A conversation with Stephen Colegrave of Byline Times, discussing what consequences climate policy success or failure will have on democratic systems. Without democracy, climate policy will fail. If climate policy fails democracy will die. To stay in power despots have to destroy all the machinery societies have ever invented to […]
GOVERNING THE CLIMATE
We live in turbulent times. Some eight billion of us live in an increasingly connected world. The pace of technology-enabled change is accelerating. This can be both exhilarating, as new opportunities and experiences become accessible, and intimidating, as familiar places and relationships are transformed beyond recognition. This accelerating pace of […]
How does the coronavirus pandemic impact Earth Hour and the way that we think about climate change? – Al Jazeera
Covid-19, Climate, Civilization
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 […]
The record number of fires in the Amazon Rainforest is an international crisis – LBC
What do the wildfires in the Amazon say about the well-being of the planet? – Sky News
Why does the Amazon Rainforest matter so much to us? It matters most immediately because of the impact on climate change which affects every single person on the planet. That’s because as the rainforest burns it puts enormous amounts of additional carbon into the atmosphere. That’s the first impact. But […]
Remarks By Tom Burke at The Prospect Trade Union Energy Summit
Speaking at the UN Economic Commission for Europe meeting on Sustainable Development Goals
. On 22 March, I spoke at the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Europe’s meeting on the Sustainable Development Goals in Geneva, Switzerland. ‘ Thank you for the invitation to share our experience on financing disaster risk reduction in relation to climate change. E3G is a European climate change think […]