COP30 laid bare the gap between the severity of the climate crisis and the political will of countries to confront it concretely.
COP30: isolated advances amid major omissions
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Just Transition
Public funding of collective transport is the only sustainable future
The lack of innovative government policies over the last decade has deepened the transport sector crisis we see today.
COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics
COP30 summit in Belém was a failure that highlighted the growing chasm between international climate policy and the reality of a warming world.
Green Colonialism and the Just Transition
The just transition is a class issue, so it means we need to talk about capitalism.
Just transition requires social dialogue and protection
Trade unions in the mining sector are in a unique position when it comes to the just transition.
UN treaty to curb corporate impunity delayed
There is a growing push for a legally binding international framework that holds corporations accountable for human rights violations.
JUST PROFIT NOT JUST TRANSITION
IN THE SPACE OF A YEAR AND A HALF, South Africa has agreed to borrow billions of rand in foreign currency. This is for a programme of economic restructuring on the basis of a Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP). Unions and civil society have been...
FINANCING PUBLIC ENERGY PATHWAYS FOR ENERGY TRANSITION AND CLIMATE PROTECTION
WE NEED TO DEVELOP a perspective and strategy for financing a public pathway to an energy transition; it must be capable of addressing energy poverty and climate protection. The current neoliberal approach to climate finance is based on loans, whether at...
THE JUST TRANSITION IS THE TASK OF AN ACCOUNTABLE STATE
JUST WEEKS BEFORE THE BEGINNING of COP27, Inger Anderson, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, made a staggering assessment of the global response to the climate crisis: “We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over....