The COPs have become a greenwashing farce. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com. Cross-posted from Other News COP29 was always going to be […]
Press release from WMO with the latest data on rising greenhouse gas emissions globally is stark: things are getting worse, fast. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible […]
Farmers in Greece, Spain, Romania, Czechia, and Poland explain why they are on the brink, financially and mentally. Adina Florea is a freelance journalist specialising in labour migration, minority rights, and environmental issues in Eastern Europe. Apolena Rychlíková Apolena Rychlíková is […]
Those with least capacity to cope and adapt to extreme heat suffer the most. Pranjal Pandey, a journalist and editor located in Delhi, has edited seven books covering a range of issues available at LeftWord. […]
Private flights in Europe have increased from just under 120,000 in 2020 to more than half a million in 2022, yet the European Commission has no plans to do anything about it. Fausto Corvin is […]
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 […]
Some of the world’s biggest banks are now back-tracking on prior climate commitments – climate action isn’t just not moving forwards, it’s going backwards. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and […]
Disruptive and sometimes unpopular tactics can contribute to a ‘radical-flank effect’ in climate politics. Shannon Gibson is Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies at the USC Dornsife College of Letters. USC graduate student […]
As Yanis Varoufakis points out “Sunak’s U-turn is a reflection of the total Europe-wide collapse of the market-based, neoliberal consensus on how to tackle the climate crisis. It marks the centre‐right’s new path. And with […]
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has appointed former Shell employee Wopke Hoekstra as the new Climate Commissioner. Hoekstra’s “most noteworthy political achievement regarding climate is as a target of a parliamentary inquiry, where […]
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