[:en]The top twenty coal banks[:]
[:en][on coalbanks.org] The overall state of the global banking sector’s support for the coal industry is not a pretty picture, with 2013 a record year for coal finance. To really bring home the reality of the findings contained in our latest report on coal finance, we’ve created some attractive visualisations. Once you’ve had a look, we hope the infographics will inspire you to contact the Top 20 coal banks...
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[:en]The Gulf Oil Spill Disintegrated This Island[:]
[:en][on video.nationalgeographic.com] Cat Island was once one of the four largest bird-nesting grounds in Louisiana. But the Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed the mangroves growing there, destroying the root system that held the island’s sediment in place. Since 2010, the 5.5 acre island has been washing away into the Gulf of Mexico, and migratory birds find their home disappearing before their eyes. Published in April 14,...
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[:en]Boom and Bust tracking the global coal plant pipeline[:]
[:en][by Christine Shearer, Nicole Ghio, Lauri Myllyvirta, and Ted Nace on action.sierraclub.org] From 2005 to 2012, worldwide coal-fired generating capacity boomed, growing at three times the previous pace. The increase in the global coal fleet was twice the size of the entire existing U.S. coal fleet. That boom is now busting. In India, projects shelved or cancelled since 2012 outnumber project completions by six to one, and new...
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[:en]Prices fail to reflect fossil fuels’ real costs[:]
[:en][By Tim Radford on climatenewsnetwork.net] The price consumers pay for the fossil fuels we use are appreciably lower than their true cost to society, US researchers say, and by the same logic renewables are seriously over-priced. LONDON | Forget the price of petrol at the pumps. The true cost of any fossil fuel is much greater if social costs are factored in, according to new research. A climate scientist in the US reports...
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[:en]Operations of Capital[:]
[:en][By SANDRO MEZZADRA and BRETT NEILSON in (1/2015) di South Atlantic Quarterly – Extraction, Logistics and Finance] Extraction, finance, and logistics provide strategic conduits of analysis to unearth key logics and trends that otherwise remain obscured in discussions of contemporary capital and capitalism. In this sense, they are more than important sectors through which to observe emerging dynamics shaping the current...
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[:en]Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice[:]
[:en]ICTA UAB has the pleasure of inviting you to the second edition of the summer school on degrowth offered by ICTA and Research & Degrowth, this year with environmental justice as a special focus. The summer school will take place between the 6th and 15th of July at the premises of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and the social centers Can Masdeu (Barcelona) and Can Decreix (Cerbere), France. As a way of refreshing your...
