The climate crisis is real. It’s not a drill. If we do nothing, Barcelona and the planet will become uninhabitable for future generations. In an effort to prevent that happening and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis in the city, Barcelona City Council has declared the Climate Emergency, with an action plan and a budget of 563 million euros to implement a hundred different measures. The goal is to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030 in comparison to levels recorded in 1992, and to cut CO2 emissions by two million tonnes.
Finance
GMB Union – Uber agrees to classify UK 70,000 drivers as workers with benefits
Uber has announced that from tomorrow, all 70,000 drivers will be paid holiday time, be automatically enrolled into a pension plan and will earn at least the minimum wage. But the full Supreme Court decision […]
EU politics
Vila Web: Tabula rasa or the end of the European Free Alliance (EFA)?
Germany’s neo-liberal Greens are already corrupting the centre-left in the EU. Read here
Economics
Prem Sikka: The takeover of GKN shows that the UK can’t build a sustainable industrial policy without reducing shareholder power
Does the UK have an industrial policy? Such a question is likely to become more acute as the UK seeks to forge new priorities to compete in the post-Brexit world. An answer can be teased […]
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