. . Climate change is a bit like diabetes, it’s a progressive disease. The earlier you do something about it,…
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Politicians Declared a Climate Emergency – Here’s What They’re Really Doing
. Parliament declared a climate change crisis in May, but experts worry that it’s just PR-friendly sloganeering. . By Simon…
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What have the Extinction Rebellion protests achieved? – LBC – 20 APR 19
. This is a transcript of an interview I did for LBC with Matt Frei, discussing what has been achieved…
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Remarks By Tom Burke at The Prospect Trade Union Energy Summit
. Remarks by Tom Burke at The Prospect Energy Summit, Birdcage Walk, London On April 4th 2019. . Thank you…
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A CLIMATE OF TRUST
The core argument of this lecture is that failure of climate change policy represents an existential threat to civilisation that…
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Climate justice and development – The Oxford Forum on International Development
There are three key points I want to make about climate justice and development. The first is that climate change…
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Warning that climate change could cause the collapse of civilisation – Sky News
There’s no doubt at all that we have the technology, and if we wanted to, we could deploy it in…
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Speech to The Global Engineering Congress at the Institute of Civil Engineers – 24 October 18
REMARKS BY TOM BURKE CBE TO THE GLOBAL ENGINEERING CONGRESS INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, LONDON WEDNESDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2018 Thank…
Continue ReadingNo Need for Nuclear. The renewables are here – Conway Hall, London 17 June 2017
There is a very broad National consensus about what we want our energy policy to do, what the…
Continue ReadingSky News – Discussing Al Gore’s new film on climate change “An Inconvenient Sequel” – 11 Aug 17
Sky news: With me now in the studio is Tom Burke, a former senior adviser to the foreign…
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