Blogs
Thinking through the IPCC report in the new global situation
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 4 April 2022
Campaigns: Climate, General, Trade
One would think that, given the present convergence of crises – a runaway climate; a global pandemic that has already killed at least an estimated 6.18 million people around the […]
Read moreCOP26: Many of our worst fears were realised, but the movement is unbowed
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 31 January 2022
Campaigns: Climate
Many of those following the UN climate talks at the 26th annual Conference of Parties (COP26) were frustrated, but not surprised, with its dismal results last year. Even the scientists […]
Read moreVaccine apartheid, a strategy of social murder
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 11 October 2021
Campaigns: Pharma
The organisation of our economies has driven two of the biggest global crises the world faces: pandemics, of which Covid-19 will not be the last, and the climate and ecological […]
Read more100 days before COP26: We need to see transformative solutions this November
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 23 July 2021
Campaigns: Climate
100 days from now, the central point of climate politics will be Glasgow as the UK hosts the 26th Conference of Parties or COP26 under the UN Framework Convention on […]
Read moreThe G7 summit 2021: Will this alliance of the rich and new allies solve our current crises?
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 10 June 2021
Campaigns: Climate, General, Pharma
The heads of states of the Group of 7 (G7), which includes the UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, France and Italy, will have its annual summit this year at Carbis […]
Read moreAre the ambitious cuts and new pledges from Biden’s climate summit enough?
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 27 April 2021
Campaigns: Climate
President Joe Biden convened a two-day virtual climate summit on 22 – 23 April attended by heads of state of 40 nations. It included both some of the world’s top […]
Read moreVaccine apartheid: A threat to an inclusive COP26
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 7 April 2021
Campaigns: Climate, Pharma
The ongoing global inequality in people’s access to life-saving Covid-19 vaccines is not just a global public health issue, it also threatens the inclusivity of the COP26 climate negotiations and […]
Read moreA balance sheet of a year of neoliberal pandemic responses
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 11 March 2021
Campaigns: Pharma
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that Covid-19 was a global pandemic. A year since, there have been more than 116.5 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 globally, including […]
Read moreThe ‘Post-Trump Systemic Disorder’ we will continue to live in
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 21 January 2021
Campaigns: General
Hundreds of millions of viewers yesterday watched the live coverage of Air Force One, which took Donald Trump on his last flight as US president from the Joint Base Andrews […]
Read moreThe Climate Ambition Summit 2020: a phoney “sprint to Glasgow”?
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 10 December 2020
Campaigns: Climate
Five years ago, the landmark 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) produced the Paris Agreement. The accord brought together 195 nations […]
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