
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Let’s stop pretending that we are going to live comfortably
Climate emergency, Israeli genocide in Palestine and now Lebanon, the lost war in Ukraine. The Western authoritarian liberal political class in denial with in horrendous consequences Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – The little-known ‘forum’ locking Europe into a fossil fuelled future
The European Commission’s ‘ICM Forum’ on 10-11 October in Pau, France, is a fossil-fuel industry-led carbon coup, aiming to lock the continent into fossil fuels for decades. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory The EU has […]
Energy
TJ Jordan – UK’s £22 Billion Carbon Capture Pledge Follows Surge in Lobbying by Fossil Fuel Industry, Records Show
The scope of corporate influence underscores concerns the technology will be used to prolong demand for planet-heating natural gas. TJ Jordan is an investigative reporter who focuses on greenwashing and climate communications. He joined DeSmog […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Capitalism’s Attack on Time & Nature
Why governments and big oil cannot face the future. Read HERE Pie in the sky – photo: Jonathan McIntosh/Creative Commons
Energy
Balkan Green Energy News: Europe is facing energy crisis in winter because of Ukraine
About half of Ukraine’s power generation capacity isn’t in operation, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), so the country has turned from a net exporter of electricity to an importer. Read HERE Photo: State […]
DeGrowth
Chris Hedges: Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
Climate activists are being locked behind bars while our rulers burn down the world, exemplified by the fossil-fuelled annihilation of Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years […]
Climate Crisis
Enzo Rossi – Growing Pains: Climate Change and the Socialist Transformation
The debate between those who advocate degrowth and those who advocate eco-modernism on the international left has often been unnecessarily polemical, and both sides have failed to offer a compelling vision to the public. Enzo […]
EU politics
ARC – CAP not Matching Europe’s Green Ambitions, say Auditors (again)
CAP 2023-2027 is greener than the previous CAP – but plans “do not match the EU’s ambitions for the climate and the environment”. That’s according to the ECA – the European Court of Auditors ARC2020 […]
Environment
Corporate Europe Observatory – Bayer’s Toxic Trails
Market power, monopolies, and the global lobbying of an agrochemical giant Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Photo: Bayer Leverkusen Corporate Europe Observatory takes a deep dive into the present – and dark past – of the German […]