Environmental justice

The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing

December 2011

The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP's report "Towards a Green Economy" is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system.

Buying the present selling the future

October 2010

Amira Armenta

Considerations from Greenaccord’s VIII International Forum on the Protection of Nature in Cuneo, Italy

Manmohan Attacks Environmental Protection

October 2010

Praful Bidwai

Despite what the government may say about tackling climate change, Indian PM Singh looks set to encourage even less environmental regulation, putting India and the climate at greater risk for the sake of industry.

Dangerous nuclear delusion

May 2010

Praful Bidwai

Small farmers are being driven off their land in Maharashtra to make way for the Indian government's planned "nuclear park" - to be built by the French company AREVA. Yet, nuclear energy is notoriously slow, costly, inefficient and dangerous to develop, as demonstrated by a global decline in...