The UK government issued a cross-department report on what they call a Roadmap to Sustainable Investing today. As they said: The report, entitled Greening Finance: A
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Johnson very clearly remains a climate sceptic opposed to the action required to save our planet
As the Guardian has reported this morning, the government’s headline plan for greening the UK’s housing stock is this: Ministers have unveiled plans for £5,000
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The Earthshot prizes: an exercise in royal greenwashing
I wasted an hour of my life watching the Earthshot awards last night. At least one prize should have been a case for venture capital,
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We need to save for the planet if we want one to live on
As the FT noted this morning: Extreme volatility in energy markets will present a continued risk unless investment in clean power is tripled in the
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Unless we realise that behavioural change is key to our survival we simply won’t make it
Simon Jenkins can be the most annoying of commentators in The Guardian. He can also get things right. He did when discussing the need for
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The Green New Deal is easily affordable if we can persuade people to ‘Save for the planet’, with a little nudge from reformed tax reliefs
In Rishi Sunak’s speech to the Tory party conference last week the word ‘climate’ did not appear at all. Instead, the case that he made
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Is there a need for a new, more moderate, campaign for climate reform?
Rupert Read is assistant-professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia. In the context of this blog he’s better known as a leading green
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Giving tax relief for green savings makes complete sense – especially if the tax relief on other forms of saving is withdrawn
Amongst the papers put out by the IMF in advance of this autumn’s general meeting was this one: It said: The world’s $50 trillion investment
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The government still has to decide who to prioritise: is it people, wages and jobs or landlords and an over-inflated financial system?
I wrote what follows below in May 2020. The coronavirus was then developing – but the reality of lockdown, social distancing and much else was
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