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G20 countries aim their pandemic bailout spending at fossil fuel industries, leaving Paris climate change targets in doubt

Growth often doesn’t benefit the people who need it – a green economy could create 1 million jobs

Italy has been hit hard by COVID-19 and is attempting to jump-start its economy through the Relaunch Decree, a revitalization package of 55 billion euros ($60 billion) that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his cabinet passed...

University of East Anglia The COVID-19 global lockdown has had an “extreme” effect on daily carbon emissions, but it is unlikely to last – according to a new analysis by an international team of scientists...

Guest “We gotta get out of this place” by Eric Burden and the Animals David Middleton Apr 9, 2020Save Lives And Avoid A Catastrophic RecessionBjorn LomborgGetting the facts straight on how to make the world a...

When Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico last Saturday with 155mph winds, hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed and the entire island was left in a total blackout...

China is now well established as the world capital of Duplitecture, with everything from its own rendition of the Eiffel Tower to a mock Venice. But the mock Wall Street financial district, constructed at a cost of $50 billion...

Soaring costs of resource extraction require transition to post-industrial 'circular economy' to avoid collapseA new landmark scientific report drawing on the work of the world's leading mineral experts forecasts that industrial...

GDP stats reveal same brand of unsustainable debt-led growth behind worst financial crisis since Great DepressionJames Meadway, a former UK government policy adviser at the Treasury, has criticised Chancellor George Osborne's...

'Capitalism is torpedoing our prosperity, killing our economies, threatening our children. It must be re-engineered, root and branch.'In The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance, Dr Jeremy Leggett...

Bicycle photo from Shutterstock The bicycle and the automobile were invented in Germany, so the European love affair with both modes of transportation goes back a long time...

Five years after it was first proposed, the deal is relevant now more than ever. So why are politicians dragging their feet?What does a recovery look like? On current evidence it involves an increasingly divided workplace...

We are used to expecting that more investment will yield more output, but in the real world, things don’t always work out that way.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) provides unrealistically high oil forecasts in its new 2012 World Energy Outlook (WEO). It claims, among other things, that the United States will become the world’s largest oil...

Are lower oil prices good news? Not really, if it means the world is sinking into recession.