Economics and policy

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.

Economist Ann Pettifor predicted the 2008 economic crash. And predicted a 'shuddering shock' just ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Find out what she sees coming next...

Pre-covid life is unlikely to return in an environmentally unstable world. But our economic theories have yet to adapt to this new normal.

Corporate profiteering and state repression in Nigeria’s Oil Niger Delta must end as part of any just Green New Deal.

The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.

The campaign to halt climate breakdown ecological destruction is bound up with the fate of the world’s Indigenous peoples.