Molly Scott Cato

We need public ownership of British Energy - to lower bills and address the climate crisis.

Tim Jackson's latest book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism is 'written almost as much in poetry as in prose'.

Taxation - including a carbon tax - can incentivise the transition to a low carbon economy, while reducing inequality and supporting vital services.

GDP does not distinguish between economic activity that adds to social and environmental well-being and economic activity that destroys it.

Capitalism isn't working. We need a Universal Basic Income as we come out of the coronavirus lockdown into the economic - and the climate - crisis.

Boris Johnson heralds leaving the EU as "a defining opportunity…to tear away bureaucratic red tape". What does this mean for environmental regulations?

The Tory government has been caught out in what’s become known as a 'carbon fiddle'.

Animals bred for meat now consume a third of all vegetable crops. This has increased dramatically since a ban on pigswill following the Foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK. But it is an appalling waste. Japan can show the way to feeding pigs our waste food which is safe, argues the Green MEP MOLLY SCOTT CATO

The expected ban on neonicotinoids to protect bees has rightly created a lot of buzz. But will Michael Gove as environment secretary ignore the chemicals industry lobby and retain regulations after Brexit? MOLLY SCOTT CATO, a Green party MEP, counsels vigilance

The only revolution, if we leave Europe, would be an uprising against a raft of EU environmental and social legislation, under the guise of ‘reducing red tape'. This would leave workers, our important nature habitats and the health of our citizens in far worse shape than is currently the case within the EU warns Green MEP Molly Scott Cato

The European Parliament has had a great week, writes Molly Scott Cato MEP - for those who oppose GMOs in food and farming. MEPs voted on five occasions to say no to GMOs, and gave their support to agroecology as the only sustainable way to feed the world.

Air pollution from vehicles is killing tens of thousands of people every year in the UK alone, write Jean Lambert, Molly Scott Cato & Keith Taylor, an outrage set into stark focus by VW's 'test cheating'. The EU's response? To relax tests and allow cars to be more polluting - with the full support of the UK government.

The IPCC's latest report makes a stark contrast with Osborne's recent budget, writes Molly Scott Cato. It was all about sacrificing our future for short term benefit - when as the IPCC makes clear, what we need is the precise opposite.

Claims that we need a 'big society' to fix our 'broken' one are just Victorian throwbacks - we have the business tools to survive; we just need a co-operative attitude to go with them

The French have a much better word for it: 'decroissance'. Using ugly and frightening terms like 'degrowth' won't help pave the way for a new and exciting economics

'Rational Economic Man' can be a useful mathematical construct. The trouble is, far too many economists seem to have taken him to their heart, and now believe him to be real

Why, asks Molly Scott Cato, did it take a volcanic eruption to demonstrate to us the hugely fragile links that hold our modern lives and economy together?

Molly would glady have been tied to the stake with the other Metric Martyrs... but, being that she wasn't, she's keen to point out why weights and measures matter to all

An obsession with celebrity is costing us more than our free time - it has led to a culture in which individual endeavour is the only form of success

Economists have all but forgotten about the source of real wealth - the land under our feet. They do so at their peril

No hairshirt or sandals for Molly this year - she's bellowing carols and splashing the cash (in her local currency, of course)

Carbon trading cannot work. How do we know this? Because economic theory tells us so