Podcast: being young in a time of pandemic
In the latest episode of the Feasta/EHFF podcast series 'Bridging the Gaps', we hear from three young people about their experience of lockdown.
Feasta position paper on the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
What can the EU do to prevent carbon leakage - the sabotaging of its climate policy by non-EU industries? This submission provides some suggestions and also places a strong emphasis on international climate justice.
Lessons of 2020
"The COVID-19 pandemic is a test. Are we learning anything?" asks Mike Sandler.
‘Balancing with a Doughnut’: Feasta position paper on the revision of the European Commission’s Energy Taxation Directive
This paper calls for the introduction of a suite of climate-related reforms in the EU that include limiting fossil fuel production and imports at source, placing a limit on carbon fees along with a quota system, introducing per-capita allocations of revenue from a carbon fee, and forming a partnership with a group of Global South countries to promote climate justice.
Psychopathology at the Limits to Economic Growth: An Essay in 3 Parts
"Counterposed to toxic elite priorities, a new politics of environmental protection, energy and resource saving, public health and community mental health is needed. The idea will be that everyone’s basic needs will be met and this protection will have important mental health benefits," writes Brian Davey.
Why Don’t Lions Chase Mice: review
"When Watkins calls for a “brown new deal” he is not in any way denying climate science, he is trying to respond to the impracticality of naive activism, that wants renewable energy systems without recognising that they must be created with fossil fuels and these are not only climate damaging but will be increasingly in short supply," writes Brian Davey.
