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What came from COP27? Hot air, fudges and meaningless agreements
By Sam Belton This year’s UN climate conference, COP27, ended just two days before the first football match…
COP 27: Capitalism wants profits before a livable planet
By Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in Canada) The deadly, and frightening, impacts of mounting climate…
China’s heatwave “the most severe ever recorded in the world”
Hong Liuxing, chinaworker.info Temperatures have risen as high as 45C degrees. Extreme heat of over 40C has been…
Bankrupt Pakistan faces the worst floods in its history
By Geert Cool, Left Socialist Party (our sister organisation in Belgium) Pakistan’s poverty-stricken masses face many problems. There…
Lessons from the Lucas Plan: How workers can fight against climate crisis
By Martina Gergits & Paul Gerrard We live in times of crises. The effects of the climate crisis…
US: Climate bill, cowritten by coal baron, makes history
By Meaghan Murray, Socialist Alternative US The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is being touted as the largest climate…
Government’s emissions targets — another Green sell-out dressed up as progress
By Aedan Hamrock In late July the government announced what they claimed was an ‘ambitious’ set of commitments…
Planet burns in record heatwave: Capitalist rulers throw fuel on the fire
By Jonathan Diebold Droughts, wildfires, 40-degree temperatures and thousands of directly related deaths: this is not the apocalyptic…
Protesting Stockholm+50: a socialist planet for the needs of all
By Philipp Chmel & Bill Hopwood-LSP/PSL (ISA in Belgium) & Socialist Alternative (ISA in Canada) On June 2–3…
Emissions targets missed: The reckless climate policies of the coalition government
By Cathal Curran Ireland is to once again set to fall well short of its carbon emissions reduction…
