Climate Crisis
Daniela Gabor – The European Green Deal will bypass the poor and go straight to the rich
For all the talk of retraining Polish miners, this fund will most likely line the pockets of the carbon finance elites Read here
Sustainability
Climate Crisis
David Barmes – The UK’s Decoupling Delusion: Have We Really Divorced Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions?
This article could well apply to any of the advanced economies and is thus relevant for at least much of Europe. David Barmes is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency. Cross-posted […]
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Investors welcome Poland’s decision to freeze last coal-fueled plant project
Shares in Polish state-run utilities Energa and Enea gained on Friday after they froze financing of their joint project to build 1 a GW coal-fueled power unit, citing difficulties raising funds due to environmental concerns. […]
Climate Crisis
Zack Walsh – Breakdown or breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
We have already surpassed the known limits to growth, so degrowth is our only option. Zack Walsh is a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany. He co-leads the […]
Climate Crisis
Thomas Roulet, Joel Bothello: Why “De-growth” Shouldn’t Scare Businesses
The degrowth movement has already begun: at a grassroots level, consumer demand is actively being transformed, despite political and corporate reticence. Read here Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images
Climate Crisis
Damien Thomson – EU Parliament Fails to Block Approval for Fossil Fuel Projects
Forget the EU’s Green Deal. Call it climate hypocrisy instead. One day the European Parliament declares a climate emergency, now they vote in favour of fracking. Again it was EU hegemon Germany behind this vote. […]
Climate Crisis
Attac Austria – Turquoise Green: Too Much for the Rich and Corporations, Too Little for the Climate
Not all is well in the monarchy of Austria. Attac Austria examines the current programme of the Conservative-Green coalition government and finds it lacking. Attac Austria is the Austrian chapter of the global globalization-critical movement […]
Solutions
Alex Kirby – Cities Turn to Freewheeling Public Transport
Cities worldwide are making their public transport free to use. As passenger numbers rise, car use falls. What’s not to like? Alex Kirby is a former BBC journalist and environment correspondent. He now works with […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – BP is responsible for the oil it sells. No one else is. And on that basis it is clear it has no intention of being a net-zero carbon company
There is no lie too small or too large that corporations will not use to increase profits. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues […]
Austerity
Désobéissance Ecolo Paris – Happy Birthday, Youth Climate Movement
Paris climate protesters smash their way into HQ of Black Rock – the world’s largest fund managers – and vandalise offices in latest act of violence directed at Emmanuel Macron Protesters redecorated BlackRock offices in […]