Published in ENDS Report 430, p. 70, November 2010. The alarming Public Bodies Bill gives ministers sweeping powers to abolish or change regulatory and advisory bodies set up by act of Parliament. Fraudsters and conjurers are both skilled in the art of misdirection. They are masters at deceiving you into […]
Speech: The launch of the BBC’s internal sustainability action plan – ‘The Difference’
Speech: The challenges for nuclear new build: investment, engineering and the planning system
Tom Burke’s political commentary: The risks that mining can’t dig its way out of
ENDS Report 429, p. 52, October 2010. With its big environmental impacts and need for huge upfront investments, the global mining industry needs political and policy stability more than ever before. I was in Western Australia in early October. I had been invited to speak at the Minerals Council of […]
Without a true green investment bank there can be no environmental progress
Tom Burke’s political commentary: corporate culture, risk and responsibility: navigating the abyss
Q&A session on the politics of cutting carbon before Cancun
Q&A session, which appeared in The Independent, published in September 2010. Can we cut carbon in time? Yes. If we really want to. If all our current carbon intensive vehicles, power stations, factories and other sources of carbon dioxide were replaced by zero carbon technologies at the end of their […]
Cities, Civilisation and Climate
Published in CEOs for Cities, on 7th September 2010. Civilisation is the thin film of order that human beings with ingenuity and imagination have constructed around the chaos of events. In a rapidly changing climate this is at its most brittle in our cities. More than half the world’s population […]
A climate for European action
by Tom Burke. Published in The Independent, on 3rd September 2010. The global effort to reach a legally binding agreement on tackling climate change has stalled. There is little prospect of a quick breakthrough when the negotiators reconvene at Cancun in Mexico in December. Nor is it likely that there […]