From Promoting Economic Pluralism
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself …
FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? – Bill McKibben Read More
This elections year, it is hard to imagine that European citizens will be satisfied with shallow political promises: they are furiously standing up against business as usual. All over Europe, …
The power of democracy against the power of finance Read More
Dimitri Zenghelis explains why Paul Romer’s theory of endogenous growth can be harnessed to direct and design a net-zero-carbon future while using William Nordhaus’s DICE and RICE models may already …
Nobel for Economics 2018 – a question of imbalance Read More
On the day of its AGM, a group of investors are calling on Italian bank, UniCredit, to start taking climate change seriously. In an action coordinated by responsible investment charity, …
Investors give Italian bank a wake-up call on climate change Read More
Heat waves are covering wider areas, and people are suffering the consequences. With 2°C of warming, most summers will look like 2018, scientists say. Click here to read full story
Extreme Hemispheric Heat Waves Like 2018’s Growing More Common with Climate Change, Study Says Read More
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics – the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what …
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years Read More
The ratings agency warns of possible credit downgrades, while the UK’s auto lobby says ‘anti-diesel’ agenda has made targets harder to reach Click here to read full story
Carmakers on course for $2-12bn fines for missing EU CO2 targets: Moody’s Read More
The American Petroleum Institute spent over half of that total on contracts with the PR giant Edelman, says Kert Davies of Climate Investigations Center. Click here to read full story
Fossil Fuel Trade Associations Spent $1.4 Billion on Ads in Past Decade Read More
An ambitious report on the global food system from a commission convened by the prestigious medical journal The Lancet calls for a radical change in food production—or, as one of …
Global Commission Calls for a Food Revolution to Solve World’s Climate & Nutrition Problems Read More
UN Climate Change, 15 January 2019 – The provisional program for Africa Climate Week 2019, which is being hosted from 18–22 March in Accra, Ghana, has now been published online …
Ghana to Kick-start Year of Ambition at Africa Climate Summit Read More