January 28, 2021
2021: Make or break for the UK’s climate strategy
For all sorts of reasons, UK politicians do at last seem to have grasped that we are in the midst of an out-and-out Climate Emergency. Despite people’s worst fears that the whole…
September 23, 2020
Getting on board with the renewables revolution
The world is on fire (literally) on account of accelerated climate change, and the world of renewables is on fire (metaphorically) in response to accelerated climate change. More…
June 10, 2020
High Stakes for a low carbon future
In the third of our Corporate Leadership in the time of Corona series, Jonathon Porritt looks at the way companies in the energy sector are either digging in to protect their…
December 9, 2019
Friends of the Earth’s Disgraceful Manifesto Analysis
As a former Director of Friends of the Earth, I can say with certain knowledge that FoE is an organisation that makes its fair share of mistakes – as much under my watch as under…
July 4, 2019
Saying No to BP and Shell Today: Hard Choices Have to be Made
I was asked recently about the point at which I decided I could no longer continue to do any work with BP. This is what I said: ’I worked closely with senior leaders in BP for…
June 30, 2019
Solar-enhanced Biodiversity!
So who’d have thought it: solar power is good for biodiversity! Or, to be a little bit more accurate, ‘well-designed and well-managed’ solar parks are good for biodiversity. I…
January 20, 2019
Yet More Nails in the Nuclear Coffin
Were it not for blanket Brexit, smothering every other news item, I suspect there would have been a lot more coverage of the recent collapse of Hitachi’s nuclear pretensions here…
April 24, 2018
Nuclear Power in the USA: Going, Going …
When the biggest nuclear operator in the US says that the nuclear power industry in the US is, to all intents and purposes, DEAD, then we should probably take notice. Here are the…
February 19, 2018
EdF’s Latest Nuclear Bullshit
It’s not often that nuclear matters make me laugh out loud. But yesterday provided one such occasion, on reading of the latest announcement from EdF that a new ‘optimised reactor’…
November 4, 2017
Small Modular Reactors: The Nuclear Industry’s Latest Pipe Dream
You’ve got to hand it to the nuclear industry: they’re one resilient bunch of never-say-die hard-arses! By any standards, 2017 has been an annus horribilis for the industry, with…