Nick Buxton

Transnational Institute · Communications

UN Climate talks have become an annual fixture on the global diplomatic calendar since 1995. Some have been praised, others denounced, but the levels of greenhouse gas emissions have risen regardless year-on-year. This essay and eyewitness account argues that the Paris COP 21 talks like its predecessors failed to deliver a meaningful result, judged...

While ecologists and environmentalists view the melting of the polar ice caps as a dire and threatening effect of climate change, many business and political leaders see emerging opportunity, as a result of newly accessible oil and gas fields. As the contributors to The Secure and the Dispossessed reveal, the ongoing environmental transitions raise...

Nick Buxton, communications officer for Transnational Institute, reports from the UN summit, revealing how calls for radical change within the UN were consistently blocked by G8 nations opposed to any democratisation of decision-making related to the global economy.Nick Buxton, funcionario de comunicaciones para el Instituto Trasnacional, reporta d...