by barry | Feb 18, 2024 | Campaigns, Climate Change
The climate crisis is creating new and heightened occupational risks to workers, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is warning. Extreme weather and changing weather patterns are affected job security and health for workers, the global union body says....
by barry | Jan 2, 2024 | Climate Change, Reviews
Just how the media covers the climate emergency and what treatment will in get as we approach the general election? Toxic News? Covering Climate Change, edited by John Mair, John Riley and Andrew Beck attempts to tackle these important questions post COP 28, with the...
by barry | Oct 1, 2023 | Campaigns, Climate Change, Government
In the run up to the Conservative party conference in Blackpool this week, we have been bombarded with a number of policies aimed at diverting attention away from the government’s failed economic policies and the cost of living crisis by offering a number of...
by barry | Dec 28, 2022 | Campaigns, Climate Change
If you watched ‘The Oil Machine’ on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001gf42/the-oil-machine you may recall a statement by a spokesperson from BP who stressed the importance of being part of the transition to a lower carbon economy. He went on to...
by barry | Nov 27, 2022 | Campaigns, Climate Change, international, Press
The sand has settled following COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – a country whose prisons are heaving with political prisoners including Egyptian-British pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Now it’s time to evaluate just how the press covered this most...
by barry | Nov 23, 2021 | Campaigns, Climate Change, international
Now that the media has moved on from COP 26 in Glasgow it’s time to take stock of the outcomes and consider how it impacts on us. So what was the United Nations global climate summit COP 26 all about? In Paris in 2015 195 nations committed themselves to work towards...
