Energy Security – Page 19

NO-ONE HOME

On August 25, 2014 By admin

This piece first appeared in BusinessGreen There is no-one at home in Britain’s political parties. Increasingly they are empty shells with ever fewer members. On a good day less than 400,000 people belong to all our political parties combined. That is about 0.5% per cent of the […]

THE POWER OF DREAMS

On July 10, 2014 By admin

This piece first appeared in The Guardian on Thursday 10th July It has always been difficult to see what was attractive about the proposed deal with EDF to build a nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point in Somerset. To bring this […]

SPEECH AT E3G TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION – THE DECK AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE – JULY 2ND 2014.

On July 7, 2014 By admin

REMARKS BY MR TOM BURKE CBE AT THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FOR E3G, THE DECK AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE, JULY 2ND 2014. First of all, let me thank you all for coming this evening. We are celebrating […]

CHINA NIGHTMARE

On July 3, 2014 By admin

This piece first appeared in Business Green The prospect of the Chinese becoming owners, managers and even constructors of nuclear power stations in Britain has caused anxiety in some unexpected places. Both the right and the left, united in their […]

THE FUTURE IS COMING READY OR NOT

On June 6, 2014 By admin

The following speech talks about the looming collision between $6 trillion of investment in oil and gas over the next ten years and the agreement by governments to keep the rise in global temperature below 2°C. This collision will transform the human prospect. It poses a dilemma for governments […]

SPEAKING WITH A FORKED TONGUE

On May 19, 2014 By admin

This article first appeared in Business Green . Last month, under pressure from activist investors, Exxon issued a report to their shareholders on climate change. To no-one’s surprise they found that “none of our hydrocarbon assets are now or will become ‘stranded’”. Some saw this as an important […]

Why Europe matters and why the European elections matter – E3G

On May 14, 2014 By admin

Cities lead the energy transition

On May 1, 2014 By admin

This article first appeared in Revolve Magazine on April 29, 2014 The message at Energy Cities’ annual rendez-vous was clear: cities are the interface with citizens and by default (since cities are growing exponentially around the world) they are the mandatory motors of innovative change to realize the urban energy […]

After you Claude

On April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 By admin

Britons only generate 1.42% of the world’s carbon emissions. No-one else is doing much to reduce their emissions. We are doing a lot and should not do more until everyone else joins in. This is the facile, Treasury inspired, argument […]

‘Events, dear boy, events’ have put climate change back on the agenda

On March 26, 2014 By admin

This article piece first appeared in The Guardian on Wednesday 26 March 2014 The decline of climate change on leaders’ agendas has been reversed – not by new analysis, but two years of extreme weather British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, […]