The FT has started an article with these images this morning: I do, of course, agree. As Colin Hines and I, working as Finance for
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We need green quantitative easing
As the Guardian and thirty other newspapers around the world this morning argue in a joint editorial to mark COP27: Solving the crisis is the
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Jacob Rees Mogg admits that QE has cancelled more than £800 billion of government debt. Now we need to discuss the consequences.
Jacob Rees Mogg gave a quite extraordinary interview on Sky this morning, seeking to justify Liz Truss’s plan to cut taxes by £30 billion and
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We live in a world of scarce resources that we must preserve. Could someone tell Truss, Sunak and Starmer?
The EU agreed to ration gas yesterday. In the UK regulators are urging us to be careful with water because it is now in very
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If only the Green New Deal Group had been listened to in 2008 a lot of the current cost-of-living crisis need not have happened
This morning the Business and Energy Select Committee has issued a report staying: In 2008 the Green New Deal Group, of which I am a
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We need a Green New Deal, more than ever
Before getting Covid last week I met with some members of the Green New Deal Group to discuss strategy. The sad conclusion was that no
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The FTSE 100’s audits and climate change: a sorry tale of the Big 4 ducking the issue
Growing concerns about the impact of climate-change on business performance have increased demand for greater climate-related disclosures at large companies. The quality of those disclosures,
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What can we do about a government that is in denial of climate change? Very little, except boot them out.
As the Guardian notes this morning: The government is failing to enact the policies needed to reach the UK’s net zero targets, its statutory advisers
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The oil companies are saying they’ll quit UK oil exploration, which is great news
I was pleased to read this in the FT: UK oil and gas producers on Thursday warned Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, that his new windfall
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