Category Archives: Changing the Politics

Q&A session on the politics of cutting carbon before Cancun

Posted on September 11, 2010 by tomburke

TweetShareQ&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 … Continue reading →

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Climate policy success imperative to achieve global goals

Posted on September 27, 2009 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in The Times, in September 2009. Climate change transforms the landscape of risk and opportunity for countries, for companies and for citizens everywhere. This is equally true whether climate policy succeeds or fails. Policy success means building a carbon … Continue reading →

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Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: It’s time to realise the climate is too big to fail

Posted on August 1, 2009 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in ENDS Report (Issue 415, p48), in August 2009. Climate change poses a systemic risk for humanity, one where a failure causes a cascade of contingent failures which lead to a collapse of a whole system. In this case, … Continue reading →

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Winning the climate war: the role of regulation

Posted on April 1, 2008 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in Green Alliance pamphlet Is there more to life than trading? Seven views on designing a low carbon future, in 2008. Climate change is the defining issue of the twenty first century. If we find the solutions to the … Continue reading →

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Climate change: choosing the tools

Posted on December 21, 2006 by tomburke

TweetShareby Tom Burke. Published on openDemocracy, on 21st December 2006. The right mix of political, technological and economic instruments is essential if the challenge of irreversible climate-change is to be met, says Tom Burke. Since the publication of the Stern report … Continue reading →

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Climate change: time to get real

Posted on September 25, 2006 by tomburke

TweetShareby Tom Burke. Published on openDemocracy, on 25th September 2006. The public argument on climate change has been transformed by a series of recent interventions by scientists. First, James E Hansen, the global doyen of climate scientists, announced that the world … Continue reading →

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Massive surge in disappearance of Arctic sea ice sparks global warning

Posted on September 15, 2006 by tomburke

TweetShareI’m quoted in the article Massive surge in disappearance of Arctic sea ice sparks global warning, by Michael McCarthy and David Usborne, published in The Independent on 15th September 2006. The article reflects on the recent studies observing the accelerated … Continue reading →

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The politics of climate change

Posted on August 1, 2005 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in the Fabian Society’s Autumn 2005: Party Futures. Climate change is not like any of the other problems that politicians must solve as we move this first, and potentially most crucial, century of the fourth millennium. Throughout history, humanity … Continue reading →

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Enigma code

Posted on June 29, 2005 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in The Guardian, on 29th June 2005. Civil servants long ago discovered the infinite elasticity of the English language. It can be greatly stretched to cover the holes where policies should be, providing an essential service to their political … Continue reading →

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Businesses and politicians must plan for a future affected by climate change

Posted on May 30, 2005 by tomburke

TweetShareThis was published by the Carbon Disclosure Project, in May 2005 Climate change will be the dominant issue of the 21st Century. There is now consensus within the scientific community that not only is the problem caused by human activities … Continue reading →

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