I was pleased to note this statement issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland this week: The current sustainability reporting system is not
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Why is Johnson begging that the UK become dependent upon Saudi Arabia, with its appalling human rights record? Is it that Johnson just loves a tyrant? Or is he just stupid when all the money that we need for a green transition is readily available in the UK?
As the FT reports this morning: Boris Johnson is hoping to line up major Saudi investment in British renewable energy on a visit to Riyadh
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There are lessons to be learned from businesses pulling out of Russia, most especially when it comes to climate change
The Russian assault on Ukraine continues to shock, offend all sensibilities and create feelings of despair about the human capacity to be inhumane to others
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If we have more than £15 trillion worth of personal wealth in the UK to suggest that we cannot afford to save the planet is quite absurd
I was searching data on UK wealth yesterday, checking whether the office for National statistics had updated the information that it publishes on this issue,
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Johnson is now using the war in Ukraine to put off action on climate change
The Times has reported this morning that: Boris Johnson believes the West should be given a “climate change pass” to help wean the EU off
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If Farage wants to campaign against net-zero he should be saying who is funding him to do so
It was inevitable that there would be a backlash against net zero. It was also inevitable it would come from the far right. Isobel Oakeshott
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Governments should be acting together to stop the wartime profiteering on oil and gas supplies. But will they?
I wrote this yesterday: Some of the messages under the tweet on the cost increases people are facing are shocking. Worse, few see a way
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A political commitment to transparency has to be our reaction to this war. Our contribution to ‘never again’, if you like.
I have just posted this thread on Twitter: To pretend that the world is anything like that we lived in two or so weeks ago.
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The UK government is falling way short in its planning for climate change. War cannot be used as an excuse for not doing better. This too is an existential threat
Two parliamentary reports this week tell the same story about the government’s preparedness for climate change. As the FT notes this morning: The UK will
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