Now that it is widely recognised that climate change does indeed pose an existential threat to civilisation, there is an accelerating search for new ideas about how best to respond. Not all of them are good. Many of these ideas are well-intentioned searches for ways to accelerate the agonisingly slow […]
Do we have the kind of commitment that we need to fight climate change? – Al Jazeera
The Politics of Climate Change
This article was first published by the Oracle Partnership as one of a series of essays on climate change. 2019 is the year the global conversation on the climate changed. The children’s climate strikes, the arrival of Extinction Rebellion, the EU’s Green New Deal and the importance of climate change […]
UK political parties ramp up focus on climate change and single-use plastics in their manifestos – Bio Market Insights
by Liz Gyekye “Climate change is now acting as a locomotive pulling a train load of other environmental issues further up the political agenda particularly among highly connected millennials.” All the UK’s main political parties have focused on the issues of tackling climate change and single-use plastics in their manifestos. […]
Do we need some base provision from nuclear power if we are to keep the lights on? – Sky News
Politicians Declared a Climate Emergency – Here’s What They’re Really Doing
We should be very concerned that the temperature is twice what it should be at this time of year – BBC News
Financing Decarbonisation of the Global Energy System
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good, please don’t let me be misunderstood
Sky News – Discussing Al Gore’s new film on climate change “An Inconvenient Sequel” – 11 Aug 17
Sky news: With me now in the studio is Tom Burke, a former senior adviser to the foreign secretary’s special representative on climate change, and now the chairman of third generation environmentalism, which encourages sustainable development. First of all, Mr Burke, what do you make of this documentary? […]