Environment

With the Czech elections around the corner, Green party co-chair Michal Berg explains how the Greens hope to shape the debate.

Spanish MP Inés Sabanés on the country’s unstable politics and the need to re-politicise everyday life.

With projections of climate science now indisputable, many of Europe’s right-wing populist parties are abandoning responses of dismissal and denial in favour of a very different approach. The threat of climate change is increasingly appropriated and reframed to suit a nationalist political agenda.

Over the past decades, Romania has seen successive waves of protests calling for deep reforms of the country’s politics in line with principles of democracy and social and environmental justice. The impact of these protests has been pivotal, reshaping the political landscape by leading to the rise of new parties. Raluca Besliu traces the trajectory that has led Romania to the politics it has today and explains why the country, in many ways, remains an outlier in the region.

Reducing air pollution is vital to protect public health and meet climate targets. Yet policy and action in this area often falls short.

The fight to have ecocide recognised as a crime against humanity is finally yielding results in international law, but enforcement and proportionality remain uncertain.

The challenge for Greens is to consolidate their credibility by building successful green-left alliances and bridging the ecological and the social so as to leave none behind.

Uncontrollable fires rage across the world. What does it mean to live in the Pyrocene epoch?

Environmental destruction is inseparable from relationships of racial and colonial domination.

China’s projected image of ambitious climate actor is contradicted by fossil fuel investments abroad and its prioritisation of economic growth.