Green New Deal
This call is for a journalistic summary of various workshops held during a conference on the Global Green New Deal, a sectorial three-day conference, which took place last year in Brussels. The workshops were recorded and will be made available to the author. The content of the audio files is to be compiled into a summarising text to be published on the website of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels. The aim is to make the results of the conference comprehensible and accessible to an interested public. The variety of topics of the workshops ranges from Just ...
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A vision for achieving climate, social and economic justiceThe prevailing neoliberal global economic system has put societies and nature in a threatening situation. Despite decades of promises to end extreme poverty, to fight world hunger and provide a decent life for all, to mitigate the climate change and the extinction of various species, the economic policy of exploiting nature, resources and people continues to drive the global economy and destroy the foundations of life on the planet and the planet itself. Instead of improvement of living ...
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Abstract
The European Green Deal is fraught with fundamental flaws that make it unlikely to properly contribute to addressing the key challenges of our times, from the need for a fair and just recovery, to tackling the health, social, climate and environmental emergencies. In a recent report, Counter Balance is proposing another approach to EU public investments and the financing of the Green Deal, one working towards the decarbonisation, de-financialisation and democratisation of our ...
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During the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, 24 countries and a number of car manufacturers adopted a declaration pledging to phase out internal combustion engines by 2040 (or earlier). While this is a commendable initiative by the signatory states and a first step in the right direction, it makes the silence about the necessary expansion of public transport all the more deafening. The coalition agreement of Germany's new federal government, too, has virtually nothing to say on the subject of public transport. This is a serious problem...
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On 21 October, the Copenhagen-based Democracy in Europe Organisation (DEO), along with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office, hosted a forum on the challenges of a socially just transition to clean energy, with former Copenhagen City councillor Ulrik Kohl. Kohl, a researcher on community energy in the Nordic countries and Southeast Europe with Malmö University and Roskilde University, spoke about the role of the left and communities in organising grassroots, working class alternatives to the capitalist Green Deal.
The idea of a ...
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A big deal for fair climate protection or just the latest version of the capitalist model?The Green New Deals are among the few specific proposals setting out how the transition to an environmentally friendly society could happen within a relatively short period without this transformation hitting the most vulnerable members of our society. While they do have their weaknesses and blind spots, they have succeeded in one thing: over the past two years, they have managed to create a new narrative which, beyond all the warnings of disaster, preserves hope based on opportunities for ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen 40 million people moved into short-time work across the EU, and over 16 million are now unemployed, 2 million more than a year earlier, before the pandemic hit. Aside from the impact of COVID-19, in-work poverty has also been on the rise for years, meaning that more and more people cannot make ends meet despite being in work. One in 10 workers falls below the poverty threshold, equivalent to a 12% rise in recent years. One of the main reasons for this development is rising ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is currently dominating our lives in every respect. Public discussion revolves around the pandemic and how to deal with it, which is understandable given its huge economic and social impact. Yet we are not just dealing with the effects of the pandemic; we are seeing very far-reaching structural changes in the social production process, too. These are primarily related to environmental challenges, especially climate change. Production based on fossil fuels no longer has a future. At the same time, the contradictions inherent in the ...
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