Baku is hosting the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) By Tehran Tapdygov, Azerbaijani journalist, political observer Azerbaijan, Baku. Today these words are familiar to the whole world. A short period of independence and a huge road travelled. Baku has become the center of international negotiations. Especially after the ...
In a previous article, we referred to the deterioration of a series of grave problems regarding the disastrous degradation of the natural environment around the world, including climate change (or rather, climate crisis) and air pollution . These problems are hard to deal with, but they become even harder due to the consistent efforts of big polluters to deny climate ...
The public agenda in Turkiye was been relatively calmer for the first days of the New Year, when compared to the previous year. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed the new year with his speech on the climate change. The contradictions over the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland has started to deepen between Turkiye and other NATO ...
By Michael Roberts * Inflation, risk of global recession, growing inequality and rising debt for the global south, global warming, war – I could go on. These are the fault-lines exhibited in the world economy in 2022. What is to be done about it? It is revealing to consider the solutions offered by analysts writing for the IMF in its monthly ...
The increase in electricity prices is often presented today as just another supply shock, which is not exactly the case. For British households, the observed price increase, the highest since 2018, means a decrease in available income, and thus in consumption and aggregate demand. It is also one of the main catalysts of rising inflation seen across Europe. However, since ...
The agreement signed as a result of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26), which was recently held in Glasgow, Scotland, was found insufficient to reduce global warming and its effects. World leaders have agreed on a weak climate deal, under the effect of the fossil fuel lobbies, which is not even close to preventing a temperature rise of ...
By Micaela Constantini* From Sunday October 31 until November 12, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP26, has taken place. It is the first face-to-face summit in two years, with the participation of delegates from almost all the countries that make up the UN, a large number of heads of state and government, experts on environmental issues, ...