Green Transition

Ukraine’s reconstruction is only partly a matter for the future: housing, agriculture and the energy grid require immediate action.

With the European Green Deal, the EU falls into a pattern of relations based on exploitation with Africa, risking to further sour relations.

Predrag Momčilović asks who will benefit from the extraction of Serbia’s bountiful reserves of lithium.

Marie-Monique Franssen speaks to the communities at the frontlines of the global lithium frenzy.

For philosopher Nikolaj Schultz, the fight for a liveable future is the new class struggle.

A closer look to greenwashing policies and fossil fuel legacy in Norway, debunking their presumptions of being climate leaders.

In recent years, the citizens of Serbia and Albania have offered inspiring examples of mobilisation against extractivism and ecosystem degradation. Can their success be replicated across the Balkans and beyond?

In Spain, the installation of large renewable energy plants generates contrasts. Local populations concerned at the transformation of their homelands on the one hand. A climate that cannot wait on the other. The films Alcarras and As Bestas brought these divisions that risk undermining the energy transition to the big screen.

The EU tried in vain to create the world economy in its own image. Now it is turning to industrial policy to assertively protect its model against the policies of others. A new European industrial policy could democratise, accelerate, and make the green and digital transitions more just. To achieve these benefits, it requires European not national funding, needs to boost additional investment rather than the profits of established firms, and must be transparent, conditional, and inclusive.

Current food production systems threaten the future of our planet and the need for reform can no longer be ignored.