Invisible Hope: What China’s Climate Policy Can Bring to the World
Which country burns more than half of the world’s coal on an annual basis but is lauded as a “climate
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Global 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
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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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There May Be No Choice but to Nationalize Oil and Gas—and Renewables, Too
Once on the margin of the margins, calls for the nationalization of U.S. fossil fuel interests arebgrowing. Before the Covid-19
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The Final Conflict? Socialism and Climate Change
In its most famous English version, the socialist anthem “The Internationale” invokes “the final conflict” and calls on socialists to
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Weaponizing the Numbers: The Hidden Agenda behind the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform
Among progressives concerned about climate change, few issues provoke as much anger as the knowledge that governments continue to subsidize
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