As the FT notes this morning: Whenever companies address their climate impact, they tend to review their own immediate operations. But widely accepted science-based targets
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The COP 26 crisis is not that we do not know the facts. The crisis is that we have stubborn old men in charge who will not recognise the truth.
From the FT this morning: And most of the world’s leaders – who will be long dead by 2070 – are only planning to get
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Advertising should be on the agenda at COP 26 – because it drives out excess consumption with the sole intention of making us miserable
COP 26 has begun. There are, unfortunately, few signs for optimism. I am not surprised. Whilst I am quite sure that most young people get
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The problem with water companies – and how to solve it
I was asked yesterday by a friend who is an accountant what I thought about the problems in water companies. This was my reply: What
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People really do give a shit
Politics always has the ability to surprise, but some things are constant. As everyone who has ever stood to be a councillor tells me, dog
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If we discount the future we won’t tackle climate change, which seems to be what some economists want
I am unashamedly quoting from the comments made by Nicholas (Lord) Stern noted in the Guardian this morning. As they record: Many economic assessments of
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The new NS&I green bond is priced to fail by a government that really does not want to tackle climate change
As many readers here will know, I have been arguing that savings should be redirected to fund the costs of climate transition for some time.
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HM Treasury is not serious about climate change and its Net-Zero report is the clearest possible indication of that
Having spent yesterday afternoon reading the government’s dismal proposals for new green corporate reporting – where the thinking simply does not add up to a
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The last thing that the UK needed right now was a cut in the VAT on gas
I just posted this thread on Twitter: A cut in the VAT on gas is just about the worst way for this government to achieve
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