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.
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: The epitaph for Tory austerity has been written, and it’s damning
This is what Brexit is really about, but this has been a hand in hand exercise of the British elite and the EU political class. Read here
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
Economics
Adam Tooze: Neoliberalism’s World Order
This is a book review by Adam Tooze of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian. A good historical outline of neo-liberalism. Read here Pascal Lamy, former director-general of […]
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