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
Sustainability
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
Joost de Moor, Brian Doherty, and Graeme Hayes – The ‘new’ climate politics of Extinction Rebellion?
Creating a movement that can have the impact XR aims for will require confronting the political as well as the moral challenges posed by climate change. Joost de Moor is a postdoctoral Research Associate at […]
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 […]
Environment
Martina Neuwirth – A Climate of Fairness
The tax justice movement and environmental movements are natural allies. This new study explores the issues around which we can coalesce Martina Neuwirth is Development Expert at the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda – Ian Gough
In this interview, we welcome Ian Gough to discuss his most recent book Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism, and Sustainable Wellbeing. Here, Ian describes his initial concerns over the evident gap between […]
Climate Crisis
Rupert Read – Extinction Rebellion: I’m an academic embracing direct action to stop climate change
Extinction Rebellion is probably one of the most important new political developments. In the EU, dominated by Germany´s car and reactionary energy policy (coal power and discounts for industry), is going nowhere fast with preventing global […]
Climate Crisis
Extinction Rebellion – Climate activists block London bridges in “swarming protest”
Disruption could continue until Saturday as Extinction Rebellion continues climate change protest
Climate Crisis
The Guardian: Avoid London, police warn motorists, amid Extinction Rebellion ‘swarming’ protests
Disruption could continue until Saturday as Extinction Rebellion continues climate change protest Read here