I’m working on sustainable cost accounting in 2020. Or sustainable cost reporting as it might be renamed, as I realise that means it becomes SCORE.
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There are many reasons to fear a Johnson government and climate is high on the list
Three days to go to the election, and all Boris Johnson does is lie. It’s boring to point it out, again, but he did it
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If we have 12 years to save the planet now is the time for a carbon usage tax – or CUT
As most of the media have reported, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that we really only have twelve years
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A campaign win: the BBC admits giving a platform to climate change deniers is not a part of balanced reporting
Less than a couple of weeks ago some of us spoke about the BBC’s attitude to climate change. Today the Guardian reports: The BBC has accepted it
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Climate change is real. We must not offer credibility to those who deny it
The following letter was published in The Guardian last night under the heading: If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny the reality of human-triggered
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Is China showing us the way to go green?
Larry Elliott is the Guardian’s economics editor. He is beming ever more strident on the need for reform to tackle climate change. This morning he
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Modern monetary theory and environmental taxation
My Cambridge Econometrics colleague, Hector Pollitt, has written a blog post on modern monetary theory and environmental taxation issue that I thought sharing here, with
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Plastics: the best will comply and the rest will free ride
U.K. supermarkets and related businesses are announcing today that they have set themselves a target of ensuring all plastic that they use can be recycled
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The can and bottle recycling charge will be a tax: it must be run as one
As the Guardian reports this morning: All drinks containers in England, whether plastic, glass or metal, will be covered by a deposit return scheme, the
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