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…
August 21, 2014
Different Visions Of The Future
I’ve just finished reading a little tract by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway called “The Collapse of Western Civilisation: a View from the Future”. Not a very cheery title! And a…
May 8, 2014
Systems Thinking in Princeton and Beyond
In the north-west corner of Greenland, there’s a community of a few hundred Inuit people in a place called Qaanaaq. They don’t spend a lot of time talking about the theory of…
April 28, 2014
Offsetting Breakthroughs
Offsetting remains so controversial – but I spent quite some time last week wondering why. And that’s because it was a great week for ‘offsetting done well’. First up was the…