Obama – Page 3 – Tom Burke

Environmentalist

‘Events, dear boy, events’ have put climate change back on the agenda

On March 26, 2014 By admin

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 British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, […]

MAKERS AND TAKERS

On March 20, 2014 By admin

This article first appeared in Business Green. The public discourse on climate policy is asymmetric. It has been dominated by the climate makers. These are the fossil fuel industries and their customers. This has led to a badly distorted portrayal of climate policy risk. As a […]

Renewables threaten fossil fuel interests

On September 26, 2013 By admin

This article was first published in the September edition of the ENDS Report. A good 93% of Britons think the climate is changing. Such was the finding of a recent pollby the blog Carbon Brief. This is as close as polling can ever get to ‘everyone’. Nor […]

Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: New momentum on climate negotiations is now urgently needed

On January 1, 2010April 11, 2012 By admin

Published in ENDS Report (Issue 420, p49), in January 2010. So what really happened in Copenhagen? And even more importantly, what happens now? Forgive me for troubling you with this topic again, but this was no ordinary meeting. Konrad von Moltke, the founder of the Institute for European Environment Policy, […]

Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: The US returns from the green policy wilderness

On November 1, 2008April 11, 2012 By admin

Published in ENDS Report (Issue 406, p53), in November 2008. The US is back. The missing voice from the world’s environmental conversation has returned. It has been missing for a long time. Longer than you think. It is nearly 30 years since the world last looked to the US for […]