Environment
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China will no longer build overseas coal power plants – what energy projects will it invest in instead?
By Yixian Sun Chinese President Xi Jinping recently announced at the UN General Assembly that China “will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad”. Chinese banks have already swung into gear. Three days after Xi’s speech, the Bank of China...
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Can we really grow our way out of the ecological crisis?
By Nick Langridge There is overwhelming consensus that the world is in the midst of an ecological crisis: Greenhouse gas concentrations are at a three-million year high (Willeit et al., 2019), species extinctions are occurring 1000 times faster than before...
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The Dasgupta Review - Strong words but short-term actions
By Nick Langridge The Dasgupta Review on The Economics of Biodiversity, commissioned by the UK government, was finally released earlier this month. Led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, the Review claims to provide an “Independent Review on the Economics of...
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A new style of development reporting? Pope Francis’s love letter to the Amazon
by Séverine Deneulin Originally published on Oxfam Poverty to Power platform. On the 12th February, Pope Francis released Querida Amazonia, a poetic love letter to the Amazon region and its peoples, and from them to the whole world. The letter is one outcome...
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Come to your senses! Time to Value Care to make ecological decisions
by Aurelie Charles In the winter of the Northern hemisphere or the summer of the Southern hemisphere, if you open your window together with your senses for five minutes, there is something obvious. Flowers are blossoming in the winter, and...
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An Assault on Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
By Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Ricardo Verdum, Anthony Bebbington The Amazon basin is home to over 385 indigenous groups, including 71 groups living in voluntary isolation, and the world’s largest intact tropical rainforest. These two facts are not unrelated. Indeed studies...
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Challenges in crafting Citizens’ Assemblies for local responses to the climate emergency
By Susan Johnson Effective campaigning by activists such as Extinction Rebellion and Youth4Climate Strikers has led a number of municipalities, town and district councils to declare climate emergencies. Among Extinction Rebellion’s demands is that of using Citizens’ Assemblies (CAs) to...
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Investigating the environmental impacts of artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone
By Roy Maconachie,Thomas Kjeldsen and Lee Bryant In many African countries, the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector is largely informal, generating pressing environmental and health impacts. Together with colleagues (Dr Solomon Gbanie, Kabba Bangura and Anthony Kamara) from the...
