Greece to be a debtors’ prison: email exchange
In the interests of transparency we're publishing this exchange of emails relating to the Greek financial crisis.
The Pope Calls for New Global Institution to Protect the Commons, Tackle Climate and Poverty
Mike Sandler, who is heading the CapGlobalCarbon delegation to COP-25 in Paris in December, has just posted an article in the Huffington Post that explains how CapGlobalCarbon would help to achieve the Pope’s vision. …
From our archives: The European project – dismantling social democracy, globalising neoliberalism
This 2003 article by Andy Storey identifies and critiques the priorities of the EU - a very useful overview given the current events in Greece and the TAFTA negotiations. He writes that "in many important respects, and to a growing extent, the emperor that is the European social project has no clothes - it is time to point out this nakedness and to begin the task of rebuilding European regionalism. Such a reconstituted regional model could then also become a building block of a more humane and just global order."
“Even the pope gets it – carbon markets won’t fix the climate”
Good article on the problems with carbon offsets: “Carbon markets are in fact designed to seek out cheap emissions reductions such as HFC-23 destruction over fundamental structural changes to energy systems away from fossil fuels and towards renewables.” But see also Aubrey Meyer’s comment at the end: the root of the problem is that there is currently no “budget” – ie limit or cap – for carbon. …
Up for the Game at Croke Park
Theresa O'Donohue has a memorable blog post on her reaction to a consultation at a recent energy coneference on “Energy Projects – Community and Stakeholder Engagement”. It's encouraging to read how a bit of frank talk can actually lead to more openness to collaboration from all sides.
Framing the Paris climate change summit
Caroline Whyte suggests some re-framing of the climate crisis in order to reveal possibilities for action on climate change that could have widespread positive effects.
