As the Guardian note today: The millions of gas boilers in the UK’s homes produce twice as much climate-heating carbon emissions as all the nation’s
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Starmer really does not get the Green New Deal – and won’t be delivering it
Keir Starmer’s vision pamphlet for the Fabian Society is deeply disappointing. This is the bit on what green investment might achieve: He adds this: What
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Time Mirror asks the question should we account for the costs of climate change upfront?
It’s the sort of day when blogging cannot be high on my agenda. That’s because today and tomorrow see the launch meeting of the Time
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The accounting profession is failing us all on climate change
The FT has this to say this morning: The research is by Carbon Tracker and I cannot, as yet, find it on their site, but
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The fictional markets in environmental assets that the financiers are dreaming up are not going to solve the climate crisis
One of the features of sustainable cost accounting that its critics are not to keen on is my suggestion that offsetting not be permitted within
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It’s time the extractive industries came to terms with stranded assets
New research from Carbon Tracker on stranded assets – those resources that cannot be used by extractive industries companies if the planet is to survive –
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A research agenda
It is slightly strange to be on a train this morning. I have hardly been on any since March 2020. It’s also strange to be
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The QuEST for a Green New Deal in the Guardian
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague Colin Hines has this letter in the Guardian: Andy Beckett is right to find some
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The environment is now the number two issue of public concern
The Ipsos MORI Issues Index for August 2021 shows public concern about the environment has jumped sixteen percentage points over last month’s Index. This could,
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