Climate Crisis
Alyssa Battistoni – Picking Winners
COP26 and where climate politics is heading Read here
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Climate Crisis
DeSmog UK: Coal Mining Giant to Sponsor ‘Green Energy’ Gallery at UK Science Museum
Campaigners described the newly announced sponsorship deal as “greenwash, plain and simple” says DeSmog, a website devoted to decluttering the debate on climate change. Read here Gautam Adani. Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 via WikiCommons
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Payal Parekh, Carola Rackete – How can the climate movement escalate to shift power?
A look at perspectives for the climate action movement Payal Parekh is a climate scientist turned activist Carola Rackete isa natural scientist and activist Cross-posted from Payal Parekh’s blog We remember the moment that it […]
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Thomas Klikauer, Meg Young – Elite Cooperation
A look at elites. Who they are and why and what they do. Thomas Klikauer teaches MBAs at the Sydney Graduate School of Management, Western Sydney University, Australia Meg Young is a Sydney Accountant Cross-posted […]
Aviation
European Environmental Bureau – EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ is unfit and unfair
The European Commission is missing another historic opportunity to phase out fossil fuels in the ‘Fit for 55’ package, leaving the door open for coal, gas and oil to stay in the EU energy system […]
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The Global Agora – Aleks Szczerbiak: Donald Tusk returned to Polish politics. Does he know what he is doing?
Donald Tusk has returned to Polish politics. Does he know what he is doing? Not entirely says Aleks Szczerbiak who doubts that Tusk can appeal to uncommitted voters at The Global Agora Listen here
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr: Trickery in Climate Neutrality – How Net Zero is Secretly Being Redefined
The crux is that corporations and governments will leave out no tricks and lies to give the impression that we are well on our way to halting climate change, while doing too little or nothing. […]
Corruption
Transparency International EU: EU civil society organisations and trade unions call for urgent corporate tax transparency plan rethink
The corruption in the EU appears to be limitless. Read here
Climate Crisis
Öko Institute – Land use in the EU Climate Target Plan 2030: Ecosystems are more than carbon reservoirs
Carbon sinks such as forests are taken for granted and assumed to be a panacea, but once again the EU has no plans for increasing or maintaining these The Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology) is […]
Climate Crisis
Yannis Dafermos, Daniela Gabor, Maria Nikolaidi, Adam Pawloff, Frank van Lerven – How to decarbonise the ECB’s monetary policy
Cross-posted from the New Economics Foundation For some, money is the “root of all evil”, while others have suggested “money is power”. What is definitely true is that our economy simply cannot function without it. […]