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Tag Archives: America
Debate with Myron Ebell on Trump and climate policy – BBC World News – 21 FEB 17
BBC World News: President Trump is preparing two executive orders, aimed at scaling back Obama era policies on climate and water pollution, according to reports that we are seeing in the US media. Over the weekend hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, Business, Climate Change, Conflict, Economics, Economics, Energy, Environment, Finance, In the media, International, Interviews, Migration, Oil and Gas, Politics, renewables
Tagged America, climate, climate agreement, climate change, Congress, denier, Donald Trump, E3G, Elon Musk, EPA, investment, Myron Ebell, Obama, Paris Agreement, pollution, Renewables, scientists, Scott Pruitt, Tom Burke, Trump
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Ladybird Book on climate change by Prince Charles – Sky News – 22 Jan 17
The duty of a constitutional monarch in Britain is to advise warn and encourage, and that is exactly what he is doing with this book [on climate change]. He is advising us about a problem that we really … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Environment, In the media, International, Interviews, Politics, renewables, Sky News, Sustainability
Tagged America, book, carbon, children, China, climate, climate change, energy, extreme weather, floods, low carbon economy, Prince Charles, Renewables, risk, Trump, warning
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2016 is set to be the hottest year on record – BBC News – 14 Nov 16
BBC News: Let’s talk to Tom Burke, Chairman of the environment think tank E3G, also a former government advisor on climate change. Thanks for being with us. So, 2016 looks … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, Business, Climate Change, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, In the media, International, People, Politics, renewables, Security, Sustainability
Tagged 2 degrees, America, BBC News, carbon, China, climate, climate change, economy, electric vehicles, emissions, energy, energy revolution, Kyoto, leadership, money, opportunity, Paris Agreement, Renewables, temperature, Trump
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The End of Oil? – BBC World Service – Newshour Extra – 8 Jan16
The drop in oil price is not doing something that a lot of people thought that it would do, when it fell that low, which is to create a big stimulus to … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, Business, Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Conflict, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, European, Finance, International, Oil and Gas, People, Politics, renewables, The Human Cost
Tagged agreement, America, Britain, business, capitalism, car, carbon, cars, cheaper, climate, climate change, conflict, corporations, cost, economic, economy, electric, environment, environmental, Europe, extreme weather, fossil fuel, gas, governments, growth, impact, industry, investment, leadership, low-carbon, market, Merkel, Obama, oil, oil price, Paris, pension, political, public, Renewables, revenue, revenues, risk, security, solar, stability, States, tax, technologies, technology, tension, transition, vehicles, weather, wind
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Sky News – Climate change and Obama’s trip to the Arctic
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, European, In the media, International, Interviews, Oil and Gas, People, Politics, renewables, Sky News
Tagged Alaska, alternative energy, America, authority, carbon, cities, climate change, contradiction, credibility, emissions, energy, energy efficiency, environmentalists, Europe, fossil fuel, glaciers, global warming, green, green policies, green policy, hypocrisy, ice, leadership, low carbon energy, low-carbon, melt, Obama, Paris 2015, president, Prime Minister, Renewables, sea level rise, Shell, Whaling
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SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE
This piece first appeared in Business Green. Environmentalists have long been vulnerable to their own passions. At times this can make us sound shrill and self-righteous. On other occasions it can blind us to political traps. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Business Green, Campaigning, Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, Environment, European, International, Oil and Gas, Politics, renewables, Sustainability
Tagged agriculture, America, bills, business model, carbon, carbon neutral, carbon price, carbon pricing, Christiana Figueres, climate, climate change, Clinton, consumer, decarbonisation, deforestation, dogma, economy, emissions, energy policy, environmentalists, Europe, Financial Times, investment, leadership, low-carbon, Obama, oil, oil industry, policy, political, pollution, Renewables, risk, tax, taxes, technology, threat, trap, UNFCCC, weather, weather events, zero carbon
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CLIMATE: National security concerns could spur Hill action — ex-DOD officials?
This is a report by Environment & Energy Publishing of the panel I spoke on at the Atlantic Council event Climate Security: The Next ‘Battle Ground’? on June 17, 2015 in Washington DC The reporter misheard what I said about America. What I actually … Continue reading
Posted in Changing the Politics, Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, International, Sustainability, The Human Cost
Tagged America, Atlantic Council, Bangladesh, Churchill, climate, climate change, climate security, Congress, cost, crisis, defense, energy, food, humanitarian, investment, legislation, migration, military, national security, obstacles, Pentagon, policy, progress, risk, security, strategy, sustainable, UN, Washington, water, Winston Churchill
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TROUBLE AHEAD
This piece first appeared in BusinessGreen # The political argument for trade liberalisation has always been that it is good for the economy. This argument was losing traction even when what was good … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Business, Business Green, Changing the Politics, Economics, Environment, European, International, Politics
Tagged America, arbitration, business, commercial, compensation, Congress, cost, economy, environment, environmental policy, EU, Europe, European, freedom, Germany, goods, health, investment, Investor State Disputes Settlement, ISDS, law, legislation, nuclear power, policy, public policy, regulations, Regulatory Coherence Council, risk, secrecy, takings, tariffs, trade, trade policy, transatlantic trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, trust, TTIP, US, Vatenfall
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‘Events, dear boy, events’ have put climate change back on the agenda
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Business, Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, International, Politics, The Guardian
Tagged 2 degrees, 2C, America, Australia, awareness, Ban Ki Moon, Bangladesh, banking crisis, Brazil, California, carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophe, Chancellor Merkel, China, climate change, climate events, climate legislation, climate science, climate summit, CO2, Copenhagen, cost, damage, disaster, economy, extreme, extreme events, extreme weather, extreme weather events, flood, flooding, floods, fossil fuels, global, global temperatures, Harold Macmillan, heat, Hollande, Hurricane Sandy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Macmillan, Merkel, Obama, Paris 2015, Philippines, planet, policy, policy makers, political landscape, President Hollande, President Obama, science, St Jude, storm, storms, temperatures, The Guardian, transform, urgency, Vietnam, warmer, warming, weather events, worldwide
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