Climate Crisis
Danny Dorling – How the rich fuel climate change
A short, but well done piece by the BBC featuring Danny Dorling. Watch here
Sustainability
Economics
Richard Murphy – The Goals of Economic Policy
British economic policy framework leaves a vacuum of responsibility for delivering an economy in which people can flourish. In response, Professor Richard Murphy outlines an alternative set of goals for economic policy. Richard Murphy is Professor of […]
Climate Crisis
Kai Whiting and Luis Gabriel Carmona – The hidden carbon cost of everyday products
Andrey N Bannov / shutterstock Kai Whiting, Universidade de Lisboa and Luis Gabriel Carmona, Universidade de Lisboa The targets set in the Paris Agreement on climate change are ambitious but necessary. Failure to meet them […]
Climate Crisis
Digiconomist: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
The entire Bitcoin network now consumes more energy than a number of countries, based on a report published by the International Energy Agency. Read here
Economics
Kate Raworth – A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
Kate Raworth’s TED Talk on the Doughnut Economy Watch here
Climate Crisis
Positive Money – A Green Bank of England
At an international conference of financial supervisors, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney described the ‘transition in action’ underway as central banks and the financial sector at large begin to address climate change. Positive Money’s […]
Economics
George Monbiot: The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it
The Tories eeclared they were preparing a new, robust environmental policy. The result is the usual neo-liberal rubbish. Everything is reduced to its monetary value. Whoever still has a connection with nature knows this is […]
Climate Crisis
The Guardian: ‘From coal to clean’ – UK does not need to turn to gas, says WWF
A World Wildlife Foundation report suggests renewables, battery storage, and flexible technologies can replace coal plants, without having to introduce gas power plants to cover the transition. This is something new. Read here
Climate Crisis
Tim Radford – Tourism’s climate footprint soars
With regard to climate change, this is an aspect which is gladly ignored. Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 years, for most of that time as […]
Environment
ICCT – How to think about vehicle bans: An update after two major European judicial decisions
This article may be somewhat overly optimistic. There has been no real change up to now. Even in the United States Volkswagen could buy driving rights for its diesel powered cars. By Drew Kodjak, Executive […]