How Can Cities Reach Their Climate Goals?
Volume 31, Issue 3 September 2022 A decade ago, the global network of “megacities” known as C40—so named for
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Author: Sean Sweeney
In Everyone’s Backyard? Facing the Challenge of Energy Sprawl
A new international movement is rising. First as a breeze, then a gale. Soon, perhaps, a Category 5 hurricane? What
Read MoreInvisible Hope: What China’s Climate Policy Can Bring to the World
By Sean Sweeney Which country burns more than half of the world’s coal on an annual basis but is lauded
Read MoreGlobal South Unions Search for a “Public Pathway” Approach to Energy Transition
Several decades ago, unions in the Global South were on the cutting edge of societal struggles for democracy, new forms
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Leaping Backwards: Why is Energy Poverty Rising in Africa?
Photo credit: Budapest-Bamako, Flickr How can the world end energy poverty in the Global South and simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas
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Covid, Climate Change: Is the World Ready for “Global Public Goods”?
Covid-19 has provided a stark reminder that today’s world is both scarred by grotesque levels of inequality and populated by
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Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
Photo credit: aqua.mech, Creative Commons In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be
Read MoreMexico’s Wall of Resistance: Why AMLO’s Fight for Energy Sovereignty Needs Our Support
It has been more than two years since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as “AMLO”) began his six-year term as
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A Public Energy Response to the Climate Emergency
Volume 30, Issue 2, Spring 2021 This edition of New Labor Forum features three contributions that make the case for
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Five Years On, the Paris Climate Agreement Needs an Overhaul
Photo credit: John Englart (Takver), Flickr It’s been five years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed.[1] Negotiated in late
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