Without greater equality, Herman Daly, the pioneer of ecological economics, helped us understand that the environment has no real shot at renewal, writes Sam Pizzigati.
An Economist for the Whole Earth
Category: Climate Change
COP27: Show Marginalized Countries the Money
Globally, as much as $3.8 trillion must be invested every year to hold back global warming, write Peter Schlosser and Michael Dorsey. For comparison, the IMF says $5.9 trillion was spent on fossil-fuel subsidies, in total, in 2020.
COP27: Corporate Courts Versus Developing World
As rich countries move away from dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing countries through trade pacts.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: More Futile Pacific Overtures
Nearly halfway through Biden’s term in office he finally met the Chinese president to discuss the single most important relationship between any two nations anywhere in the world.
COP27: Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm Climate Talks
An analysis of the U.N.’s provisional attendance list shows that 636 fossil fuel lobbyists have been registered at the talks, up 25 percent from last year’s COP26 conference in Glasgow.
COP27: Limits to Growth — Inconvenient Truth of Our Times
The main fears of the Club of Rome’s 1972 study have been reaffirmed, the authors say. But there is still a scenario allowing for widespread increases in human wellbeing within the planet’s resource boundaries.
COP27: The Debt Crisis Hanging Over Global Climate Meeting
Global South countries that are least responsible for the climate crisis are being forced to take on the devastating costs, writes Jerome Phelps.
COP27: Oxfam Sizes Up a Single Billionaire’s Investment Emissions
As the U.N. annual climate gathering is underway in Egypt, Oxfam spotlights the role of big corporates and their rich investors in driving the global climate crisis.
Maximizing Hurricane Damage for the Rich
Sam Pizzigati flags a taxpayer-subsidized insurance program that keeps wealthy people flowing into Florida’s most climate change-threatened coastal areas.
Biden’s Disastrous LNG Export Goal
An environmental watchdog group assesses the climate damage implied by the White House’s plan to send billions of cubic meters of fracked gas to Europe annually until 2030.