Agency says tripling output by 2035 from unconventional gas sources such as shale gas could end support for renewables A "golden age of gas" spurred by a tripling of shale gas from fracking and other sources of unconventional gas by 2035 will stop renewable energy in...
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Gas Rebranded as Green Energy by EU | by Fiona Harvey
Victory for gas lobby as aims of €80bn EU innovation programme altered to channel money to 'low-carbon' fossil fuel Energy from gas power stations has been rebranded as a green, low-carbon source of power by a €80bn European Union programme, in a triumph of the...
EU Greenhouse Gas emissions rise despite Climate Change Policies | by Fiona Richards
European Union's 2010 greenhouse gas emissions rise of 2.4% blamed on cold winter and economic recovery in some areas Greenhouse gas emissions for the European Union increased in 2010, despite the economic recession and policies intended to tackle climate change. The...
The UN’s `Green Economy’ plan is a destructive illusion | by Pablo Solon
Focus on the Global South Pablo Solon was chief negotiator for climate change and United Nations Ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia from 2009 to June 2011. Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro,...
Q & A A Green Economy Without a Pricetag on Nature?
Manipadma Jena interviews Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). YEOSU, South Korea, May 26, 2012 (IPS) - As thousands gear up for the...
Statement: A JUST TRANSITION NOW – NO TO ”GREEN ECONOMY”
To The Swedish Government and all participants at the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. From the Gothenburg Conference: Celebrate! Resist! Transform! for environmental justice and just transition 18th to 20th of May 2012 A JUST TRANSITION NOW – NO...
Behind the ‘Green Economy’ – A new drive to commodify nature by Christophe
Faced with an even more complex and deeper crisis, capitalism is launching a fresh attack that combines the old austerity measures with an offensive to create new sources of profit and growth through the “Green Economy” agenda. No to the Green Economy I. A New Phase...
Building a true green economy | by Sunita Narain
The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth June 5, the World Environment Day, is meant to celebrate the idea of the environment and put it into practice. It is a day to take stock of where we stand and where we should be headed in future. The theme...
‘Green Capitalism’ Bolivia’s warning to Rio+20 Brazil | by Brenda Norrell
Indigenous Peoples will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during June for Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 13 --22, 2012. In the struggle to uphold the Rights of Mother Earth, Bolivia warns of the commercialized "green economy" that seeks to...

