The Scottish government yesterday broadly adopted the deeply depressing, profoundly conventional and neoliberal suggestions of the commission that it appointed to advise on recovery from
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Extinction Rebellion: Insights From The Inside
I asked my friend Rupert Read of the University of East Anglia and Extinction rebellion to write the following for this blog about his new
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Natural gas joins the list of stranded assets investments that have cost hundreds oif billions
As the Guardian notes this morning: A multibillion-dollar pipeline of projects aiming to ship gas around the world on giant tankers could be in jeopardy
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Principles for post-Covid Britain: an agenda we can all share
I am a signatory to this statement, published yesterday in The Ecologist. I also had involvement in its drafting, although I am not an author.
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The need for a resilient economy
The Common Weal think tank in Scotland is, in my opinion, the most progressive organisation working on economy ic transformation in the UK right now.
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200 companies have committed to net-zero carbon and said they want a Geen New Deal. Anyone up for seeing if they will commit to sustainable cost accounting as well?
When I suggested that sustainable cost accounting should be required to track the progress of companies towards achieving the target of net-zero carbon emissions I
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Only government can fund the Green New Deal: the deficit obsession has to end
I share this post from the Tax Justice Network blog with permission. There are small points where I would put this emphasis in a different
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Investment in sustainable energy is collapsing just when we most need a Green New Deal
I thought I had found the most depressing news story of the day already, and then I found this, in The Guardian:The Guardian: Investment in
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Time to take the COP 26 talks away from the UK if we are unable to deliver them
The Guardian has the most depressing news story of the day: Vital international climate talks due to be hosted by the UK are expected to
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