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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionBolsonaro’s empty climate promises for BrazilAs Bolsonaro claims to protect forests, his leadership has allowed devastation of the Amazonian jungle to reach epic heights
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisJoe Biden is in no position to lecture the world on climate changeThe US president’s administration has lots of good rhetoric but little action
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhy do Hungary’s climate change-fearing voters keep electing Viktor Orbán?In a country that’s dangerously susceptible to heatwaves and droughts, there is growing anxiety over the climate crisis
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Published in: Home: AnalysisMexico once led the way on climate policies. Now, it has taken a step backwardsAs it steers towards fossil fuels, the Latin American nation is on a path opposite to the objectives of the Paris Agreement
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Published in: Home: AnalysisIs China taking climate change more seriously than the West?The country has shown that there is an authoritarian path through the climate crisis. We need to follow the democratic one
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCOP26: How the UK started the climate crisisBoris Johnson will soon take on the role of the bombastic host at the UN's climate conference in Glasgow. Don't let...
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Published in: ourEconomy: FeatureCanada’s elections: How the climate crisis is reshaping politicsIn June, Canada became one of the hottest places on Earth – forcing its political parties to confront the realities...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisWill the SNP use its powers to halt exploitation of the Cambo oil field?As Nicola Sturgeon negotiates with the Greens, a controversy over oil exploitation and its implications for a...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe IPCC report shows we must take control of the climate crisisIndividual action won’t change anything, and we can expect nothing from political leaders or profit-seeking...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisSpain’s VOX party and the threat of ‘international environmental populism’In the coming years, we should expect global warming to become one of the major threats from which a ‘European...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTackling the climate crisis must not come at the expense of eradicating global hungerRelying on planting trees to meet net zero targets is not only practically impossible – it risks pushing millions...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEurope’s flooding shows why the green transition must be driven by people-powerIt’s time to stop viewing people as victims of environmental breakdown, and start viewing them as an essential part...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo revive multilateralism, the G7 must make a clean break with the pastWe cannot repeat the mistakes made after the 2008 financial crisis, which hampered progress on climate change and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK aid cuts cast doubt on Boris Johnson’s promise to double climate fundingThe prime minister wants a ‘pile of cash’ for climate action from G7 leaders, but aid experts say the UK has...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe dirty side of development financeThis week, all the public development banks in the world are gathering to make post-Covid plans. But guess who...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe gas trap: how Europe is investing €100bn in fossil fuel infrastructureContrary to the goals of European Green Deal, such investments risk gas lock-in or ending up as stranded assets.
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Published in: HomeBurning injustice: why the California wildfires are a class crisisThe rich paid for protection while the poor burned – is the world facing a similar fate?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionFormerly colonized people can’t breathe. And the IMF and World Bank are to blameIt’s time for a #FeministBailout based not on profit-maximization but care, respect for eco-systems, and solidarity.
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Published in: ourEconomyHow the agricultural lobby is sabotaging Europe’s Green DealIt has already succeeded in keeping binding pesticide reduction goals at bay.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe are doomed if, in the post-Covid-19 world, we cannot abandon non-essentialsInstead of growth and profit-seeking, a new economy needs concepts from Gandhi, Marx, the Zapatistas and the Kurdish...
