Sustainability
We sat down with Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP and economist, to discuss the EU’s sustainable finance package, alternatives to the current banking model and the role of speculation in Brexit.
Read moreAn interview on daring to dream and designing economics to regenerate life and community, to thrive rather than to grow.
Read morePublic momentum to tackle plastic waste is strong in the UK, but political barriers stall further progress.
Read moreNow the economy has overshot key ecological limits, more sustainable social protection systems that do not depend on environmentally destructive forms of work must be found.
Read moreAre smart techno-managerial solutions the perfect alibi for resource extraction and inequality in our cities? We talked to author and academic Maria Kaika about the way that green technology so-called solutions are sometimes anything but, and can displace real action.
Read moreCould reforms on the horizon in Greece mean the end of environmental protection?
Read moreThe European Union is far from perfect – from a Green perspective – yet at times when it is threatened, we must rally to its defence as an idea and as a project.
Read moreBigger cities, more wealth and increasingly complex products demand more metallic ores. This is also true for the transition towards sustainable energy.
Read moreIt is vital now to distinguish between the terms “sustainable development” and “degrowth”, as while one has lost meaning, another is more relevant than ever. Written before the start of COP21, this piece sets apart the two and highlights the importance of changing our view of what constitutes a healthy, climate-friendly economy.
Read moreThe UN and EU, taken over by ‘corporate capture’, aren’t doing enough to tackle climate change. Non-governmental organisations are concentrating their efforts on fostering a broad movement that will go beyond Paris 2015, because if governments do fail to deliver, action to tackle climate change will remain essential.
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