Citigroup are not often listed in the pantheon of environmental campaigning organisations. Even among bankers they have a reputation for being hardnosed. So it was with some interest that I recently came across a report on the solar industry they published earlier this year. It should have received […]
OF WOODS AND TREES
No-one one would normally look for an insightful breakthrough on global issues inside a G8 communique. These are typically boilerplate texts, long on noble aspirations and short on actionable commitments. This year’s version does however contain an important, and largely overlooked, sentence with significant implications. Buried way down […]
House of Commons Energy Bill debate – Monday 3rd June 2013
CONTRA BUTLER – A response to Nick Butler’s FT blog
The environment is off the metro-land agenda – ENDS Report June 2013
This column features in the recently published ENDS Report A review of the weak environmental machinery of the government is needed to counter the growing influence of the Treasury. Whether the UK Independence Party’s surge in the local elections really is the seismic event in British politics that the […]
The futility of trying to control climate change through a carbon price
NUCLEAR NONSENSE 2
NUCLEAR NONSENSE 1.
Letter to the Sunday Telegraph – MPs and academics call for National Audit Office to review nuclear negotiations
ENDS REPORT – What is killing bees?
This column features in the recently published ENDS Report ‘Neonicitinoid’ is more than a difficult word to roll your tongue around. The neonicitinoids are a class of neuro-active insecticides that came into widespread use in the late nineties. They are now at the heart of a debate that again pits […]