Kevin Anderson, a professor of energy, has said the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels is no longer viable. Anderson made this “very depressing statement, as he described it, the central point of his keynote speech at the National Emergency Briefing ...
A new book by Thea Riofrancos called, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, shows how the push for critical minerals like lithium and cobalt is creating a new wave of mining while perpetuating old patterns of exploitation and environmental destruction. She writes: The energy trans...
London-listed miner Pensana has abandoned its planned £250 million rare-earth refinery near Hull, opting instead to build the facility in the United States, despite being the “poster child” of the UK’s critical minerals strategy. The strategy was an attempt for the UK to be part of a suppl...
A UN report has directly blamed the state and mainstream political parties for engineering a “welfare dystopia” of surveillance and control that is deliberately fuelling the rise of the far-right. The report, Far-right populism and the future of social protection by UN Special Rapporteur o...
The UK’s arms trade is an example of strategic policy choices that repeatedly choose American and Israeli interests above all. At least, that’s according to recent analysis from the New Economics Foundation podcast featuring Khem Rogaly and David Wearing discussing Britain’s role as an arm...
A bilateral investment agreement was signed recently by India and Israel, with Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich even travelling to New Delhi for it. However, notably, Smotrich is banned from entering the UK for inciting violence in the West Bank. During the signing ceremony, Smotr...