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Corporate Social Responsibility debate with Joel Bakan

On March 1, 2005April 10, 2012 By admin

The Ecologist published my debate with Joel Bakan in March 2005, discussing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). My four contributions to the debate can be downloaded (pdf) by following this link, and the whole debate can be accessed by logging into the online archives at The Ecologist.

Turning East

On February 14, 2005April 3, 2012 By admin

Published by ePolitix, in February 2005. The message from the scientists was clear. The world’s climate is in greater trouble than we thought. This, stripped of the detail and caveats, was the powerful conclusion from the 200 scientists who gathered in Exeter at Tony Blair’s invitation at the beginning of […]

Reaction to James Lovelock on nuclear

On December 22, 2004March 13, 2012 By admin

My letter to the editor of Atmospheric Science (Atmos. Sci. Let; 5: 108–109), in reaction to James Lovelock‘s contribution to the Viewpoint section of Something Lurking in the Greenhouse. Published online 22 December 2004 in Wiley InterScience. For the letter, and a response from James Lovelock click here. James Lovelock […]

The Geopolitics of Climate Change

On May 1, 2004March 13, 2012 By admin

by John Ashton and me. Published in SWP Comments (English version of the magazine of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik/The German Institute for International and Security Affairs), Issue 5, published May 2004. This is an abridged version of a presentation given at an INTACT/SWP roundtable on climate change and foreign policy on 4 […]

Corporate responsibility and accountability

On April 11, 2003April 4, 2012 By admin

Published in The Observer, in April 2003. Vultures are ugly birds. A powerful evolutionary logic seems to have ensured that form followed function with an uncanny precision. The sight of a large number of British and American companies squabbling over who will get the choicest pickings from the not quite […]

Remembering Maurice Ash

On March 1, 2003March 13, 2012 By admin

Published in Inside Track, the quarterly magazine of Green Alliance, Issue 4 (Spring 2003). It was very easy to underestimate Maurice. He was a quiet man whose gentleness enveloped him like an overlarge overcoat. But he was as determined as he was gentle and as persistent as the wind. And […]

Ten Pinches of salt: a retort to Bjorn Lomborg

On August 1, 2001April 10, 2012 By admin

My briefing Ten Pinches of Salt published by the Green Alliance, in August 2001. Written as a reaction to the imminent publication of Bjorn Lomborg’s book The Sceptical Environmentalist this briefing offers ten ‘pinches of salt’ to bear in mind as you read the 352 pages and 2,930 footnotes. I explore […]

Twenty years of the Green Alliance

On March 17, 1999April 3, 2012 By admin

Published by Green Alliance, in March 1999. The American general, Colin Powell, kept a list of his 10 precepts for success under the glass top to his desk. One of them was ‘There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you are willing to let others take the credit.’ […]