Big Oil Can't Be Trusted to Define the Terms of A Carbon Tax Solution

Big Oil knows the game is up, but they still want to manage the process, slow down the green transformation and limit its impact on their profits. It's only slightly incredible to think that oil corporations may now be choosing to put Planet Earth first.

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In Crisis Britain, The Conservative Government's Slow Collapse Defies Gravity

It is a commonly held belief that the U.K. government is collapsing, yet it somehow limps on, despite social, economic, corruption and democratic crises.

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There was Progress at the Global Climate Summit. Now Urgent Action Is Needed.

Host Fiji drove meaningful progress at COP23, but the annual conference has succeeded within an international negotiation context that moves too slowly – mainly due to large industrial nations reluctant to rapidly transform their energy economies.

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Germany's Coal Problem: A Growing Question Mark At the UN Climate Summit

Many agree that Germany's continued mining of lignite coal – the dirtiest type there is – undermines its green image. This past week, the Greens in Germany abruptly dropped their commitment to stopping coal and reducing car emissions.

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COP23 Opens With New Global Leadership Emerging Against Climate Change

Fiji and other vulnerable island nations have set out the necessary steps to keep global the temperature rise below 1.5 degrees celsius. This includes going further and faster than the historic agreements made in Paris in 2015.

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A Constitutional Impasse: What's Next for Catalonia and Spain?

Within the Spanish constitution, the Catalonian referendum was not legal – but this doesn't mean it was illegitimate. Pro-independence parties won a majority in the last Catalan elections, supplying the mandate for an independence vote. So what happens now?

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Letter from Girona: The Day Spain Lost Catalonia

On Tuesday, Catalonia staged a general strike against last weekend's violence. The government is expected to issue a statement of unilateral independence if a Yes vote is confirmed.

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Spanish Attacks on Democracy Strengthen Case for Catalan Independence

Many of those organizing the referendum have been arrested and more detentions are expected before Sunday's crucial vote.

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Citizen Debt Audits are Challenging Big Finance in the U.K. and Beyond

For citizen debt audits, the only way to challenge the power of banks is to reveal their crimes – then build a public movement that mobilizes around the injustice, demanding the public money be spent in the public interest.

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Activists Demand Climate Refugees Be Recognized

A 2015 tidal surge caused the sea to flood across the islands of Kiribati, the small Pacific island nation chain of atolls that could be the first national homeland lost completely to climate change.

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