In Rishi Sunak’s speech to the Tory party conference last week the word ‘climate’ did not appear at all. Instead, the case that he made
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Is there a need for a new, more moderate, campaign for climate reform?
Rupert Read is assistant-professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia. In the context of this blog he’s better known as a leading green
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Giving tax relief for green savings makes complete sense – especially if the tax relief on other forms of saving is withdrawn
Amongst the papers put out by the IMF in advance of this autumn’s general meeting was this one: It said: The world’s $50 trillion investment
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The government still has to decide who to prioritise: is it people, wages and jobs or landlords and an over-inflated financial system?
I wrote what follows below in May 2020. The coronavirus was then developing – but the reality of lockdown, social distancing and much else was
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If we made gas companies financially responsible for the emissions that burning gas creates we’d change the planet very quickly
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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Green bonds are in fashion – to the tune of £100bn
I missed this headline a couple of days ago in the FT: They added: All those who now suggest that people would not want to
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Keir Starmer really should keep his word
A year ago Keir Starmer was saying this: Now, as I mentioned yesterday there is no mention at all of the Green New Deal in
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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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