Just transition

It is not quite a Texas oil basin just yet, but amid a peace process with Kurdish militants, the Turkish government envisions a new energy frontier here that could help wean the nation off foreign crude. On the ground, however, locals fear they are being asked to trade their fertile soil, clean water and health for an oil boom that may not pay off.

After COP28 finally acknowledged the need to transition away from fossil fuels, Santa Marta tried to turn that promise into something more concrete. Journalist Seden Anlar explores whether its phaseout momentum can survive the road to COP31 and the forums where fossil-fuelled power still shapes the rules.

More than a decade after its launch, the Paks II investment is still in an early, uncertain stage, despite the fact that construction has formally begun.

"Nature-based solutions" receive widespread support. Yet they are so vaguely defined that corporations use them as a diversionary tactic for the ongoing destruction of "nature" on an industrial scale.

The world economy has become the central battleground for hegemonic rivalry between Washington and Beijing. Several factors have led to this development, first and foremost the economic rise of China.