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Assessing the Green House Gas Impacts of Waste Incineration

The UK Without Incineration Network has published a good practice guide which provides recommendations for assessing GHG impacts of waste…

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How the UK Climate Change Committee steals from the carbon budget

This article by Peter Somerville, and its preface by Simon Pirani, first appeared at People and Nature. With the COP…

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Changing minds about incinerating residue waste

A guest post by Betty Hales, Chingford resident, retired Headteacher and Science Teacher. I grew up in Chingford and have…

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In defence of electrified road transport

Alan Thornett has written a reply to the controversial article by Chirag Dahara and Vandana Singh, first published by Scientific…

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10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear

Writing at Climate and Capitalism, Simon Butler gives ten reasons to oppose nuclear power. The world needs safe, non-exploitive technologies.…

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Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths…

Lithium, Cobalt and Rare Earths- the post petroleum resource race and what to make of it, by Michael Klare, was…

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Fighting Back on Turtle Island

From the International Socialism Journal. Fighting back on Turtle Island: Indigenous sovereignty, the working class and anti-capitalism Brian Champ and…

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Scottish TUC- major new Green Jobs report

A report commissioned by the Scottish TUC and written by Transition Economics estimated up to 367,000 Green jobs could be…

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From the Ground Up 2: Taking Action

From 22-25 April 2021, the COP26 Coalition will host From the Ground Up: Taking Action, our second global gathering for…

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There’s a simple way to make our cities greener – without a wrecking ball

This fascinating article by Phineas Harper first appeared in the Guardian. This week the highest honour in the architecture world…