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Should we be optimistic about COP21? – BBC Business Live – 30 Nov 15

On November 30, 2015December 2, 2015 By admin

BBC: I’m joined by Tom Burke former UK government advisor on climate change, now Chairman of the environmental Think Tank E3G, which is Third Generation Environmentalism. So there has been an awful lot of momentum leading up to this event […]

Do people care enough about climate change? – LBC Radio – 29 Nov 15

On November 29, 2015November 29, 2015 By admin

LBC: Tom Burke, Chairman and founding Director of environmental think tank E3G, and former government advisor. Morning Tom, why do people not care enough about the environment? Tom Burke: I think people do care about the environment, and I think they do, in their […]

COP21 Paris climate summit: Climate change is much more than an environmental problem – it threatens our financial stability

On November 29, 2015 By admin

This piece first appeared in CityAM “Climate change is seen as much more than just another environmental problem” Next week Paris will again be the focus of world attention. This time in the face of another global threat to us all: climate change. Over 100 world […]

Discussing Syria, conflict and climate change on Sky News

On November 23, 2015November 23, 2015 By admin

Climate Change is a threat multiplier, and when you have an already stressed situation as you had in Syria, and then you add the extra stress caused by climate change, in this case the very prolonged drought that drove about a million and half people out of […]

What can we expect from COP21? – BBC World Service – Newshour

On November 3, 2015November 4, 2015 By admin

It’s just under a month before the start of COP21, the Paris climate change conference, at which global powers will try to achieve a universal and legally binding treaty to limit Green House Gas emissions. What can realistically be achieved? […]

REMARKS BY MR TOM BURKE CBE – AT THE WORLD ENERGY COUNCIL ENERGY DAY – BERLIN – OCTOBER 1ST 2015

On October 2, 2015 By admin

The speech on Tuesday by Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board is a game changer for climate change. Whatever you thought about the politics or economics of climate change yesterday is now outdated. The world really did change, […]

Energy Transition Commission – some considerations

On September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 By admin

Shell and McKinsey have just launched a global initiative called the Energy Transition Commission. Doubts have been raised about whether the Commission as currently constructed has the integrity to make a positive contribution to the debate on how to keep the climate safe. There is a risk that this […]

Discussing climate change on LBC Radio – 14/09/15

On September 15, 2015September 20, 2015 By admin

Last year was the hottest year on record, and this year is going to be hotter still. What the Met Office is saying is that next year will be even hotter again. People thought there had been a pause in global warming, and […]

Sky News – Climate change and Obama’s trip to the Arctic

On September 1, 2015September 2, 2015 By admin

I think giving people a picture of what’s happening now on the planet is really important, and remember what Obama is talking about is what’s happening in Alaska, but it’s also happening in the glaciers in the Himalayas, in the Alps here in Europe, in Antarctica in Greenland, and […]

Sky News – Obama gives Shell the go ahead for Arctic drilling

On August 30, 2015September 2, 2015 By admin

Obama is going to Alaska because Alaska is on the front line of climate change, and it is where we are seeing the impacts of a changing climate on human beings really dramatically already, right now. Obama wants to draw attention to the fact that it is […]