MIKE COWLEY welcomes half a century of remarkable work, that begins before the Greens and invites a connection to — and not a division from — nature
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Bridge(town) over troubled waters
ALAN SIMPSON looks to ‘tomorrow’s economics today,’ as found in a new initiative pioneered by Barbados which allows the poorest access to low-cost finance for climate investment programmes
General views of Cantref Reservoir in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, where water levels are low, September 8, 2022
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
JONATHAN TAYLOR appreciates how, for a black British musician, to walk onstage can be a rebellious act
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
Like dictators of the past, Trump is seeking an enforcement agency answering only to him, asserts CJ ATKINS
From tens of thousands left abandoned to a militarised ‘looting’ crackdown, Hurricane Katrina laid bare racial inequities and government neglect, writes NATALIA MARQUES
SOMETIMES you have to look for inspiration elsewhere if you want to get out of a mess. Right now, Barbados would not be a bad place to start.
Its Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, has successfully persuaded global leaders that it’s time to overhaul the archaic rules governing access to global finance.
Dubbed the Bridgetown Initiative, it would reverse the regulatory bias under which the poor have to pay more — sometimes three times more — than the rich for access to climate finance.
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