Consumers squander nearly $10bn in critical minerals each year while extraction risks people and the planet
A new report has found that every year consumers discard, or hold on to, disused electronic goods containing raw materials ...
Tag: Capitalism
Corporate presence at party conference shows Labour is no climate justice champion
Another conference, more politicians half-assing it on the climate crisis. This year, the Conservative and Labour Party conferences were jam-packed ...
Brazil’s Yanomami People are facing another colonialist threat – this time from ultra processed food
The Yanomami are an Indigenous People of Brazil and Venezuela. The Brazilian state specifically and corporations have for decades violated ...
COP28 host announces fossil fuel industry emissions pledge, while scaling up carbon capture technology
As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) COP28 host has tried to burnish its green image, its state fossil fuel company ...
Net zero split is under the magnifying glass at the Conservative party conference
At the Conservative party’s annual conference, talk on the green energy transition has been all the rage. The agenda is ...
Campaigners are outraged as water bills are set for dramatic increases to fund new infrastructure
Water companies in England and Wales announced plans on 2 October to nearly double investment into infrastructure between 2025 and ...
US Federal Trade Commission and 17 states take Amazon to court
A top US antitrust regulator is suing online retail giant Amazon. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accused the company ...
Brazil’s senate approves a controversial bill in a major setback for Indigenous land rights
Less than a week after celebrations of a key victory in Brazil's supreme court, the country experienced a major setback ...
TotalEnergies gears up for greenwashing at its investor day
French fossil fuel major TotalEnergies will host its next 'Investor Day' on Wednesday 27 September. As it says on the ...
The corporations making up the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure hold a prolific record of ecological and human rights violations
Corporations wrecking the planet and harming frontline communities have added a new chapter to their greenwashing playbook. On 18 September, ...
Green groups call out new nature disclosure framework as another exercise in corporate greenwashing
A coalition of rights groups and environmental non-profits named the Forests & Finance Coalition have called out the “corporate greenwashing” ...
Claims of maltreatment by police in Ghana as anti-government protests continue for a second day
Protests have continued outside Ghana's presidential palace for a second day running. Meanwhile, protesters have claimed that they experienced beatings ...
Sunak proves why the UN was right to snub the UK PM for its Climate Ambition Summit
On 20 September, world leaders met in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit. In a novel move before ...
Sunak’s bonfire of climate policies is a boon for landlords and big oil, but a disaster everyone else
On 20 September, Rishi Sunak announced that the government was torching a series of its climate policies. The millionaire prime ...
New extinction study should be a wake-up call to end the Global North’s exploitation of nature
A new study shines a fresh light on the sobering reality of the biodiversity crisis. According to an analysis published ...
London-based visual effects giant DNEG threatens employees with 25% pay cut – or a company loan
As the Canary recently reported, the US writers and actors strike has had massive knock-on effects for UK film and ...
The World Transformed announces XR are supporting its festival – just as the protest group repaints Labour HQ with fake oil
The World Transformed (TWT) has released what it calls a "combative" programme for this year's left-wing political festival of ideas. ...
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