Resources

With the European Green Deal, the EU falls into a pattern of relations based on exploitation with Africa, risking to further sour relations.

Nathan Awuapila outlines the effects and challenges climate change is creating in Nigeria.

Drawing on the experience of the Alaskan oil fund, this interview unpicks the links between basic income and ecological sustainability.

While green tech promises to save the planet through connectivity, the digital economy’s material demands are increasingly unsustainable.

Despite optimistic belief, technology is no panacea for Earth’s crisis. A review of Guillaume Pitron’s The Rare Metals War.

What are the different ways resources can be managed and what different outcomes does it lead to?

The case of the small village of Trun in Bulgaria – threatened by a new gold-mining project – is a stark illustration of how the interests of biodiversity, nature and ordinary people living in the area can simply be dismissed. A proliferation of such projects could have a serious impact on the ecology of the entire region, as well as contributing to a global impact on the climate.

International environmental policies focus on safeguarding renewable natural resources. Little attention, however, is paid, to the much more difficult problem of non-renewable natural resources, such as metallic ores and phosphate. A survey of the dilemmas.

Greens need to forge a broad alliance against neoliberalism with some unexpected allies, such as the coal miners. Ahead of COP 19 which takes place this year in Warsaw, Poland how can the green movement in Poland move forward?

Fifteen years ago, the liberalisation of the energy market and passage of the Renewable Energy Resources Act turned Germany’s energy market on its head.