debating progressive politics in Europe and beyond
By announcing a tax on CO2 emmissions, Julia Gillard’s Australian Labour Party has taken on the fight of its political life. Finally, the battlelines are drawn, and the contours of the political debate in Australia in 2011 are clear. It’s not an overstatement to say that Julia Gillard’s Labour government has embarked on the fight [...]
The year 2010 was a successful year for environment protection efforts within the framework of the United Nations. At the end of October the conference on the Convention on biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan, led to a successful outcome. The intense negotiations resulted in the ‘Access and Benefit Sharing Protocol’ (ABS), a strategic plan for 2011-2020 [...]
The cosmopolitan ethos is in bad shape, yet transformational politics overwhelmingly depends on our ability to govern on many different levels Today, crises are everywhere. The financial and economic crisis of 2008 spiralled into a fiscal crisis, and the subsequent debt crisis has enveloped the eurozone in an outright fight for its survival. Conventional wisdom [...]
Parts of the labour movement still have strong reservations towards measures aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of production in order to mitigate global warming. The public debate is dominated by fears that environmental policies harm the working population in the North as well as in the South by increasing unemployment. In line with this [...]
In a few days the next Climate Change Conference will start in Cancun, Mexico, and even if a comprehensive global agreement will not be signed, a package of decisions for climate protection must be delivered. After the setback in Copenhagen last year, it is of great importance to reach substantial progress to keep the climate [...]
All Content