Economics and policy

Coronavirus demands that we work together to save lives - so does climate breakdown.

International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts year-on-year reduction of around 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from energy use because of coronavirus.

Recovering from this pandemic is an immense opportunity to reshape our economic systems and our relationship to the natural world.

The psychosomatic effects of this pandemic will be carried in our bodies and will redefine our relationships with ourselves, others and the Earth.

We must push for social and climate justice to be at the heart of recovery efforts as big capital works out how to profit from Covid-19.

BP offers business-as-usual dividend payout despite historic drop in profits.

'This is retail Armageddon.' Fast fashion faces collapse as people switch to necessary products like food during the coronavirus shutdown.

A comprehensive Green New Deal restores local jobs, benefits communities is effective in the fight against environmental breakdown.

Day of action calls on governments to cancel debt payments extracted from lower-income countries now hit by coronavirus.

Covid-19 exposes the inherent fragility of our globally interconnected economic systems and the inequalities that they perpetuate.

The third in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.

The second in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.

The first in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from the podcast Political Economy for the End Times.

New critical guide to degrowth argues that we can improve people’s lives simply by sharing what we already have more fairly and investing in public goods.

We're not just dealing with a pandemic, but with systemic breakdown. We need to see change that puts people before profits.