BYLINE FESTIVAL PANEL: WHAT NEXT AFTER COP?

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BYLINE FESTIVAL PANEL: WHAT NEXT AFTER COP? WITH TOM BURKE, GABRIELLE WALKER, THOMAS PERRETT AND MARK STEVENSON, CHAIRED BY MALINI MEHRA Saturday, April 30, 2022 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Byline Festival: Media Circus Acklam Village London W10 United Kingdom I am speaking at the Byline Festival this weekend. “What […]

The current political theatre is a problem for the UK green agenda – Sky News

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The current political theatre is a real problem for the green agenda in the UK on two counts: firstly, because the Prime Minister has made it such a signature issue for him, that it then becomes and obvious target for those people who want to succeed him, and secondly, because […]

Will Conservative Chaos Halt the Green Agenda? – Byline Times

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The cameras are gone. The tented city on the banks of the Clyde have been dismantled. Political misconduct reoccupies the headlines. COP26 is over and climate change is no longer prominent in the public conversation. Was the UN summit last November, as former US Secretary of State John Kerry claimed, […]

Climate change: Zero carbon emission flights on the horizon thanks to hydrogen aircraft plans, UK government hopes

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Zero carbon emission flights could be on the horizon thanks to new plans for a liquid hydrogen-powered plane, the government has said. A midsize aircraft is being designed to carry 279 passengers at the same speed and comfort as today’s airliners and it is hoped it could fly from London […]

COP26: All you need to know – Highgrade Media

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At COP26 I think we did better than I’d expected and nothing like good enough, is my general feeling. I think the tone was interesting, rather than the specifics of the outcome – which everybody’s commentaries focused on – the tone was interesting, because it was a much greater sense […]

Trump says PM is making a big mistake backing wind power. He is wrong. – GB News

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To focus on public subsidies for renewables is only telling part of the truth. The rest of the truth is that we also subsidize our existing fossil fuel industries, BP and Shell and others like them around the world still get subsidies. Every nuclear power station on the planet gets […]

Beyond COP26. The EU and the UK join forces to reach net zero – EEAS

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COP26 certainly wasn’t a flop. It didn’t take us to where we need to get to, but it did take us a step forward into the really hard work of delivering on the Paris Agreement. So, I think that it took us somewhere. I think what surprised people was the […]

COP26 has made progress but we are not where we need to be – LBC

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What we have from COP26 so far is another draft, we haven’t actually got an outcome yet. There is another whole period of negotiation going on as we run through the day, which is all pretty normal. I am more hopeful than I was at the beginning of the COP […]

There are positives to take away from COP26 – A News

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I think that it would be quite wrong to say that COP26 is just another summit that hasn’t led anywhere. It has led somewhere, but it hasn’t led us to where we need to be. I think the ministerial segment at the start gave quite a lot of political impetus […]

Tom Burke – E3G – Climate change is impacting our lives right now – Talk Radio

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COP26 has certainly achieved something, it’s just not achieved enough. I think we are continuing to turn the corner we started turning in Paris. We are moving from a policy where we are trying to constrain things, to one in which were increasingly trying to take the opportunities of solving […]