December 14, 2015
So How Does It Feel, Mr Prime Minister, Being On The Wrong Side of History?
Amber Rudd, Secretary of State at DECC, was all over the media yesterday, making out that the UK had played a big part in securing the historic agreement in Paris*. Unfortunately,…
October 12, 2015
Paris 2015: The Spirit Moves On
It’s now four months since I first mentioned the People’s Pilgrimage, and its charismatic inspiration Yeb Saño, the former Climate Ambassador for the Philippines (@yebsano on…
July 14, 2015
‘The World We Made’ – Amplifying the Upside
It gets weirder and weirder sitting here in the UK watching our Government systematically destroy the UK renewables industry, knowing that in almost every other country all the…
June 20, 2015
Can Archbishop Welby (a Former Oil Man) Rise to the Pope’s Challenge?
Laudate Si’ has landed! The much-hyped, comprehensively leaked papal encyclical was launched yesterday. I haven’t read it in detail yet, but am absolutely loving all the quotes…
June 7, 2015
The People’s Pilgrimage Gets Under Way
The People’s Pilgrimage kicked off today! This is a truly brilliant idea: “In the coming months, up to December’s climate meeting in Paris, people of faith will show their concern…
June 3, 2015
Nick Stern: ‘Why Are We Waiting?’ Why Indeed?!
Very few people command as much respect in the highly disputatious world of climate change as Nick Stern – Lord Stern to me and you. His blockbuster ‘Review’ in 2006 not only…
December 23, 2014
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything
his is one of the most important books I’ve read for a long time. It’s authoritatively researched, absolutely ‘on the front line’ of the politics of climate change today, profound…
October 8, 2014
ClimateCare’s Queen’s Award
I spent a very happy morning in Oxford yesterday, chairing a little seminar for ClimateCare on its plans through to 2020, and then celebrating the presentation of the Queen’s…
September 23, 2014
Crunching the low-carbon numbers
One of the most frustrating aspects of having to listen to climate change sceptics banging on is their profound economic illiteracy. Anything to do with sustainable energy…
September 17, 2014
Philanthropists and Foundations: Getting Their Climate Act Together
On Monday, a whole page ad appeared in the International New York Times, calling on the world’s philanthropic Trusts and Foundations to start getting their act together on climate…