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Europe’s Real Security Crisis: Why Social And Ecological Protection Must Unite

The EU’s next budget threatens to slash climate transition funds for military spending. But Europe’s gravest security threats already strike inside our borders — killing 62,000 citizens last year alone.

Europe’s Real Security Crisis: Why Social And Ecological Protection Must Unite

How extreme wealth is killing the planet

Donald Trump’s second inauguration made one thing unmistakably clear: billionaires wield incredible influence in this administration.

Onstage with Trump were Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. Six billionaires have been appointed to cabinet level positions with seven more billionaires appointed to high level positions in the administration. It was a Billionaire Coup—one that’s undermining democracy and driving the planet toward ecological ruin.

Billionaire coup: How extreme wealth is killing the planet – The Understory – Rainforest Action Network

Multi-Movement call for Peace over Profit

As the world marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Japan, the ITUC has joined forces with organisations for peace, climate and economic justice in a global call for a new model of common security.

Historic multi-movement call to action: World must choose peace over profit, democracy over destruction – International Trade Union Confederation

Inequality and Climate Crisis

Reducing global inequality and saving the planet from climate catastrophe are intertwined. Let’s address both at once.

The Growing Inequality and the Worsening Climate Crisis

Who owes Who?

External Debt, climate debt and reparations in the Jubilee Year – Report Action Aid

FINAL Who Owes Who – FINAL COPY FOR WEBSITE – 5th Feb 2025.pdf

Climate finance, reparations and human rights

In order to understand the very clear links between different topics …

Key_Concepts_-_Climate_Finance_Reparations_and_Human_Rights.pdf

On the urgent need for debt cancellation

Debt swaps for climate and conservation goals have experienced a resurgence in recent years. As COP29 negotiations kick off, they are presented as a dual solution for debt and climate issues, however they fall short in practice and pose risks that threaten to harm global south countries and communities. This briefing explains why instead of debt swaps, we need urgent debt cancellation and grant-based climate finance.

Debt swaps won’t save us: the urgent need for debt cancellation and grant-based climate finance – Eurodad

Social Protection as a prerequisite for climate justice

Interesting discussion on the ILO’s recent World Report on Social Protection 2024-26

Social protection is a prerequisite for climate justice – Development Pathways

Fossil fuel philanthropy

Pax payer subsidized charity foundations funding climate change desinformation!

Inside the World of Fossil Fuel Philanthropy – Inequality.org

Anthropocene or Corporatocene?

The author  argues that the term ‘anthropocene’ to denote the period of the modern environmental crisis is hollow and a political digression from the reality, and that the crisis is a product of corporate exploitation of the earth’s system. Putting the blame on the entire human society for the environmental crisis is a Western ideological ploy to shield the corporate culprits who have caused the destruction on the strength of their capital and technology. He therefore proposes the term ‘corporatocene’ to mark the epoch of environmental crisis. If anything it is the Western colonization and the invention of the steam engine that are the markers of the start of the pandemic assault on the earth’s natural systems. Obfuscating the debate on this by introducing politically motivated substitutes will only frustrate the efforts to forge meaningful solutions to the climate crisis.

Paper published by the South Center

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