Tunnel vision A piece on the Silvertown Tunnel by our friend Simon Pirani, first published in The Ecologist. For further analysis also…
Top Economists Hail Chilean Constitution as ‘New Global Standard’ on Climate, Inequality Via Common Dreams. “The world has much to learn from the exemplary process of the convention and the visionary product…
Inside the Democrats’ climate deal with the devil A more negative assessment of Biden’s climate package, from Open Democracy. The new climate package furthers the US’ most profligate…
Carbon emissions from French wildfires hit record Via the Daily Maverick. An aerial view of firemen fighting a forest fire in Saint Magne, in the Gironde region…
Denounce the brutal El-Sisi regime – but don’t boycott COP27 First published on Alan Thornett’s Ecosocialist Discussion website There is a debate emerging, on the environmental left, over whether to…
The latest drought exposes the abject failure of Tory water privatisation From iNews OPINION By Paul Waugh Chief Political Commentator The drip-drip process of a shift to greater state regulation and intervention…
Can ‘green laws’ stop climate change? First published at RS21.org Renton’s article, written from within the legal profession, is a corrective to the ‘legal activist’ view…
Biden’s Climate Act- a potential game changer First published on Alan Thornett’s website Ecosocialist Discussion Joe Biden’s Climate Act – confusingly called the Inflation Reduction Act –…
‘Grotesque greed’: immoral fossil fuel profits must be taxed, says UN chief Also from The Guardian, a report of a remarkably hard hitting speech by Antonio Guterres. António Guterres urges governments to…
Italian factories on strike over extreme heat after worker dies From Italian paper The Local, this report follows the discussion about union solidarity which we posted yesterday. Italian factory workers…