Oxfam: COVID-19, inequality, rising food prices driving severe poverty and other stories
Today we look at an Oxfam report on global extreme poverty rates, rising deaths among unhoused people across the US, and more
“Electricity obeys the laws of physics, not the laws of the market”
Over the weekend, multiple States in India faced power cuts as coal reserves in the country are running out. How did it come to this?
Can the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bring Russia and Europe closer?
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the importance of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany
Nicaragua’s green revolution
While large polluting countries have refused to take necessary measures to slow the climate crisis, Nicaragua, one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, has taken impressive steps to shift to more sustainable energy
The crisis of South Africa’s energy company and unions’ plan to save it
Union’s solution to the crisis in Eskom is a reversal of the government’s policy of decommissioning Eskom’s power production units and outsourcing the energy requirement to private companies
Workers in Greece protest the government’s bid for privatization in the energy sector
The government has been steadily advancing its project of privatization in the gas sector through the sale of 66% of the National Transmission System in December 2018, the separation of marketing from distribution networks, and now a bill for further privatization.
