https://znetwork.org/author/tomathanasiou/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:03:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/tomathanasiou/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/inequity-inequality-inaction-ten-years-after-paris/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/inequity-inequality-inaction-ten-years-after-paris/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:03:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291263 2015’s Paris Agreement could have been a turning point. It posited a world in which all countries – the wealthy and the rest – would do their proper parts, as they saw them, to stabilize the climate system. Paris wasn’t ideal — there was no agreed way of understanding national fair shares in the effort [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/inequity-inequality-inaction-ten-years-after-paris/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-dubai/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-dubai/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262151 During the recent climate summit in Dubai, COP28 president Sultan Al-Jaber, with some exasperation, came out with the following rather amazing statement: “Please help me, show me the roadmap for a phase out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socioeconomic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.” Al-Jabar was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-dubai/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cop27-almost-nothing-but-something-real-changed/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cop27-almost-nothing-but-something-real-changed/#respond Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:19:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1233228 There is something in the modern radical mind that wants the climate negotiations to fail. Such a failure, after all, would seem to prove that this wretched system cannot be reformed, that only a revolutionary break can save humanity’s future. COP27, the climate conference in Sharm El Sheik in Egypt, was not, however, a failure. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cop27-almost-nothing-but-something-real-changed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1057349/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1057349/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:23:33 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1057349 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1057349/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/equity-and-fair-shares-in-a-net-zero-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/equity-and-fair-shares-in-a-net-zero-world/#respond Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:01:38 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1048453 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/equity-and-fair-shares-in-a-net-zero-world/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-model-us-fair-shares-pledge/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-model-us-fair-shares-pledge/#respond Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:05:34 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1045919 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-model-us-fair-shares-pledge/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-us-returns-to-the-paris-agreement/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-us-returns-to-the-paris-agreement/#respond Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:02:28 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1043781 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-us-returns-to-the-paris-agreement/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-inequality-in-a-time-of-climate-emergency-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-inequality-in-a-time-of-climate-emergency-2/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:02:46 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1021548 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-inequality-in-a-time-of-climate-emergency-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-inequality-in-a-time-of-climate-emergency/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-inequality-in-a-time-of-climate-emergency/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:01:49 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1021221 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-inequality-in-a-time-of-climate-emergency/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-crossroads/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-crossroads/#respond Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:01:46 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=968490 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-crossroads/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/everybody-knows-climate-denialism-has-peaked-now-what-are-we-going-to-do-by-tom-athanasiou/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/everybody-knows-climate-denialism-has-peaked-now-what-are-we-going-to-do-by-tom-athanasiou/#respond Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:15:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/everybody-knows-climate-denialism-has-peaked-now-what-are-we-going-to-do-by-tom-athanasiou/feed/ 0