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Will Conservative Chaos Halt the Green Agenda? – Byline Times

On January 19, 2022January 25, 2022 By admin

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, […]

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

On February 4, 2020February 5, 2020 By admin

I was actually rather disappointed that there weren’t more announcements this morning. It’s very good to be bringing forward getting rid of the vehicle internal combustion engine. But if we are going to ask the rest of the world to do more about climate change, we have got to meet […]

Can something substantive be achieved at COP21? – BBC 5 Live – 30 Nov 15

On November 30, 2015 By admin

BBC: Now let’s speak to Tom Burke, Chairman of environmental think tank E3G. He was government special advisor to the climate secretary John Gummer, and attended the Rio Earth Summit and the first of the meeting in Berlin in that role. You’ve attended a […]

CLIMATE: National security concerns could spur Hill action — ex-DOD officials?

On June 18, 2015June 22, 2015 By admin

This is a report by Environment & Energy Publishing of the panel I spoke on at the Atlantic Council event Climate Security: The Next ‘Battle Ground’? on June 17, 2015 in Washington DC The reporter misheard what I said about America. What I actually said was: ‘Winston Churchill, who had an American mother, once […]

SPEECH AT E3G TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION – THE DECK AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE – JULY 2ND 2014.

On July 7, 2014 By admin

REMARKS BY MR TOM BURKE CBE AT THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FOR E3G, THE DECK AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE, JULY 2ND 2014. First of all, let me thank you all for coming this evening. We are celebrating […]