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Category Archives: ENDS Report
On Killing Dragons
This article first appeared in the November Issue of The Ends Report Consistency is becoming the rarest of phenomena in public discourse. We have a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economics, ENDS Report, Energy, Energy Security, European, Nuclear, Oil and Gas, Politics
Tagged air pollution, Brussels, businesses, Coalition, conservative, contradiction, economics, election, electricity, energy, energy bills, environment, environment policy, environmental legislation, EU, EU membership, export market, fracking, green, green policies, growth, hospital admissions, influence, investment, money saving, negotiations, NGO, NHS, nuclear, policy, premature death, price freeze, quality of life, referendum, Review of Competences, Whitehall, wind farms
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Renewables threaten fossil fuel interests
This article was first published in the September edition of the ENDS Report. A good 93% of Britons think the climate is changing. Such was the finding of a recent pollby the blog Carbon Brief. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economics, ENDS Report, Energy, Energy Security, Politics
Tagged awareness, carbon, climate, climate makers, climate takers, Copenhagen, decarbonising, Deniers, economy, electricity, fossil fuel, growth, IEA, impacts, instability, IPCC, Obama, paradox, policy, power, Renewables, solar, warming, welfare, wind
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Locked into business as usual in a changing world – ENDS Report August 2013
This column was first published in the ENDS Report August 2013 Conservative Party leaders believe declaring war on the environment and aggressively promoting fracking for shale gas is to their advantage. … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Campaigning, Changing the Politics, ENDS Report, Energy, Energy Security, In the media
Tagged biogas, business, conservative, demand, demonisation, economy, energy, environment, fracking, gas, hostility, media, oil, policy, poverty, Renewables, reputation, risk, shale, solar, strategy, subsidies, tax, Tory, unemployment, war
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President Obama makes canny carbon move – ENDS Report
This article appears in the ENDS Report 462, August 2013, pp. 8-9 23 July 2013 12:49 BST By addressing the issue of “carbon pollution”, the US president is cleverly enabling climate action. But there is still little chance of … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Capture and Storage, ENDS Report, Energy, Politics
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, ENDS Report, Politics
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Tom Burke’s political commentary: Trying to square the carbon price circle
Published in ENDS Report, issue 446, March 2012. Economists like things to be simple. All the world is a market and the men and women merely rational agents. If each plays his part pursuing self-interest then all will be well … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, ENDS Report
Tagged carbon price
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Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: Nucléaire nouvelle génération. Non merci!
Published in the ENDS Report, March 2012 March 11th marks the first anniversary of the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. For 100,000 unfortunate Japanese this brought a sudden end to life as they knew it. They will never return to their … Continue reading
Posted in ENDS Report, Nuclear
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Tom Burke’s political commentary: Durban talks were not a failure for climate policy
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 … Continue reading
Posted in ENDS Report, International
Tagged Durban
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Tom Burke’s political commentary: A tune that bodes ill for environment and growth
Published in ENDS Report 443, p. 52, 20 December, 2011. On Europe and the environment, Cameron and Osborne have advanced arguments in the past month that will only serve to drive a wedge between the Coalition parties. The law of … Continue reading
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Tom Burke’s political commentary: Eurozone turmoil and climate inaction: the twin crises of political will
ENDS Report 442, p. 55, November 2011. The chance to avoid a dangerous rise in temperatures seems likely to be lost in the upcoming UN climate talks in Durban. December, it is turning out, is actually the cruellest month. It … Continue reading
Posted in ENDS Report, European
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