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
Sustainability
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
Climate Crisis
Sofía López, Bram De Botselier, Simon Schunz – The EU talks big on protecting the Arctic, but it continues to prioritise economic interests over the environment
The Arctic is one of the world’s most environmentally fragile regions, but it also offers substantial economic opportunities. This has led many states and companies with an interest in the region to promote a policy […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Renewable gas lobby exposed as misleading ahead of EU 2050 Climate Strategy
Ahead of the European Commission announcing its ‘2050 Climate Strategy’ for complying with the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) today released a two-part briefing (Part I, Part II) on […]
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor – To Secure a Future, Britain Needs a Green New Deal
The Climate Change Crisis has reached such dangerous proportions that we all have to alter our mode of living and thinking. We at BRAVE NEW EUROPE too, will in the future (actually we began a […]