Obama steps up, will the other world leaders?
Last week, Barack Obama sent out a clear message to the US and the world when he nixed the Keystone XL pipeline which would have...
Reasons to be cheerful (about green issues)
Oct 12, 2015
I had an old college chum over for dinner last week and we did a lot of reminiscing about our student days and the years...
Why don’t people ‘get’ climate change? Because we’re only human…
Sep 30, 2015
I like George Monbiot – he's decent, principled and thorough – but I often disagree with the tenor of his arguments. Today he complained that...
A surfeit of -isms? Eco-modernism, new environmentalism, pragmatic environmentalism
Sep 25, 2015
This week saw the launch of 'Eco-modernism' the brainchild of Mark Lynas and a host of other green thinkers. It pretty much fills the same space...
Al Gore, the CBI & Greenpeace: which big gun will make a difference?
Sep 23, 2015
The heavy artillery of the climate movement parked its tanks on the (metaphorical) lawn of the UK Chancellor this week. Al Gore, John Cridland of...
Who is going to champion the UK’s green industry now?
Sep 16, 2015
As the details of new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet trickled out this week, I became increasingly depressed. Carolyn Flint, the existing Energy & Climate...
Being right isn’t enough
Sep 14, 2015
You'd have to have the heart of Katie Hopkins not to be moved by the refugee crisis – a humanitarian disaster unfolding in front of...
When we need constancy on Climate Change, we get inconsistency
Aug 25, 2015
A slew of dissonant news items have hit our eyeballs in recent weeks: President Obama launching tough carbon reduction regulations for power stations, then approving oil drilling in the...
A week’s a long time in (climate) politics pt2
Jul 10, 2015
Last week, watching him deputise for the PM at Prime Minister's Questions, I was pleasantly surprised by Chancellor George Osborne making some quite strong pledges...
A week’s a long time in (climate) politics
Jun 19, 2015
It's been quite a week in terms of political positioning on climate change. One of the most interesting statements came from UK Chancellor George Osborne...