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140+ economists and experts call on Paris Summit leaders to redirect trillions in public money from fossil fuels, unfair debts, and the super rich to fix global crises

140+ economists and experts call on Paris Summit leaders to redirect trillions in public money from fossil fuels, unfair debts, and the super rich to fix global crises

The oil and gas sector is counting its billions, and preaching renewables. The math doesn't compute.

Critics of this international agreement, accused of protecting polluters, are now hoping for a coordinated withdrawal by all European countries.

Emmanuel Macron announced it this Friday, October 21 at the end of the European summit: France will leave the ECT, the 30-year-old Energy Charter Treaty. This text is denounced by the protectors…

Macron has defended the corporation’s extortion of tens of billions from workers internationally as prices surge amid the NATO war with Russia in Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron finally hit the campaign trail in March, vying for re-election after a crisis-laden five years for France, Europe and the world beyond. After poring over Macron's rec…

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Ahead of summit, more than 100 economists call on G7 countries to commit to shift their finance out of all fossil fuels this year, to enable a green pandemic recovery On June 11-13, world leaders will gather at the G7 summit. There, they plan to adopt an agenda to “build back better from coronavirus and create a greener, more prosperous future”. We, the undersigned economists, believe...

"A Season in Hell" is a long-term series presented by Ricochet in partnership with the Brussels office of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. The co-published series examines the current political conflicts and social movements in France. The amounts made available in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are eye-watering. “The time for public spending has come,” according to the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance (informally referred to as Bercy). We are no longer counting in millions but in...