Blogs
The Energy Charter Treaty: the fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 17 January 2024
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is an investment agreement between 50 countries specifically for the energy sector. Fossil fuel companies are now using the treaty to challenge climate action and […]
Read moreCase Study: Big Pharma
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 17 January 2024
Campaigns: Pharma
The medicines we need to keep us healthy are increasingly controlled by a small number of wealthy corporations. This has an enormous impact on what medicines are produced, who gets […]
Read moreCase Study: Monopoly Agriculture
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 17 January 2024
Campaigns: Food
Our food system is in crisis. While most people in the world are experiencing a cost of living crisis, and small food producers are struggling, the barons of the food […]
Read moreMSP Briefing: the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 8 June 2023
Campaigns: Climate
The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty is a bold idea spearheaded by a group of Pacific Island nations. It’s gaining support fast, from parliamentarians, academics, civil society organisations and individuals around […]
Read moreBig pharma isn’t working: why we need a new way to make medicines
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 May 2023
Campaigns: Pharma
Big pharma’s profit-driven model of making medicines is bad for our health. While in theory these companies exist to make the medicines we need, most are more interested in making […]
Read moreWhy we need a Fossil Fuel Treaty – Scotland briefing
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 25 May 2023
Campaigns: Climate
The call for fossil fuel companies such as Shell and BP to pay reparations for the damage they’ve done to the climate and the losses they’ve caused, particularly in the […]
Read moreWhat’s wrong with the Pacific trade deal?
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 30 March 2023
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
The UK government has just signed an agreement to join the Pacific trade deal (CPTPP). That’s bad news for the climate, for food standards, for democracy and for global inequality. […]
Read moreMaking polluters pay climate reparations
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 6 February 2023
Campaigns: Climate
At the COP27 climate talks in 2022, countries finally agreed to set up an international compensation fund for lower income countries facing loss and damage due to climate change. We’re […]
Read moreReparations and climate justice
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 28 September 2022
Campaigns: Climate
Before, at and since COP26, climate and social justice movements have been talking about the need for climate reparations. Of course, broader demands for reparations have a far longer history, […]
Read moreThe Financial Services and Markets Bill: a speculator’s charter
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 September 2022
Campaigns: Food, General
The Financial Services and Markets Bill is a massive, deregulatory piece of legislation currently making its way through parliament. As part of the British government’s disengagement from EU rules on […]
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