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Who Funds Overseas Coal Plants?
The Need for Transparency and Accountability
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Nepal’s largest hydropower station starts operation
With the completion and operation of the Upper Tamakoshi hydroelectric power station, Nepal has not only resolved a long-standing problem of intermittent power shortages, but also realized the transformation from an electricity importer to an exporter.
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Prosecutors hit anti-pipeline protesters with felony charges to send a message, defense says
One county prosecutor asked oil company Enbridge for reimbursement to help with some of the prosecutions clogging up rural courts.
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Women’s rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today
Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women’s rights at the heart of transnational environmental law.
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Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos
The unexpected may occur, within the quantum perspective assumed by the new cosmology: the current suffering due to the systemic crisis will not be in vain; it is accumulating benign energies that will make a leap to another, higher-order.
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Don’t look up reflects the cynicism of capitalist decay, for better and for worse
A lively debate has ensued over the merits of the film, Don’t Look Up. People on the progressive side of the political spectrum have praised the film for its piercing honesty about the climate crisis which is communicated through the metaphor of an incoming, planet-destroying comet.
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The Production Gap report
Governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits.
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Year in review: China’s climate goals withstand heat
Chinese policymakers have been rapidly developing new climate policies even as major events have threatened to derail them.
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Cuba eyes cooperation with China on clean energy
Facing the challenges of an aging energy infrastructure, Cuba is looking to new energy sources with help from the Belt and Road Initiative to strengthen its power production capacity and move away from fossil fuels.
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Warnings from the Far North
“Breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures” is horrific to contemplate.
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The Nobel Prize winner that predicted a crisis between nature and capital
Since 1901, December has been a time for Nobel Prizes. Only in 1969, as an afterthought, the Swedish Central Bank established the ‘Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel’—a decision that was met with protests by some members of the Nobel family.
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Inegalitarian growth or just degrowth: the IPCC has opened the debate
Twenty-five years ago, “degrowth” was conceived by its proponents as a “buzzword” carrying a vague ideological charge: Serge Latouche and his supporters said they wanted to “change the way people think” in order to “get out of the economy and development”… Today, degrowth is once again being debated, but on the basis of more rigorous premises.
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Gregory T. Cushman – ‘Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History’
In the last two decades it has been common, in Marxist books on ecology, to find discussions of how capitalist agriculture developed an urgent need for fertilisers to solve the crisis of soil fertility in the 19th century.
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The full story of Metabolic Rift: A new format of underground culture by Berlin Atonal [Part 1/2]
In 2020, we were forced to put our lives on pause. Countries were divided from one another; communication between people moved to the more diluted online space. The schedules of jet setters across the world became completely blank, and one German artist passionate about the environment went as far as to say they’d never fly again.
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Sustainable technology isn’t enough to save us
How many minutes till midnight? Two different but related news stories give us a clue.
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They won’t ever find us because our love is bound to the rocks: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2021)
At the U.S. State Department’s Summit for Democracy (9–10 December), U.S. President Joe Biden announced a range of initiatives to ‘bolster democracy and defend human rights globally’.
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Whales will save the world’s climate—unless the military destroys them first
Pentagon documents estimate that 13,744 whales and dolphins are legally allowed to be killed as “incidental takes” during any given year due to military exercises in the Gulf of Alaska.
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COP26 was a failure… the future is in our hands now
What does COP26 mean for the climate movement? simon hannah offers his assessment.
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Stories of resistance
Fighting back against extractivism, false solutions, and social and climate abuse around the world.
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Climate change: Adapt for the future, not the past
Funding for developing countries to address global warming is grossly inadequate. Very little finance is for adaptation to climate change, the urgent need of countries most adversely affected. Also, adaptation needs to be forward-looking rather than only addressing accumulated problems.