Green Energy

How to end 'global empire of capital' – New Age
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How to end 'global empire of capital' – New Age

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HUMANITY faces a grim fate because the global ruling class refuses to depart from the capitalist status quo even as their quest to maximize profits intensifies the climate crisis and the prospects of a nuclear war. But with enough solidarity, progressives around the world can build an egalitarian, democratic, peaceful, and sustainable society. That is…

17 Rooms: Rejuvenating the Sustainable Development Goals through shared action | Brookings
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17 Rooms: Rejuvenating the Sustainable Development Goals through shared action | Brookings

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2022 GLOBAL FLAGSHIP SYNTHESIS REPORT Message from 17 Rooms co-chairs Co-chairs, Zia Khan (left) and John McArthur (right), at the September 2022 17 Rooms Community gathering in New York City on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly. Everyone agrees on the need for more and faster progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)….

Australian clean energy industry issues modern slavery warning
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Australian clean energy industry issues modern slavery warning

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In a report this week, Australia’s Clean Energy Council is calling for more local manufacturing of renewable energy products in response to growing evidence of modern slavery in the global clean energy industry. The Guardian reports, Released on Tuesday, the paper said slavery in all supply chains was a global problem. But Australia is on…

It’s not a just transition if clean energy is powered by forced labor
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It’s not a just transition if clean energy is powered by forced labor

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The phrase “just transition” is on everybody’s lips in the aftermath of COP27, but in the race toward cleaner energy, are we losing sight of what justice really looks like?   A closer look at solar panel and electric transport supply chains suggest we may be sidelining human rights as we scale up solutions to the…

More needs to be done to achieve carbon neutrality – Basingstoke Gazette
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More needs to be done to achieve carbon neutrality – Basingstoke Gazette

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I was hugely disappointed to hear of the snubbing of Greener Basingstoke by council leader Simon Bound and his cabinet member for environment Hayley Eachus. Greener Basingstoke’s Climate and Ecological Town Hall Meeting was a wake-up call for Basingstoke and Deane. The excuse offered was laughable: that it had “become politicised by one political party”….