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Companies serious about climate change should boycott CoP 29
April 3, 2024
At some point over the next couple of months, Chief Sustainability Officers will be making decisions and recommendations about this year's CoP in Azerbaijan at the end of the year. My advice to them: spare yourselves the hassle. Just don't send anyone.
Mainstream Climate Science: The New Denialism?
Climate Change,Government,Society,Politics,Young People,COP27
March 7, 2024
This is a bit of a long one! So here’s my “Executive Summary” so you can decide whether to commit the time to the rest of it: mainstream climate scientists run the risk of becoming the new climate deniers.
More than £28bn: Chronic Political Failure in Tragic Times.
Climate Change,Politics,Energy
February 22, 2024
Now that the dust has settled after the Labour Party junked its commitment (on 8th February) to £28bn a year of new investment in the UK’s green economy, it’s worth reflecting on what this tells us about climate politics in the UK over the next couple of years. It’s not pretty.
CRUSHING DISSENT: TORIES, LABOUR AND MAINSTREAM NGOs ALL ON THE SAME PAGE
Climate Change,Government,Society,Politics,Young People
February 5, 2024
First they came for Just Stop Oil; then they came for radical environmentalists; then they came for members of the National Trust, the RSPB, and WWF. But there was no one left to speak for them. I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m astonished at the lack of concern/interest on the part of “mainstream…
EDF: A Total Basket Case, Weighed Down By Its £50 Billion Nuclear Turkey At Hinkley Point.
Energy,News,Innovation,Nuclear
January 25, 2024
EdF’s bosses must be thanking their lucky stars that President Macron decided to take complete control of EdF back in 2022. Otherwise, its latest announcements about further delays and cost increases for its new reactors at Hinkley Point would have sent any remaining investors running for the…
UK’S NUCLEAR OBSESSIONS KILL OFF ITS NET ZERO STRATEGY
Uncategorized,Politics,Energy,Nuclear,Net Zero
January 18, 2024
After 14 years of Tory mismanagement, the UK finds itself bereft of an energy strategy. This was finally confirmed in the release last week of the Government’s new Nuclear Roadmap. At one level, it’s just the same old, same old, the latest in a very long line of PR-driven, more or less fantastical…