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COP21: Paris climate deal ‘more likely’ after terror attacks

On November 29, 2015 By admin

By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News, Paris Nearly 150 global leaders are gathering in Paris amid tight security for a critical UN climate meeting. The conference, known as COP21, starts on Monday and will try to craft a long-term deal to limit carbon emissions. Observers […]

Discussing Syria, conflict and climate change on Sky News

On November 23, 2015November 23, 2015 By admin

Climate Change is a threat multiplier, and when you have an already stressed situation as you had in Syria, and then you add the extra stress caused by climate change, in this case the very prolonged drought that drove about a million and half people out of […]

What can we expect from COP21? – BBC World Service – Newshour

On November 3, 2015November 4, 2015 By admin

It’s just under a month before the start of COP21, the Paris climate change conference, at which global powers will try to achieve a universal and legally binding treaty to limit Green House Gas emissions. What can realistically be achieved? […]

Nuclear Cost – Letter to The Times, October 19 2015

On October 19, 2015 By admin

The Times, letters, October 19 2015 To slash and burn renewable investment for the sake of costly support for new nuclear plants is unwise Sir, George Osborne assumes that energy demand will increase (“Nuclear deal with China is threat to UK […]

Energy Transition Commission – some considerations

On September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 By admin

Shell and McKinsey have just launched a global initiative called the Energy Transition Commission. Doubts have been raised about whether the Commission as currently constructed has the integrity to make a positive contribution to the debate on how to keep the climate safe. There is a risk that this […]

Sky News – Climate change and Obama’s trip to the Arctic

On September 1, 2015September 2, 2015 By admin

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 the Alps here in Europe, in Antarctica in Greenland, and […]

SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE

On August 17, 2015August 17, 2015 By admin

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. The oil industry is now busy setting a big one […]

Blue Sky Thinking – BBC Radio 5 Live

On August 12, 2015August 12, 2015 By admin

I think that government has got far too centralised, it started under Thatcher, was taken further forward by Labour, and the level of centralisation has now really got quite ridiculous. I would want to push a lot more power and authority, certainly over finance, out […]

Obama’s climate plan on Sky News – 03/08/15

On August 4, 2015August 4, 2015 By admin

It is really important that America has now set itself out to lead on climate, and to demonstrate leading by taking action. It has been a laggard, and therefore other countries have been able to hide behind it, that shield has now been removed. I suspect […]

G7 fossil fuel pledge is a diplomatic coup for Germany’s ‘climate chancellor’ – The Guardian

On June 9, 2015June 9, 2015 By admin

I was quoted extensively in an article in The Guardian by Karl Mathiesen on why the plan outlined by the G7 on Monday to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century is, for some member countries, not quite as ambitious as it sounds. Tom […]