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02.01.2024
Climate Discourse in the Nordic MediaSociety, Media and Culture

While Scandinavian countries are praised for their climate action, an analysis of the Swedish and Danish media reveals a more complex picture.

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28.12.2023
The Invisible Price of WaterEnvironment

During communism, irrigation systems made the Romanian Plain agriculturally robust, but have since collapsed. Droughts are the new reality.

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22.12.2023
No World Order: Funding Climate JusticeClimate and Energy

Climate finance is on the rise, but it is still nowhere near the scale needed to cover climate impacts and fund the global green transition.

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21.12.2023
Feeding People or the Agroindustry?  Agriculture

The EU Parliament blocked legislation to reduce pesticide use in agriculture. Behind alleged concerns over food safety lie the interests of the agrochemical industry.

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19.12.2023
Balancing Defence and Neutrality: Ireland’s Foreign Policy and the Middle EastPolitics

Ireland, a prosperous Western European nation with a sordid past of colonial subjugation, is in a unique position when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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15.12.2023
Water: From Scarcity to EquityEnvironment

Water wars are not inevitable but the result of bad management.

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13.12.2023
Objects of Political Desire X: Recognition over ResentmentPolitics

The Right enjoys electoral success by exploiting resentment. Why shouldn't progressives do the same?

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11.12.2023
Switzerland Goes Right: “When people feel threatened, they don’t want change”   Politics

Often seen as a happy place shielded from polarisation, Swiss politics is not immune to xenophobia and hostility towards green policies.

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08.12.2023
People or Planet: A False Dilemma Climate and Energy

Progressive green-left coalitions must translate social discontent into grassroots support for a just climate agenda.

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07.12.2023
Who Represents Farmers?  Agriculture

Europe’s biggest farming lobby, together with the EPP, opposes any policy inimical to the interests of large landowners.

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