Category: Environment
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Global Trade in Renewable Energy Assets Soars
Secondary market transactions are a common feature of Public Private Partnerships (Whitfield, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2019) and are now a core element of the renewable energy sector as detailed in … Keep reading »
Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition
More than two years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – and now alongside the catastrophic consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – a “new normal” has emerged. This … Keep reading »
Climate Justice March in South Korea
On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation’s largest climate justice march. The sheer turnout of people from … Keep reading »
Marx, the ‘Metabolic Rift’ and Capitalism’s Assault on Nature
In recent years millions of young and working-class people have engaged in protests against the climate and ecological crisis as devastating wildfires, heat waves, droughts, hurricanes and floods have increased … Keep reading »
Financing the 30×30 Agenda for the Oceans: Debt for Nature Swaps Should be Rejected
1. At the UN Biodiversity Conference, or COP-15, the post-2020 framework will likely endorse the target of declaring 30% of the world’s land and oceans as protected areas by 2030. … Keep reading »
The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy – it’s adding to it. Keep reading »
Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery
The following commentary was written by Marxist economist, politician and former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis. He follows the first part of the debate “Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and … Keep reading »
We 8 Billions, Their $215 Trillion
As expropriative, exploitative agriculture, industry, and militarization have reduced science to dependent positivist-mechanism, human biological reproduction has expanded enormously. Narrow growth priorities have left the complex forms of reproduction required … Keep reading »
Drought, Heatwave and Revolution
Global warming, extreme severity of drought in Europe, heatwaves, snowball effect (or cascading reactions) among all these crisis factors… Risk of sudden changes in ocean circulation with incalculable consequences… This … Keep reading »
Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Victims of Climate Change
An interview with Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey. Keep reading »
COP27: Still Fiddling While the World Burns
COP 27, which will meet from the 6th – 18th November 2022, unfolds against a backdrop of growing climate chaos and ecological degradation. As this latest Conference of the Parties … Keep reading »
What African Governments Must Fight for at COP27
We the African People: In solidarity, stand as women, men, youth, peasants, social movements, community- based and civil society organisations as a united front against the multi-dimensional crisis that is … Keep reading »