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A carbon club?

On February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 By admin

Now that it is widely recognised that climate change does indeed pose an existential threat to civilisation, there is an accelerating search for new ideas about how best to respond. Not all of them are good. Many of these ideas are well-intentioned searches for ways to accelerate the agonisingly slow […]

UK’s nuclear future hangs on electricity tax

On January 21, 2020January 22, 2020 By admin

by Paul Brown The new British prime minister, Boris Johnson, must soon decide whether to save the UK’s nuclear future with an unpopular electricity tax. LONDON, 21 January, 2020 ? Pressure is mounting on the UK’s new Conservative government to rescue its nuclear programme through an electricity tax, to throw […]

The Politics of Climate Change

On January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 By admin

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 […]

Politicians Declared a Climate Emergency – Here’s What They’re Really Doing

On June 11, 2019June 12, 2019 By admin

. Parliament declared a climate change crisis in May, but experts worry that it’s just PR-friendly sloganeering. . By Simon Roach | 11 June 2019, 12:14pm . Take the example of the SNP leader of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. Speaking at her party’s conference in April, the first minister told the […]

Inheritance: Give it up or pass it on? – Radio 4

On November 7, 2018November 9, 2018 By admin

Bronwen Maddox meets the environmentalist Tom Burke, who plans to pass on the majority of his legacy to his passion: supporting bird life. Tom was brought up on a council estate in Plymouth, and didn’t inherit any money from his parents. He says hard work, luck and the property price […]

IEA projection of oil consumption peak goes against what many in the industry believe – Share Radio

On November 16, 2016November 16, 2016 By admin

Share Radio: Let’s take a look at oil, because oil consumption is tipped to peak no sooner than 2040, even if the Paris climate agreement is implemented, that is according to the outlook of the International Energy Agency, the IEA. This projection […]

The End of Oil? – BBC World Service – Newshour Extra – 8 Jan16

On January 8, 2016January 11, 2016 By admin

The drop in oil price is not doing something that a lot of people thought that it would do, when it fell that low, which is to create a big stimulus to economic growth. So it’s not succeeded in doing that, and […]

What can we expect from COP21? – BBC World Service – Newshour

On November 3, 2015November 4, 2015 By admin

It’s just under a month before the start of COP21, the Paris climate change conference, at which global powers will try to achieve a universal and legally binding treaty to limit Green House Gas emissions. What can realistically be achieved? […]

WHAT’S IN A WORD 3

On September 13, 2015September 14, 2015 By admin

John Hutton is Chairman of the Nuclear Industries Association. On August 24th he told the Radio 4 Today audience that “The nuclear programme is going to be built without any state funding at all”. Sitting next to him in the studio I nearly fell off my […]

SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE

On August 17, 2015August 17, 2015 By admin

This piece first appeared in Business Green. Environmentalists have long been vulnerable to their own passions. At times this can make us sound shrill and self-righteous. On other occasions it can blind us to political traps. The oil industry is now busy setting a big one […]