Published on ENDS Report Blogs, on 25th August 2010. Pakistan is experiencing the worst floods in its history. 20 million people have been displaced. Many have died. More will die. The waters have washed away more than homes and livelihoods, they have washed away years of investment in the public […]
Tom Burke’s political commentary: Nuclear companies open new front in fight for government subsidies
Tom Burke’s political commentary: Don’t just kick BP but learn all the lessons from the Gulf oil-spill disaster
Tom Burke’s political commentary: The many lessons from BP’s agony
Tom Burke’s political commentary: Can blending blue and yellow really make green?
ENDS Report 424, p. 51, May 2010. The distribution of seats in the new coalition cabinet might concern some environmentalists, but the Conservative and Liberal Democrat green ministers should not find it too hard to work together Cabinet creation is an arcane process. The rapid shuffling of seats and the bottoms […]
Speech to the VIP Dinner at the ‘Financing Europe’s Energy Needs and Climate Action in the 21st Century’ Conference
Green investment bank may be announced in the budget, but what would it deliver?
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: The next government faces public revolt over land-use planning
The need for a credible climate technology policy
Published in Green Alliance publication Conservatism in a changing climate: Security, prosperity and a low carbon future. Published in February 2010. Climate change will transform the prosperity and security of 60 million Britons. This is true whether climate policy succeeds or fails. If it succeeds the transformation will be in […]
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: New momentum on climate negotiations is now urgently needed
Published in ENDS Report (Issue 420, p49), in January 2010. So what really happened in Copenhagen? And even more importantly, what happens now? Forgive me for troubling you with this topic again, but this was no ordinary meeting. Konrad von Moltke, the founder of the Institute for European Environment Policy, […]