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CCC’s response to Owen Paterson’s speech to the GWPF

On October 16, 2014October 16, 2014 By admin

The BBC and the right wing press have been making much of Owen Paterson’s anti-climate speech this week. It is a farrago of nonsense. The Climate Change Committee has produced an excellent briefing detailing why it is so wrong. It includes a number of important points that Adair Turner […]

THE FRAGILE CITY AND THE RISK NEXUS

On August 27, 2014September 3, 2014 By admin

This is a new short book I have written with leading urbanist Charles Landry. It brings together for the first time two disconnected narratives. The first is about the future of the cities in which half the […]

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 […]

‘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, […]

Debate on climate change with John Redwood MP – Sky News 11th Feb 2014

On February 12, 2014 By admin

This clip first appeared on Sky News on 11 February with John Redwood MP on climate change. Tom Burke: “There is no doubt at all that this is exactly what climate scientists and environmentalists have been saying to governments for years would happen if you went on allowing […]

BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight – Segment on Rio+20

On June 1, 2012 By admin

I was on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight last night, talking about Rio+20 with Bernice Lee of Chatham House and Andrew Hurrell of the University of Oxford. Click here to listen to the programme. The Rio+20 segment starts at about 33 minutes in, and our discussion at 35 minutes.

Tom Burke’s political commentary: Durban talks were not a failure for climate policy

On January 23, 2012March 13, 2012 By admin

ENDS Report 444, p. 45, January 2012. The latest round of UN climate talks made important progress in a number of areas, including Green Fund governance and the Clean Development Mechanism. Durban did not fail. That is by far and away the most important outcome from the latest round of […]

Tom Burke’s political commentary: Nixon’s environmentalism is a lesson from history

On July 26, 2011March 13, 2012 By admin

ENDS Report 438, p. 55, July 2011. Under President Richard Nixon, the US led the world in environmental protection. But his ideologically driven heirs in the Tea Party threaten to destroy this legacy. Modern environmentalism began in the US. In September, Friends of the Earth (FoE) UK will celebrate its […]

Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: New momentum on climate negotiations is now urgently needed

On January 1, 2010April 11, 2012 By admin

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, […]

Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: Slouching away from Copenhagen: a terrible beauty was stillborn

On December 1, 2009April 11, 2012 By admin

Published in ENDS Report (Issue 419, p55), in December 2009. They came. They tried. They failed. Not one of the 119 world leaders who attended the Copenhagen summit came intending to shatter a global climate regime so painfully built over 20 years. But that is what they accomplished. Do not […]