Tag: energy efficiency

A GREEN RECOVERY NEEDS GREEN MONEY

Posted on July 8, 2020July 9, 2020 by tomburke

The Prime Minister’s speech last week was an underwhelming contribution to the green recovery. The credibility of this promise, and

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Can we have a rapid economic recovery and green investment? – Sky News

Posted on May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 by tomburke

If what you want to do is to get your economy to recover really fast, what you have got do

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Listen to the Canaries

Posted on May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 by tomburke

Outside of the global wars of the twentieth century humanity has never experienced a shock as sudden or as profound

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Are government targets to tackle climate change ambitious enough? – Sky News

Posted on February 4, 2020February 5, 2020 by tomburke

I was actually rather disappointed that there weren’t more announcements this morning. It’s very good to be bringing forward getting

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REMARKS BY TOM BURKE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE WORLD NUCLEAR INDUSTRY REPORT 2019 – CHATHAM HOUSE

Posted on January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 by tomburke

At a time when truth is under systematic political attack and digital technologies are collapsing the public attention span, the

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More power in Britain came from renewables than fossil fuels in 2019 – Sky News

Posted on January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 by tomburke

Here are some excerpts of the interview I did for Sky News about the announcement from the National Grid that

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The UK must steer the Paris Agreement out of its ‘perilous decade’ – Climate Home News

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 by tomburke

Demands for action are outstripping political will. The diplomatic task of bringing the expectations gap falls to the hosts of

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Is this the end of fracking? – LBC

Posted on October 13, 2019October 15, 2019 by tomburke

I did an interview for LBC on Sunday 13th October with Ian Payne. The discussion was “Is this the end

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Are Extinction Rebellion protesters just annoying, or are they informing, and making a point? – LBC

Posted on October 12, 2019October 15, 2019 by tomburke

I did an interview for LBC on Saturday 12th October with Clive Bull. The discussion was “Are Extinction Rebellion protesters

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Greta Thunberg is not being overly pessimistic about the urgency of climate change – Sky News

Posted on September 23, 2019September 24, 2019 by tomburke

Here are some excerpts of the interview with Sky News about whether Greta Thurnberg’s speech about climate change was overly

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