by Nick Mabey and me. Posted by Copenhagen, Independent blog, via Stop Warming, on 9 December 2009. China and the United States have now put their opening bids for Copenhagen on the table. The US is offering a 17% reduction on its 2005 emissions subject to the passage of climate legislation […]
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: Slouching away from Copenhagen: a terrible beauty was stillborn
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: Environment profile low at party conferences
Published in ENDS Report (Issue 417, p54), in October 2009. Conference speeches by party leaders take on a special significance just before a general election. Their purpose is no longer simply to rally the faithful but to reach over the heads of party members and speak directly to the electorate. […]
Climate policy success imperative to achieve global goals
Published in The Times, in September 2009. Climate change transforms the landscape of risk and opportunity for countries, for companies and for citizens everywhere. This is equally true whether climate policy succeeds or fails. Policy success means building a carbon neutral global energy system by about the middle of the […]
The debate must focus on the human cost
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: It’s time to realise the climate is too big to fail
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: Labour’s environmental rhetoric fails to convince
Speech: The future of climate policy
Speech: OPEC vs Kyoto?
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: Nuclear renaissance will fail without public trust
Published in ENDS Report (Issue 412, p39), in May 2009. The current political crisis is more than a passing storm in the weather of events that politicians endure daily. To govern successfully in a parliamentary democracy they must possess both legitimacy and authority. The authority stems from the confidence of […]