Climate Crisis
Al Jazeera – Are Europe’s extreme summers the new normal? What the science says
Climate adaptation is going to be necessary – right now Europe’s economy and society is underprepared. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis
Bob Henson – Unprecedented June heat grips Europe this week
It’s dangerously hot across a large swathe of Europe, and it’s not even July yet. In ‘Yale Climate Connections’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Michael Roberts – Solving the ‘economic problem’
How we can stop runaway climate breakdown while tackling global inequality is perhaps the great challenge of our epoch. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael […]
Climate Crisis
James Dyke, Johan Rockström – The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality.
The aim now is not to stop climate chaos, it is to limit the damage as much as possible. James Dyke is Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. Johan […]
Climate Crisis
Anna Toniolo, Corina Petridi, Pierluigi Bizzini – Boosted By Floods: Private Insurance in the Climate Emergency
As floods become more common in Europe, the cost of insurance grows, a financial burden that weighs heaviest on those with least. Anna Toniolo is a freelance journalist and a member of the FADA Collective. […]
Climate Crisis
José Manuel Cabrero, César Martín-Gómez, Rayder W.L. Laura – The ravaging of Spain’s rural economy has created the conditions for wildfire destruction
Wildfires must be stopped before they happen, and the best way to do that is to end the abandonment of Spain’s rural areas to ensure forests are kept ‘clean’. José Manuel Cabrero is a professor […]
Aviation
Pablo Castaño – Who Really Wins in Barcelona’s Airport Expansion?
Expanding the El Prat airport in Catalonia will be bad for the nation’s ecology and people. Pablo Castaño is a Barcelona-based freelancer specialised in politics and the environment. Cross-posted from the Green European Journal June […]
Geopolitics
Ian Davis – NATO’s Contribution to the Climate Crisis Cannot Be Ignored
Militarism is a disaster for the planet in every way imaginable. Dr. Ian Davis is an independent human security and arms control consultant, writer, activist, and founding director of NATO Watch (www.natowatch.org). Cross-posted from Common […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – The EU’s Dirty Industrial Deal
Your main questions answered about what the European Commission’s so-called ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ is and how it fits into President Von Der Leyen’s ‘competitiveness’ agenda. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group […]
Climate Crisis
Patrick Bond – Climate sanctions against fossil-addicted capitalists
A critical global south perspective on the western approach to ‘climate action’. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE.