A climate scientist is heavily favored to win Sunday’s presidential election.

Private investment cannot and should not drive decarbonisation. It's obvious: we need the state.

Not only do insecure housing systems and growing environmental pressures concern the same buildings and the same people — they cannot be separated at all.

Past and present energy transitions have been motivated by the political and economic ends of industry and government, including disempowering workers, but they also create new opportunities for...

Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the climate

Market-based climate policy — which strives to replace politics with “precision" — has failed. We need transformative, democratic solutions to address the climate crisis.

We urgently need to transform our relationship to the future, freeing it from the logics of capitalisation and its unequal treatment of time.

As the idea of the "just transition" has become mainstream, it has increasingly been co-opted. We need a transition away from both fossil fuels and from the extractive systems harming both people and...

The "transition plans" of Western militaries are only viable responses to climate and ecological crisis when the causes of those crises are ignored. What is needed now is the drawdown, not the...

In our launch essay, Adrienne Buller argues it's impossible to talk about climate and ecological crisis without talking about capitalism.

Landmark judgment says planning bodies must account for burning of extracted fuel when considering site proposals

Renewable energy is often held up as the great success story of climate change, with policymakers and journalists constantly celebrating that clean energy is...

The "transition plans" of Western militaries are only viable responses to climate and ecological crisis when the causes of those crises are ignored. What is needed now is the drawdown, not the...

Market-based climate policy — which strives to replace politics with “precision" — has failed. We need transformative, democratic solutions to address the climate crisis.

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews,...

Episode · The Break Down · Renewable energy is often held up as the great success story of climate change, with policymakers and journalists constantly celebrating that clean energy is now cheaper...

We urgently need to transform our relationship to the future, freeing it from the logics of capitalisation and its unequal treatment of time.

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews,...

Past and present energy transitions have been motivated by the political and economic ends of industry and government, including disempowering workers, but they also create new opportunities for...

The "transition plans" of Western militaries are only viable responses to climate and ecological crisis when the causes of those crises are ignored. What is needed now is the drawdown, not the...

Episode · The Break Down · Followers of The Break Down may remember our very first episode, in which Adrienne spoke to the brilliant Brett Christophers about the many and varied reasons why — despite...

Many of us are familiar with the global target of "net zero emissions" by 2050 enshrined in the Paris Agreement. You’re likely also familiar with how far off...

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Oil is fundamental to our understanding of the climate crisis. But despite its starring role, the dominance of oil in the global energy system is a relatively r

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews,...

Many of us are familiar with the global target of "net zero emissions" by 2050 enshrined in the Paris Agreement. You’re likely also familiar with how far off...

Episode · The Break Down · As a listener of The Break Down, chances are you’re living in a political system that could be defined as “liberal”. But what does “liberalism” really describe? Is it about...

Renewable energy is often held up as the great success story of climate change, with policymakers and journalists constantly celebrating that clean energy is...

---What would you say a human life is worth? According to the US government, for an American it’s about $7.2 million, compared with the global average of app...

Not only do insecure housing systems and growing environmental pressures concern the same buildings and the same people — they cannot be separated at all.

In this special episode, Adam Hanieh explains the threads linking the global oil economy; more than a century of Western imperialism; contemporary American inte

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews,...

As the idea of the "just transition" has become mainstream, it has increasingly been co-opted. We need a transition away from both fossil fuels and from the extractive systems harming both people and...

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews,...

Capitalism could not exist without the power and structure of the law — that’s the simple but radical argument made by my guest today, Katharina Pistor, law ...

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews,...

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews,...

Capitalism could not exist without the power and structure of the law — that’s the simple but radical argument made by my guest today, Katharina Pistor, law ...

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews,...