Progressing backwards
“I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong.” Christiana Figueres, the former Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, wrote…
Articles by ONE Editor
No justice without credibility
There is a lot of rhetoric when it comes to the just transition. Beginning with the adjective chosen to describe this path from a fossil-based…
Copper lock
Decarbonisation. Solar. Wind. Green hydrogen. Electric cars. Energy storage. The main keywords of EU energy policies are the same as the USA, China, India, Brazil…
The Law of the Many
Private jets pollute more. They pollute like all planes but serve few people, which is why the amount of co2 emitted per capita is unacceptable….
Supreme Coup
The intention was to tell the story of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, a British journalist and an Indigenous expert. Both were killed last June…
Raw War
Let’s forget propaganda for a minute. Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February. Fact. On the same day, Putin’s army seized control of the ghost Chernobyl…
Soonstainability
“Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This is the definition of sustainability…
The last hurrah
“Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net-zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah. This is all we hear from our so-called…
October-December 2021 (ONE)
Poor unfortunate soils
We know everything about CO2. We know so much it looks almost tangible. Carbon dioxide is so often paired with global warming and climate change…
Lost in transition
Green new deal, just transition fund, circular economy, carbon free, biofuels, eco-friendly, fair trade, organic, recycling, renewable, resilience, sustainability, zero-whatever (from emission to waste). The…
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Now is the time to plant the seeds of innovation. The pandemic has been too global and too prolonged to be considered just one of…
Sorry for raising the bar too high
“I don’t think science knows” – Donald Trump’s response to a scientist’s suggestion that climate change had a crucial role in this August’s West Coast…