Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: The green growth paradigm has a long tradition – which has never been supportable
l usage. But that pathway is in my view incompatible with the capitalist logic. Read HERE
Sustainability
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – The Carbon Coup: how corporate capture is locking Europe into a fossil-fuelled future
The EU has an obsession with an inefficient technology as a means of reducing industrial carbon emissions. The money could be better spent elsewhere, this study suggests. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Carbon Capture from […]
Climate Crisis
Jodie Keane – New EU trade rules could put poor countries in a billion dollar ‘green squeeze’
A series of new EU rules are set to increase costs for global south companies when exporting to Europe, an approach which is supposed to tackle climate change but may simply increase poverty. Jodie Keane […]
DeGrowth
Branko Milanović – Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In capitalist society there cannot be abundance, only inequality. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World”. His […]
Climate Crisis
GPEnewsdocs: Gilles Billen – Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix
Gilles Billen shows that industrial agriculture, propelled by international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle. This has provoked the crossing of planetary boundaries and endangered the possibility of feeding the world. Alternatives do […]
Climate Crisis
Maria Mesquita, António Assunção – April’s Eleven: Political trial on the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution
Two activists, who are currently facing charges alongside nine others for protesting climate breakdown, argue that we must take inspiration in how to change the system from the revolution which overthrew Portugal’s fascist dictatorship half […]
Food Production
Alex Park – Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
From South Africa to Ukraine, five industrial chicken companies that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Alex Park is a journalist and researcher based in California Cross-posted […]
Environment
Harald Benink, Harry Huizinga, Louis Raes, Lishu Zhang – International trade in brown shares and economic development
Divestment of polluting companies has gained traction as a way for investors to incentivise the transition to a low-carbon economy. Harald Benink is Professor of Banking and Finance and Fellow of the Centre for Economic […]
Aviation
Transport & Environment: Low cost airlines pollute more than ever, latest emissions data shows
More than three quarters of European aviation emissions aren’t subject to a carbon price, new study shows. Read HERE Photo: Public Domain
Climate Crisis
Melissa Garriga – Don’t Let Warmongers Greenwash Their Ecocide This Earth Day
Destruction to the environment and acceleration of the climate crisis happen silently under the veil of “national security,” despite the fact that the environmental toll of war is the most significant threat. Melissa Garriga is […]