Published on openDemocracy, on 6 December, 2005. Read my response below, and follow this link to see the full article with all responses. A new book by the pioneering green campaigner Jonathon Porritt, “Capitalism As If the World Matters”, calls on environmentalists to create a politics of sustainability that accepts the […]
The power and the unglory
The Nuclear Debate
Performance and value
Published in Environmental Finance, in October 2005. A constellation of factors have led to environmental and social performance becoming an increasingly important factor in shaping a company’s value. This places the issue of how to assess that performance much higher on the corporate agenda. The first of those factors is […]
Energy and Climate Change – Fuelling the Future
Published in The World Today, the magazine published by The Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House. It appeared in the September 2005 issue (Volume 61, Number 10). Energy security and climate security are two issues that will dominate global politics in the 21st Century. The tragic fate of […]
The politics of climate change
Published in the Fabian Society’s Autumn 2005: Party Futures. Climate change is not like any of the other problems that politicians must solve as we move this first, and potentially most crucial, century of the fourth millennium. Throughout history, humanity has relied on succeeding generations to correct the mistakes of […]
Costing the climate
Written for publication in July 2005. To their considerable surprise, British journalists at Gleneagles were approached by members of the US delegation wishing to comment on a recent report by the House of Lords Committee on Economic Affairs. This report, ‘The Economics of Climate Change’ was published to little notice […]
The G8 and climate change: a campaigners’ scorecard
Was the G8 summit good for the prospects of limiting global climate change? Scientists and campaigners comment on the Gleneagles outcome. My answer to this question is below. To see all of the contributions- from Mayer Hillman, Camilla Toulmin &Saleemul Huq, Stephen Harrison, and Aubrey Meyer- click here. Published on openDemocracy on […]
Coal, not nuclear, is the new black
Published in Inside Track, the quarterly magazine of Green Alliance, Issue 11, Summer 2005. You could have beeen forgiven for thinking that nuclear power was back in fashion. After the general election a barrage of headlines, column inches and sound bites heralded the return of nuclear power as an option […]
Enigma code
Published in The Guardian, on 29th June 2005. Civil servants long ago discovered the infinite elasticity of the English language. It can be greatly stretched to cover the holes where policies should be, providing an essential service to their political masters whose failures of will would otherwise be all too […]