Ditching net zero is a dangerous gamble for Japan's megabanks

Ditching net zero is a dangerous gamble for Japan's megabanks

Eri Watanabe is a senior Japan energy finance campaigner at Market Forces, a clean energy finance advocacy group working across Asia and Australia. Ja

'Shameful!' Labour caves to China AGAIN as Miliband set to reject plan to ban 'slave-made' solar panels

Labour has been branded "shameful" after it emerged the party will be whipping its MPs to block a move to ban slave-made solar panels.A Lords amendment to the upcoming Great British Energy Bill is looking to stop Energy Secretary Ed Miliband from including a Chinese firm's solar panels in a £180million-valued schools and hospitals project - key parts of which are made via Uighur forced labour.The Xinjiang region, home to the Uighur people, produ…

Forced labour ban to be ditched in race to net zero

Should the race to net zero come at any cost? Ed Miliband’s crowd appears to think so. The Energy Security Secretary will overturn a ban on forced labour to further his zero carbon ambitions, it transpires, as today the government will whip its parliamentarians to vote down an amendment that would prevent eco-friendly materials being

Ed Miliband invests heavily in renewable energy to reach the Net Zero in the United Kingdom, but this raises ethical concerns. Imported solar panels, often from forced labour in China, highlight the contradictions between the energy transition and respect for human rights. Despite proposed amendments to ban these imports, the Labour Party chose to reject them, raising criticism of its commitment to the values of ethics and equality. While Ed Mil…

Some slavery is OK: UK Labour party block amendment banning slave-made-solar-panels « JoNova

By Jo Nova While careers and statues have died at the merest hint of not refuting slavery hard enough, the UK Labour Party will make sure slave-made-solar panels will still be imported to the UK, and the people exploiting the slaves will still be paid. We have to ask, O’ Great Moral Guardians, was it because there aren’t enough solar panels that are not slave-made, and if we stop supporting the slavers, the only panels left will cost a fortune? I