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Aviation

Transport & Environment: Pay €2 to greenwash a flight to New York with UN aviation scheme

October 4, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

ICAO, the UN body tasked with cutting global aircraft emissions, uses a system of purchasing emissions offsets that has so far proven totally ineffective for reducing aviation’s climate impact. New analysis by T&E shows that […]

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Climate Crisis

Transport & Environment: Food vs fuel: Europe burns 19 million bottles of sunflower and rapeseed oil every day in cars

June 26, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Corporate profits are the goal of the EU, not the common good or environment Read Here

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Climate Crisis

Transport & Environment: MEPs opt for weak car targets in blow to affordable EVs and the climate

May 11, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

EU Parliament must support more ambitious 2030 target and interim 2027 goal to drive down electric car prices and help countries cut their transport emissions. Read Here

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Climate Crisis

Transport & Environment – True cost of Big Oil’s profits: Trillions in unpaid health and environmental costs

May 1, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

BP, Eni, Repsol, Shell, and TotalEnergies have paid back just 5% of the €13 trillion in societal and environmental debt. Read Here

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Climate Crisis

Transport & Environment: Food crisis: Europe burns equivalent of 15 million loaves of bread every day in cars

March 26, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Europe’s biofuels lobby is pushing for more crop burning despite collapse in supplies of key grains from Ukraine and Russia and impending global food crisis Read Here CC BY 3.0

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Transport & Environment: Taxpayers face €9bn bill for fuel tax cuts skewed towards the rich, study finds

March 22, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

In EU, richest drivers will receive eight times more public money than poorest. Read Here Photo: Pp391 licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

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Climate Crisis

Transport & Environment: Shipping carbon price loophole lets millions of tonnes of CO2 off the hook

January 13, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU’s “Brown Deal” makes it possible Read Here

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Climate Crisis

Transport & Environment: In tests, cars powered by e-petrol pollute the air as much as petrol

December 8, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Running cars on e-fuels, which have been touted as a way to prolong the life of the internal combustion engine, will not alleviate air pollution problems. Read here

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Climate Crisis

Transport & Environment: Trucks still breaking EU’s legal emission limits in on-road tests

November 8, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Automotive industry opposition to new emission standard could lead to thousands of avoidable premature deaths. Read here

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Energy

Transport & Environment: Gas truck as bad for the climate as diesel in on-road tests

October 15, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Trucks powered by LNG are a dead-end for cutting climate emissions and emit more cancer-causing particles. Read here

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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington are authors of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies.  They launched their book with […]

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