Archive for the ‘Business & Politics’ Category

• Nicholas Stern: Climate change will create billions of refugees, extended world war

  Lord Nicholas Stern, British economist and academic who is most known for the Stern Review said, during an improvised speech at a Cape Town hotel in South Africa, that if we don’t act quickly and determinedly to address climate change …

• Watch: Vattenfall’s greenwashing campaign continues to face protests

  Last year I reported about Vattenfall, Europe’s third-largest energy company which is entirely owned by the Swedish government, and their latest greenwashing campaign. Their campaign involved a “climate manifesto” to hide their own dirty businesses, and on top of that …

• European cities sign climate change agreement, pledges to go beyond the 20% agreement

  Mayors from 400 cities around Europe have signed the Covenant of Mayors agreement and promised to go beyond EU’s 20% by 2020 energy and climate goals. The whole idea with the Covenant of Mayors pact is to “go beyond” EU’s …

• Obama says he is serious about energy independence

  In a speech at the Department of Energy yesterday Barack Obama said he and the American people is serious about energy independence. Obama also said his proposed American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan “will begin to end the tyranny of oil …

• Green Quote of the Week: James Hansen on Coal River Mountain

  Photo credit: World Development Movement Top US climate scientist Dr James Hansen shares his thoughts about Coal River Mountain and Barack Obama’s coal policy in general in a letter titled: “Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain“. “Coal River Mountain …

• Obama warns of “irreversible catastrophe” on climate, says he will not deny facts

  Yesterday Barack Obama delivered a speech about jobs, energy independence, and climate change as he “will direct federal regulators to move swiftly to grant California and 13 other states the right to set strict automobile emissions and fuel efficiency standards,” …

• Exploding the Myths of “Carbon Offsets”

  Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins. Scratch the surface, however, and a disturbing picture emerges, where creative accountancy and elaborate shell games cover up the impossibility of …

• Tax cuts instead of public transportation in Obama’s stimulus package

  Just days after his inauguration it seems we will see the first letdown from President Barack Obama. In the stimulus package, proposed by Obama, which is designed to ease the financial crisis only 18% of the money will go to …

• Watch: Monbiot meets the chief executive of easyJet

  Photo credit: saba♫dija In the latest of his groundbreaking encounters with the figures whose decisions shape our environment, George Monbiot meets Andy Harrison, the chief executive of easyjet, and takes him to task over the budget airline’s plans for an …

• Ecosocialism and the fight against global warming: An Interview with Ian Angus

  Ian Angus, founder and coordinating committee member of the Ecosocialist International Network and editor of the web journal Climate and Capitalism, is interviewed here by the Greek newspaper Kokkino (Red), which published a slightly abridged version: Let’s begin with a …