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Articles by Igor Matutinovic
Green Housing Threatens Affordability. But It Doesn’t Have To
With their sights set on energy efficiency, policy-makers neglect that green renovations are driving up rents for the most vulnerable. Only with strong social protections and a shift away from financialisation can the basic right to housing be made compatible with curbing emissions. The housing and climate crises are caught in a vicious circle.
Ταξινομία της Ε.Ε.: Η βρώμικη πολιτική του πράσινου ξεπλύματος της ενέργειας
Μετά την έγκριση του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου, η Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή προωθεί τα σχέδια της για την ταξινόμηση του ορυκτού αερίου και της πυρηνικής ενέργειας ως μορφών «πράσινης» ενέργειας. Αυτή η καταστροφική κίνηση θα έχει επιπτώσεις σε ένα μεγάλο αριθμό ζητημάτων, από τον πόλεμο στην Ουκρανία έως την κλιματική κρίση τα επόμενα χρόνια.
Taking Energy Systems From Profit-Making to Ensuring Wellbeing
At a time when the moral bankruptcy of energy companies has been laid bare by their profit-making in an energy crisis, different models for energy production and consumption are more relevant than ever. Chris Vettos argues for more autonomy and longer-term approaches to energy security and looks to energy communities across Europe taking this approach. The profit-driven energy system is not fit for purpose.
Bringing Europe Together Amid Crises
Against a background of heightening geopolitical instability and economic uncertainty, the path ahead for Europe looks far from smooth. Green MEP Ernest Urtasun and co-leader of Latvia’s Progresīvie Antoņina Ņenaševa discuss how Europe will need to make decisive choices. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a stark illustration of what is at stake.
Limiting the cost of living while protecting the climate
Fri 19 Aug 2022 This article originally appeared in the Green European Journal on 3 August 2022. The European Union is experiencing an unprecedented combination of an energy price shock and energy security risk. While oil prices collapsed in the first months of the pandemic in 2020, they have been steadily rising since April 2020, as a consequence of OPEC production cuts, and from March 2021, optimism about the end of the pandemic. Natural gas prices followed suit.
Keeping the Cost of Living Down While Protecting the Climate
With rising inflation and energy security under threat, European governments are facing a perfect storm as they look to balance the cost of living, the war in Ukraine, and climate objectives. The risk is that governments abandon serious forward-thinking climate policy and opt for short-term compensation schemes while trying to bring energy prices down. This overlooks that a successful energy transition requires high fossil-fuel energy prices.
Buen Vivir: A Concept on the Rise in Europe?
The concept of buen vivir has gained visibility in Latin America in recent years. Rooted in indigenous worldviews, buen vivir rests on an understanding of humanity’s relationship with nature that is fundamentally at odds with the anthropocentrism of modernity. Gustavo Hernández and Henkjan Laats trace the concept’s rising trajectory and its influence and echos in Europe.
Sovereignty on a Changing Planet: Re-Reading Climate Leviathan
What are the horizons of a global system adapting to climate breakdown? What forms will state responses take and with what consequences? Climate Leviathan (2018) maps out possible futures for the global order in a warming 21st century. Amid a pandemic that has shaken international politics, does the authors’ vision of a coming planetary sovereignty – or of the alternatives – still hold?
The End of Neoliberal Ideology
Are government responses to the coronavirus crisis across the globe evidence that neoliberalism’s days are numbered? Already on the rocks since 2008, its ideological offer no longer poses a credible route out of our multiple crises. Igor Matutinovic explains the neoliberal worldview and its social and ecological consequences. From pandemics to growing inequalities and climate breakdown, the complex problems of our times call for new solutions.
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