Category: Environment
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Corporations Can’t Deliver on Climate: Toward Global Public Goods
COP26 convenes at a time when vastly different visions of climate transition compete for supremacy. Large corporations around the World Economic Forum (WEF) are promoting a “Great Reset” where “stakeholder” … Watch video »
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The Geopolitics Behind Spiraling Gas and Electricity Prices in Europe
Markets do not solve the problem of energy pricing. What is required is planning and long-term investments in infrastructure. Keep reading »
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Climate Hooligan: Ontario Adds to the Climate Crisis
As the International Energy Agency points out in its report last week, how provinces respond to the climate emergency has a huge bearing on whether Canada as a whole will … Keep reading »
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Trade Union Program for a Public Low-Carbon Energy Future
Discussion of the Draft Interim Report and the Program for a Public Low-Carbon Energy Future. Focusing mainly on the power sector, the Program is an attempt to rally the international … Watch video »
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One World or No World. Choose!
The emergence of yet another COVID variant as well as a surge of new infections and restrictions have people wondering if this pandemic will ever end. We’ve known how to … Keep reading »
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Working Class Struggles Against Climate Change
Working Class Struggles Against Climate Change: Union Stories From the Frontline Part of the “Just Transition Hub” at the People’s Summit, Glasgow. Introduction by Irene HongPing Shen (TUED), and Moderated … Watch video »
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Whales versus Militarism: Saving or Destroying the World’s Climate?
The US military is famous for being the single largest consumer of petroleum products in the world and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its carbon emissions exceed those released … Keep reading »
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Why Poorer Nations Aren’t Falling for Green-Washed Imperialism
The world’s wealthiest countries make a big show of fighting climate change without offering poorer countries the finances to switch to renewable energy. Keep reading »
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The Ecosocialist Imperative
Thirty years ago, climate modeling scientists predicted exactly the global events – massive wildfires, intensified tropical storms, flooding and droughts – that we’re seeing right now. The only mistake was … Keep reading »
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COP26 Gives It Up to the Capitalists
The Glasgow Conference (COP26) should have given priority to 1) making good on the promise of the “developed” countries to contribute to the Green Climate Fund, from 2020 onwards, at … Keep reading »
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COP26 Report Back: Climate Justice Activists Speak Out
A panel of international climate justice activists shares perspectives on COP26 and the next stage of our struggle, and afterward answers questions from the audience. Speakers, in order: Maura Stephens, … Watch video »
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COP26: Dangerous Omissions, Amplifying Feedbacks, Human Fatalities
November 2021 saw the 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP26). This year the meeting was held in Glasgow. The COP is the global governing body made up … Keep reading »