In the midst of the confusion created by Boris Johnson, Nadine Dorries and others, it was easy to overlook the contribution to the climate crisis
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Funding the Future
I did a podcast of my talk on the above theme to Co-op Wales made a few weeks ago now to mark Robert Owen Day,
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New York and a fog of toxic fumes tells a story the US has yet to come to terms with
The FT reported this morning that: Reports and images from New York look and sound grim. But, this is in the country of climate change denial.
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The government can’t keep issuing green bonds and not say what they’re being used for
It is now more than a year since National Savings and Investments began issuing three-year ‘green’ savings bonds. The current offer is at a fixed
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If there is no future for cheap flights why are people investing in airlines that are bound to fail in the future?
As the FT notes this morning: New climate-friendly biofuels will “never achieve the price of jet fuel”, Boeing chief Dave Calhoun has warned, pouring cold
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Will we ever see the change in consumer behaviour that climate change demands?
As the Guardian notes this morning: It would seem that just as St Augustine once prayed that he might be celibate, but not just yet,
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New York is sinking, and its bankers could go down with it
As the Guardian reported yesterday: New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed
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Carbon offsetting is just an excuse for inaction: real change to business processes is needed
I noted the Guardian reporting this week that: Adverts that claim products are carbon neutral using offsets are to be banned by the UK’s advertising
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What a President might say that a monarch cannot
I noted an excellent speech made by Irish President Michael Higgins late last week. Given at the 20th anniversary of the Irish think tank TASC,
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