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, by BAKER Alexander, STEPHENS Liz
Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island’s first ever category 5 landfall. What makes Melissa so alarming isn’t just its size and strength, but the speed with which it became so powerful. In a single day, it (…)
, by WATTS Jonathan
Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
Almost 60% of billionaire investments are in ‘high climate-impact sectors’, such as mining or oil and gas companies, Oxfam found. Photograph: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
What does the crisis in the coffee industry tell us about global warming? Phil Hearse shows the links between climate, economy and the precarity of workers.
Got a spare £2bn lying around unused? If so, here’s an investment opportunity. Coca-Cola, owner of the coffee shop chain Costa Coffee, (…)
, by GUENTHER Genevieve, WATTS Jonathan
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
A graphic showing a distorted image of a wildfire.View image in fullscreen. Composite: Jesse Winter / Guardian Design
Climate breakdown can be observed across (…)
, by MILMAN Oliver
Two-thirds of the biggest 65 banks increased financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024, walking back climate promises
Climate activists demonstrate outside the headquarters of JP Morgan Chase in New York in 2023. Photograph: David Grossman/Alamy
The world’s largest banks boosted the amount of (…)
, by McCLURE Tess
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
Daniel Janzen has been monitoring insects since the 1970s in Costa Rica’s Guanacaste conservation area. He says he has (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Marxist scholar Michael Löwy, responding to Samuel Farber’s “In Defense of Progress” from the new issue of Jacobin, defends philosopher Walter Benjamin and argues that “progress,” as defined under capitalism, has come to threaten humanity’s very survival.
Samuel Farber’s article “In Defense of (…)
, by CARRINGTON Damian
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
Some companies were ending home insurance in California due to wildfires, says Allianz SE board member. He says that without insurance, many other financial (…)
, by HOLGERSEN Ståle
Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide
I was invited to speak about ecosocialism, at Marxism 2025 in Dublin. There was a lot I wanted to say, so I decided to write down some key points I wanted to share. Here’s the presentation.
1. (…)
, by AFONSO Manuel
2024 was the hottest year on record. Consequently, it was marked by extreme climate phenomena which, in the first weeks of 2025, have already demonstrated that they will not disappear. Consider the brutal fires that swept through Los Angeles in the middle of winter, whilst Donald Trump took (…)
, by Fourth International
The invitation to COP 30 in Belem, Brazil, in the heart of Amazon rainforest, calls for a leap in quality in the mass struggle, the only way to unlock the ecological, social, anti-imperialist, ecosocialist battles.
Social, environmental, and anti-imperialist movements everywhere face the (…)
, by MILMAN Oliver
Noaa says last year was the warmest since records began in 1850 and Nasa concurs: ‘The long-term trends are very clear’
Michael Mullenax, 10, cools off in a mister before a baseball game in Kansas City, Missouri, on 24 June 2024. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP
It was the hottest year ever (…)
, by CARRINGTON Damian
Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows
The average person was exposed in 2024 to an extra six weeks of dangerously hot days. Photograph: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
Climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the (…)
, by ERMIS Shirin, LEACH Nicholas, WRIGHT Matthew
The earth’s climate experienced its hottest year in 2024. Extreme flooding in April killed hundreds of people in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A year-long drought has left Amazon river levels at an all-time low. And in Athens, Greece, the ancient Acropolis was closed in the afternoons to protect (…)
, by PRICE Susan
Adam Hanieh is a professor of political economy and global development at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and the author of a new book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market.
Hanieh told a Global Ecosocialist Network meeting (…)
, by GREENFIELD Adam
On April 2, 2024, a white Briton named Callum Parslow entered the restaurant of a countryside hotel called the Pear Tree Inn, walked up to a dark-skinned man he found eating there — someone completely unknown to him, evidently chosen entirely at random — and asked where he was from. When the (…)
, by DOOLEY Kate
The new system may essentially give countries and companies permission to keep polluting.
Negotiators at the COP29 climate conference in Baku have struck a landmark agreement on rules governing the global trade of carbon credits, bringing to a close almost a decade of debate over the (…)
, by BARNES Jonathan
In Baku, Azerbaijan, the so-called “finance-Cop” was a disappointment. Now, the UN’s framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) is facing a credibility crisis.
A key failure in Baku was about how much money developing nations will be paid for adaptation projects that help communities and (…)
, by CARRINGTON Damian
Despite nations’ pledges at Cop28 a year ago, the burning of coal, oil and gas continued to rise in 2024
There is “no sign” of the transition away from burning fossil fuels that was pledged by the world’s nations a year ago, with 2024 on track to set another new record for global carbon (…)
, by WATTS Jonathan
The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away
People clean the streets on the aftermath of last week’s floods in Valencia, Spain. Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP
Move on. Nothing to see here. Just another ordinary, (…)
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