Nicholas Beuret is a lecturer in environmental politics and economic geography at the University of Essex and the author of Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition.
The UN is putting refugees to work in poorly paid green jobs to generate carbon credits for billion-dollar firms. It’s one of the most cynical instances of a corporate greenwashing agenda that has done little to address climate change.
A decade ago, Western governments pitched the green transition as a solution to reindustrialization and economic decline. The failure of these policies to produce well-paying jobs has triggered a right-wing backlash in both the UK and the US.