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Published: May 2025, The Ecologist The culprit for Monday’s countrywide blackout in Spain is all too familiar: privatisation and profiteering. The anti-net zero brigade has swung into action blaming Spain’s huge, country-wide power blackout on Monday on “too much renewable energy in the grid” and declaring net zero to be “sabotage fueled [sic] by sheer…
Published: March 2025, Novara Media Net zero isn’t dead. In February, BP announced it was undertaking a “fundamental reset” of its investment strategy, savagely cutting back plans for renewable energy and instead investing in 20 new oil and gas projects by 2030. CEO Murray Auchinloss said the fossil fuel giant’s previous 2020 plan of reducing oil production and reaching…
Published: Feb 2025, The Ecologist Is Trump the end of the green transition or the start of America’s decline? It’s all over for the green transition. Donald Trump, the newly elected US president, has withdrawn the world’s superpower from the Paris Climate Agreement, rolled back environmental regulations, ended support for electric vehicle production, is trying…
Published: July 2024, openDemocracy After years of neglect, rural voters are abandoning the Tories and Labour to back a radical green conservation movement Perhaps the most worrying aspect of this year’s UK general election, if the polls are to be believed, is the resurgent far right. Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party failed to win a single…
Published: July 2024, Novara Media It’s the Greens versus Blackrock. The first few weeks of the new Labour government have seen a burst of activity, with a substantive legislative agenda unveiled in the King’s speech. Sleeves are being rolled up as the serious people look to get on with fixing Broken Britain. Labour are intent on…
Authors: Nicholas Beuret, Matilda Fitzmaurice & David HarviePublished: April 2024 The Ecologist How the UN plans on making money from environmental refugees. Environmental disasters to 2022 have displaced more than 30 million people – more than half the total number of ‘internal displacements’. This number has been steadily rising for years, but the states most…
Published: December 2023, The Conversation Climate change is overwhelmingly a problem of wealthy people. The wealthiest 1% of humanity produce over 1,000 times the emissions of the poorest 1%. In fact, these 77 million people are responsible for more climate-changing emissions than the poorest 66% (5 billion people) of humanity. Since 1990, the personal emissions of the world’s wealthiest…
Authors: Elise Lobbedez and Nicholas BeuretPublished: November 2023, The Ecologist Lessons we can learn from the emergence of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement. The emergence of the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) movement surprised the world as they started occupying roundabouts across France, opening tolls for free, and gathering massively in city centres every weekend to…
Author: Nicholas Beuret Published: June 2023, Novara Media Coastal erosion is forcing people from their homes. “I’ve lived here all my life and I wouldn’t have thought it would possibly have eroded so much and as quickly as it has done.” Kenny Chaney lives in the village of Hemsby on the Norfolk coast. Hemsby has been under…
Environmental Politics Journal Blog | March 2023 The past few years has seen an almost seasonal news cycle emerge in the UK around food supplies in January and February. This year it was given a visible boost by salad crop shortages and rationing in major UK supermarkets. Supermarkets and major news outlets cried weather, while…
Published: Feb 2023, The Ecologist The extraordinary environmental costs of freeports. There is growing evidence of a series of marine die-offs connected to dredging around the UK, connected to the Tory freeport agenda, that the UK Government attempted to cover up. Almost 18 months ago there was a mass marine die-off neat Teesside in Yorkshire, that appears…
Published: Nov 2022, The Ecologist The end of 1.5C and the question of loss, damage and hope. The 27th Conference of the Parties climate talks have started in Egypt. World leaders come into this round of climate negotiations with no credible plan to stay below 1.5C of climate change, with no substantive improvements on the previous pledges…
Published: March 2022, Novara Media Blockades get the goods—and history proves it. All the pledges, promises and plans for tackling climate change have fallen short. Despite decades of mobilisations, protests and campaigns, the best the climate justice movement has secured is the promise that governments will limit future global warming to a disastrous 2.1C. Emissions, after a…
Published: November 2021, Novara Media We’re caught in a vicious cycle – and getting out won’t be easy We are into the era of hard climate choices. The low-hanging fruit of climate action will be exhausted within a decade, leaving only those hard-to-transition industries and transformations that will radically change our everyday lives. And it’s likely…
Published: October 2021, Novara Media Say hello to a green new deal for business. In the final few days before COP26 starts, there’s been a rush of policies and pronouncements from governments setting out how they aim to ‘close the gap’ between current carbon emissions and reaching net zero emissions by 2050. For the most part,…