I did a Youtube meeting with the Scotonomics team of Kairin van Sweeden and William Thomson last night, roaming over a whole range of green
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Why carbon offset should almost never be a part of audited financial statements
Over the last day there appears to have been a pile-on of commentators on this blog all saying that my arguments on carbon offsetting implicit
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What we need is the faith to realise that we humans can innovate our way out of the climate crisis. Not by working to keep things as they are. But to make them as they should be.
David Willets is a commentator on this blog. He posted this in response to my post on advertising: I am not asking facetiously, as I’d
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Can the world’s leaders compromise to save those already alive?
If this is David Attenborough’s swan song (and I hope it isn’t) the challenge he lays down and the response he demands would have made
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The Budget and COP 26 – a double bill on the Common Weal podcast this evening
I recorded the Common Weal podcast with Craig Dalzell this evening. You can find it here if you want 45 minutes of lively discussion on
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The problem with water companies – and how to solve it
I was asked yesterday by a friend who is an accountant what I thought about the problems in water companies. This was my reply: What
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If we discount the future we won’t tackle climate change, which seems to be what some economists want
I am unashamedly quoting from the comments made by Nicholas (Lord) Stern noted in the Guardian this morning. As they record: Many economic assessments of
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Retail sales are falling. Covid is returning. Recession is coming. What we do not need are austerity and interest rate rises. What we do need is a Green New Deal.
As the ONS has reported this morning UK retail sales have fallen for the fifth month in a row this morning: I have five thoughts.
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The new NS&I green bond is priced to fail by a government that really does not want to tackle climate change
As many readers here will know, I have been arguing that savings should be redirected to fund the costs of climate transition for some time.
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