Focus

Burning Up

A fortnight-long focus about climate breakdown, who it’s impacting, and how we fight it.

Burning Up

A fortnight-long focus about climate breakdown, who it’s impacting, and how we fight it.

Novara Docs: Death by Pollution

Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right.

Opinion: Green Capitalism Will Never Succeed in Tackling Climate Breakdown

by Leon Sealey-Huggins

We're now beginning to see the contours of 'green capitalism' - and it's not pretty. Meaningful responses to the climate crisis will only succeed if they address global inequalities, argues Leon Sealey-Huggins - which also means our solutions cannot be 'beyond politics'.

Opinion: 9 Books for Getting to Grips With the Climate Crisis

by Gaya Sriskanthan, Chris Saltmarsh & Adrienne Buller

To accompany our ongoing Climate Focus, we asked some of Novara's friends to share their top reading recommendations for understanding the defining issues of the climate crisis.

Novara FM: The Bodies on the Gears: How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm argues in How to Blow Up a Pipeline that the climate movement must act against the infrastructure of death. He joins James Butler to discuss.

Analysis: What Does It Take to Win Climate Justice?

by Nathan Thanki

2020 may have been a tough year, but it also saw major victories for environmental justice movements around the world. Nathan Thanki spoke to campaigners in Ireland, South Africa, the Philippines and Ecuador about how to fight - and how to win.

Report: Why Are NGOs So Bad at Saving the Planet?

by Ben Smoke

Britain's four largest environmental NGOs rake in hundreds of millions of pounds each year, but critics say they are near useless despite their enormous outgoings. Ben Smoke asks why the movement is failing to take the kind of radical action necessary to fighting climate breakdown.

Opinion: Meat Without Animals Isn’t Some Utopia. It’s a Future Already on Its Way

by Aaron Bastani

Major developments in lab-grown meat have quietly passed most of us by, writes Aaron Bastani. But a world where we live within our planet’s limits while eating beef and lamb, and where animals need not suffer, isn’t some far-off future - it's already on the horizon.

Downstream: Can Lab-Grown Meat Save the World? Aaron Bastani Meets Michael Selden

On this week’s Downstream, Aaron Bastani meets Mike Selden, co-founder of Finless Foods - a cellular agriculture business in California - to find out whether lab-grown meat can live up to the hype.

Analysis: The Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry Could Be Disastrous for Workers. Now’s the Time to Nationalise It

by Kate Aronoff

Fossil fuels may be on the way out, but there’s no reason to trust firms will wind down quickly enough, or in a way that protects workers. Kate Aronoff looks at how nationalising the sector could work in the US or UK - and argues ultimately it’s a good idea.

Opinion: To Bring About a Just Transition, Unions and the Climate Movement Must Work Together

by Chris Saltmarsh

Right now, trade unions and climate organisations have neither the radical politics nor militant strategies needed for a just energy transition. Chris Saltmarsh spoke to union activists about where we're going wrong.

Opinion: We’ll Always Have Paris?

by Adrienne Buller

Joe Biden’s victory marks the end of four years of US climate denial and isolationism. But rather than celebrating a return to the glossy theatrics of diplomacy, we need to make ever stronger demands for climate justice on a global scale, argues Adrienne Buller.