There are hints today that the government is planning to make climate change disclosure by large companies mandatory. Rishi Sunak has given this the nod,
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Why we need Green Bonds
The Chancellor, in another closely co-ordinated policy announcement with the Bank of England, announced yesterday that the government does now plan to issue green bonds.
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Only the mad and economists
I have heard it said that only the mad and economists think that perpetual growth is possible in a finite world. This graph comes from
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Do cars need to come with a health warning?
Some may find this off the wall, but my Green New Deal colleague Andrew Simms is saying something here that seems to me to make
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Now we need an END
I was asked to speak to the Cross Party Group on Sustainable Energy in the Welsh Senedd (parliament) yesterday. I had already done so in
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The pretence that we’re going to have a V shaped recovery should be consigned to the bin: now is the time for radical economic action to save jobs
Even the government is admitting that we are now facing a very difficult winter. It is very obvious that coronavirus has not been beaten. The
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Almost irrelevant of age, sex, class or ethnicity – people want a fairer, greener, more community-oriented future
As Matthew Taylor has noted in the Guardian: The British public backs an ambitious transformation of the UK into a greener, fairer more equal society
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The Tax Research videos
I began making videos with Mark Cooney of Spotted in Ely about three months ago, and this list of those we’ve made has grown pretty
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Government is very different when it’s not run for the benefit of landlords
It’s interesting to see how different government is if it is not run to serve the interests of landlords. I suspect that very few people
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