Economics and policy

Teaching children about nature, and about how our economies meet our needs and impact on nature, is now essential.

Tougher rules on fossil fuel investments could help avert economic disaster.

Majority of influential companies and financial institutions doing little or nothing on deforestation - undermining global climate targets.

Billionaires should focus their money on climate change rather than space travel, says public.

'Degrowth' is central to the reversing of flows of natural resources from the global south to the global north.

The failure of the COP26 climate conference reminds us that capitalism is the driver of ecological breakdown. But what does that mean for environmental activists?

Coronavirus was the result of capital's incursion into nature - and will have a profound impact on capitalism itself. Omicron shows the crisis is far from over.

Now is the time to fundamentally transform how our societies produce and distribute energy.

The COP26 conference has failed to usher in a new era where capital is constrained to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown.

Teen activists from Fridays For Future discuss climate anxiety, the billionaire press, capitalism, lobbying - and solidarity.

Why we need a collective narrative and a shift from GDP to low impact jobs to deliver effective solutions to the climate crisis.

And the day after the Glasgow COP. What do we do then?

Conventional economic modelling is far too sanguine about the future given the impacts of climate breakdown.

Books from campaigner Jonathan Neale, economist Ann Pettifor and activist Chris Saltmarsh chart a course for effective climate policy.

A global day of action calling on banks, asset managers and insurers to stop funding climate chaos will take place this Friday, 29 October 2021.