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“Can we afford net zero?” is the last stand of the climate deniers

26th July 2022

It has been really interesting, if somewhat depressing, watching the so-called debate over climate change evolve over the last 15-20 years. Given the basics of...

Week Two of ‘Who wants to be Prime Minister?’ – the net zero angle

18th July 2022

So, we're now down to five candidates to be the UK's next Prime Minister and they've had two TV debates to show the wider population...

Whither the UK’s Net Zero Commitment?

11th July 2022

As I've said before, one of outgoing UK PM Boris Johnson's few redeeming characteristics (in my opinion!) was his conversion away from 'lukewarmism' and commitment...

One person’s greenwashing is another’s jolly good thing (and vice versa)

4th July 2022

I'm an early waker, but not so much of an early riser these days, so when I do wake, I tend put on the BBC...

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes…

27th June 2022

At the weekend, I met up with a group of school friends to go and watch the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park (they were brilliant)....

Book Review: Net Zero: How we stop causing climate change by Dieter Helm

20th June 2022

I haven't read a Sustainability book for some time, so when my partner handed me a copy of Dieter Helm's Net Zero at an Alpkit...

Why Stretch Targets Work – in Life or Sustainability

13th June 2022

This morning, I am extremely tired. At 4:15am on Saturday, I was lined up in Rockliffe, Scotland with 299 others to take part in the...

Sustainability musings from the West Coast of Scotland

6th June 2022

I'm busy wading through a wall of e-mails following a wonderfully relaxing half-term holiday on the Craignish peninsula. Our rented old farmhouse overlooked an overlapping...

The Australian Election: A New (Climate) Hope?

23rd May 2022

I first became aware of the change in political leadership in Australia when the BBC played a clip of incoming PM Anthony Albanese (right) pledging...

Sustainability Engagement: Bottom up or top down?

16th May 2022

In almost every sustainability strategy project I do, I find that the default client assumption is engagement is something that is done with front line...

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