Economics and policy

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.

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.

Natural resources have been plundered from the global South for centuries - and yet those countries are now in debt. We need cancellations - and also reparations.

Southern countries, rich in minerals, are being forced to even export more resources to sustain the industries of developed countries.

The Polluters Out’s (PO) twitter campaign showed the power of social media in garnering the attention of BP’s chief executive and directors.

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.

We must create an economic ethos that places mutual collaboration above profit.

Trade treaties, comparative advantage and social inequalities.