A greener economy can be a fairer economy too, says the Trades Union Congress.
… Unions call for a just transition Marianne … | 11th July 2019 News Climate Emergency Trade Unions Change Makers workers at a recycling … can be a fairer economy too, says the Trades Union Congress. The TUC has published A just …
The Ecologist stands in solidarity with university workers who are taking action and we encourage our readers and other media platforms to do so too.
… and members of the University and College Union (UCU) are taking part in fourteen days … are our struggle as well.” Justice Anti-Trade Union legislation in the UK has restricted our … member. He said: “UCU has backed our joint union campaign for One Million Climate Jobs …
The only revolution, if we leave Europe, would be an uprising against a raft of EU environmental and social legislation, under the guise of ‘reducing red tape'. This would leave workers, our important nature habitats and the health of our citizens in far worse shape than is currently the case within the EU warns Green MEP Molly Scott Cato
… not diminished my critique of the European Union and many of its policies; it is still … on several different levels. The European Union has recognised this concept of ' … ', writing it into the Treaty on the European Union. As such, it aims to ensure that …
More than 50 percent of UK universities divest from fossil fuels.
… from fossil fuels. People & Planet, National Union of Students and Students Organising for … can sign People & Planet and National Union of Students’ Fossil Free Declaration …
Creating cash should not be the responsibility of the private banking system, but of the common wealth. Let’s get mutual, urge Molly Scott Cato and Martin Large
… tradition, including the Robert Owen Credit Union in his birthplace of Newtown, Powys. Credit unions form a growing movement that allows …
This budget season, and so a short perambulation around the vexed question of the national debt seems in order. As a nation we've been living with debt for more the 300 years now, since 1694 to be precise, when Scottish privateer William Paterson persuaded the government of the time that creating £1.2 million of IOUs would get them out of their spending difficulties.
… bankrupted Scotland and forced the Act of Union. A role model for Sir Fred Goodwin, …
Boris Johnson heralds leaving the EU as "a defining opportunity…to tear away bureaucratic red tape". What does this mean for environmental regulations?
… Brexit Environmental Regulations European Union Thought Leaders boris johnson4.jpg Boris …
Student occupation demanding fossil fuel divestment had no access to toilets, running water or internet.
… access to toilets. Staff from the Students’ Union were campaigning for the students to … told the student newspaper, The Mancunion : “The University of Manchester supports …
Climate laws are being adopted around the world. MOLLY SCOTT CATO and JAKOB DALUNDE, MEPs for the UK and Sweden, consider whether legally binding commitments can save us from a climate crisis and pave the way towards a net zero emissions planet
… regulation on the governance of the Energy Union. This aims to transpose the Paris …
The expected ban on neonicotinoids to protect bees has rightly created a lot of buzz. But will Michael Gove as environment secretary ignore the chemicals industry lobby and retain regulations after Brexit? MOLLY SCOTT CATO, a Green party MEP, counsels vigilance
… back an application by the National Farmers Union to lift the EU ban on bee-harming …
The Environmental Justice Foundation has documented gross human rights violations and serious illegal fishing offences aboard the Taiwanese Fuh Sheng 11. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
… subject to a formal warning from the European Union – known as a 'yellow card' – for not …
Major landowners - responsible for 700km2 of potential Eurasian lynx habitat in the Kielder Forest region - have approved access for lynx during the planned Lynx UK Trust trial reintroduction of the apex predator. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
… Sheep Association scaremongering, the union has avoided every opportunity to engage …