ENDS Report 428, p. 54, September 2010. BP’s analysis of what caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sounds uncomfortable echoes of the US military’s reaction to events at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq war. Corporate and military approaches to risk have much in common. Unpicking the […]
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 […]