Ulf Kristersson Sweden's new Prime Minister gestures, in Stockholm, Monday, October 17, 2022
THE decision to scrap Sweden’s Ministry of Environment will have “devastating consequences” for the environment, according to the Green Party.
The new right-wing government has also decided to ditch the country’s pioneering “feminist foreign policy.
The four-party ruling bloc sparked an outcry on Wednesday when it announced there would no longer be a Ministry of Environment.
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
ALASTAIR BONNETT reports on the paradoxes of populist attitudes towards protection of the natural world
