The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders…
Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond is a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. From 2020-21 he was Professor at the Western Cape School of Government and from 2015-2019 was a Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance. From 2004 through mid-2016, he was Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Built Environment and Development Studies and was also Director of the Centre for Civil Society. He has held visiting posts at a dozen universities and presented lectures at more than 100 others.
In 1965, Ho Chi Minh described U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese – and simultaneous threat of endless bombing…
What kind of monetary carrot is needed to help high-polluting middle-income countries to rapidly decarbonize? Mainly because of a South African pilot…
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings have witnessed protests in Washington and many other sites. Nearly 100 protesters from…
What does South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit last Friday to the White House – and the trip last month by U.S.…
Africa is responsible for less than four percent of historic global emissions – we are not the ones who caused this crisis. We want climate justice
Floods again ravaged South Africa’s third-largest city, Durban, killing at least 300 residents
It’s a time when we really need the Bretton Woods Institutions to start a rapid winding down, as part of a true global effort to build back better
‘COP26 is a performance. It is an illusion constructed to save the capitalist economy rooted in resource extraction and colonialism.’
Governments and corporations around the world are fully aware of the danger of the climate crisis. They are not lacking information or education; it’s all out there
