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Carbon Brief – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
A breakdown of what was actually agreed at Cop 30: Not an impressive list at all. Read the article HERE.
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Michael Roberts – COP 30: it’s no joke
COP30 was devastatingly horrendous – we are without question heading for disastrous climate breakdown. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger.Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The usual joke about […]
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James Dyke, Johan Rockström – The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality.
The aim now is not to stop climate chaos, it is to limit the damage as much as possible. James Dyke is Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. Johan […]
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Anna Toniolo, Corina Petridi, Pierluigi Bizzini – Boosted By Floods: Private Insurance in the Climate Emergency
As floods become more common in Europe, the cost of insurance grows, a financial burden that weighs heaviest on those with least. Anna Toniolo is a freelance journalist and a member of the FADA Collective. […]
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David Goeßmann – Rich Countries at COP30 Are Robbing the Global South of Climate Financing
Loans, accounting tricks, private investment, and meager pledges undermine a key tool for addressing climate crisis. David Goeßmann is a journalist based in Berlin/Germany. He has worked for several media outlets including Spiegel Online, ARD, […]
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José Álvarez Díaz – When it comes to forest fires, austerity kills
2025 is the first year that a million hectares were burnt in forest fires across Europe, but as the scale of the problem grows the scale of public resources to tackle it does not. José […]
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Bill McKibben – There’s Nothing Fair About It, But the Global South Is Leading the Way on Climate
The rich world—represented mostly by the US, though with parts of Europe and Canada playing supporting roles—has decided that if anyone’s going to deal with climate change it’s not going to be us. Bill McKibben […]
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Lauri Myllyvirta – China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
China’s rapid transition to being a solar-powered industrial economy is one of the only sources of hope that the worst of climate breakdown can still be prevented. Lauri Myllyvirta is lead analyst at the Centre […]
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Jawad Khalid – The Global South Is Drowning in Climate Debt
The global south is taking the brunt of extreme weather driven by climate-change, despite pumping the least CO2 into the atmosphere, while at the same time it has to respond to disasters by deepening its […]
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Branko Milanovic´: As Neoliberalism Crumbles, It Becomes More Destructive
Interview with Branko Milanovic´concerning his new book “The Great Global Transformation” Read Article HERE