Some are responding to this highlighting poor transport links in urban areas. Urban areas should of course have affordable, reliable, accessible transport links. Island communities also deserve this, and one option to advance this is exploring Faroese-style tunnel networks.

🚀 Now OUT: New Bretton Woods Proj. report finds energy conditionality in World Bank DPF is paving the way for energy privatisation in LMICs - foreclosing other energy transition models rooted in sovereignty & national ownership

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CC Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب Kate Aronoff

I joined the STUC podcast to talk about the Grangemouth oil refinery alongside Chris Hamilton, Ryan Morrison and Ewan Gibbs.

We discuss workers’ rights, corporate power and democratic ownership in the context of a just transition. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mon…

Freeports are being rolled out by the UK Government and the Scottish Government has added conditionalities to improve them. However, freeports are a tried, tested and failed model. Our co-director Miriam Brett discusses freeports in The National. thenational.scot/news/24229486.…

The announced closure of Grangemouth oil refinery is a litmus test of a just transition for fossil fuel workers. This STUC podcast on Grangemouth’s future features refinery convener Chris Hamilton along with Miriam Brett, Ryan Morrison and myself. open.spotify.com/episode/5TxPsK…

Our co-director Miriam Brett spoke about Petroineos’ proposed closure of Grangemouth oil refinery on this new podcast with Unite convenor Chris Hamilton, Ewan Gibbs and others. “Done well, a just transition can create more jobs than we currently have.”

🎙️open.spotify.com/episode/5TxPsK…

“They were not able to talk, paraplegic. They were literally lying down as vegetables on those beds. I saw even small children with direct sniper shot wounds to the head as well as in the chest. They were not combatants, they were small children.” theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Our research on the nature finance gap was included in this interview with Community Land Scotland’s Josh Doble on the risks of relying on private finance to restore nature. Thanks Stornoway Gazette editor-at-large Brian Wilson. stornowaygazette.co.uk/must-read/peat…