I originally wrote this post as a Twitter thread in 2022. It was then posted on this blog and was checked by energy expert Mike
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Is Brussels backing away from making companies resposible for their climate impact?
This is very troubling from Politico Europe: BRUSSELS — A rule forcing companies to measure and report the environmental damage they cause is at risk
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It is action versus inaction that matters now. Everything else is a sideshow.
The Telegraph has issued an email this morning that states: Ed Miliband’s claim that net zero will create hundreds of thousands industrial jobs is vastly
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Slogans are not enough: need has to be met
My Green New Deal colleague, Colin Hines, has this post on the Green Alliance blog this morning. I reproduce it with his permission: The rise
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Oh shit
As the FT has noted this morning: At least half of Thames Water’s sewage plants lack the pipes and tanks to process enough waste water,
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Hints of dissent
This came from The Guardian, later yesterday: Senior Labour figures are warning of a serious fight if Keir Starmer tries to give the go-ahead to a giant
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Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable. Will that crash the housing market?
Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable. Will this crash the housing market? There are strong signs it will unless the government takes action. Note:
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Will Heathrow every have a third runway?
I was discussing the approval of a new runway at Heathrow with an old friend yesterday. We agreed that even if this runway were built,
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Reeves can take on nature and alienate millions by doing so
Rachel Reeves said this today: The problems in our economy, the lack of bold reform that we have seen over decades, can be summed up
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