Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have prevaricated to appease the far-right media on London’s ULEZ (ultra low emission zone) even though it is intended
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Gove proves the Tories are still on the side of big money when it comes to the environment
As many report this morning, and as summarised by Politico in its morning email (which I recommend): Leveling-Up Secretary Michael Gove is set to announce
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Neoclassical economists are the last people to listen to on climate change
I read this post by my Green New Deal colleague, and friend, Ann Pettifor, yesterday, and with her permission, I share it here because it
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There are Tories mad enough to promote a referendum on climate change
I found myself utterly bemused by this tweet: https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/1692055830911177209?s=66&t=fQEnD35XLiGihXLT1M1wyA I know that Brexit was used to give the elderly the chance to well and truly
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Why has government funding for renewables run into a brick wall?
As the FT notes this morning: Swedish developer Vattenfall spent years developing plans for almost 140 turbines across a 725km-squared patch [of the North Sea
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A feast of fools
My old friend Alan Simpson, who was a Labour MP when we first met, sent me this over the weekend. I thought it worth sharing,
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Carbon capture and storage
I have never believed in carbon capture and storage. I doubt I ever will. I do, however, believe in government capture. So do the makers
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The present is unsustainable. Oil and banking have made it so. Something is going to have to change.
The Bank of England meets this week to consider raising interest rates, yet again. The consensus of opinion is that they will do so by
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Sunak is turning up the heat and the anger may be hard to constrain
There was always going to be a moment when the far-right would try to mount a backlash against the inevitable progress of the climate change
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