Tom Herbert, baker and entrepreneur, is right: environmentalists seem to be a lot more focussed on ways of growing food locally and sustainably, to contribute to the balanced diets that we need, than they are on how best to make this food available...
I sometimes fantasise about MRCs – Mandatory Reading Commitments– for a pre-designated category of “people of influence” here in the UK: politicians (including all would-be politicians), business leaders, the commentariat (in all shapes and sizes)...
Last week there were two powerful reminders of the frontline role of conservationists in today's troubled world.First, the ever-more remarkable Whitley Awards, which I was lucky enough to attend on May 1st. 6 winners (from Guyana, Papua New Guinea...
In a nutshell, this is the dilemma that energy giant Drax now faces: The case against burning wood pellets to generate electricity appears, on the surface, to be getting stronger and stronger all the time.The case in favour of capturing emissions of...
At some point over the next couple of months, Chief Sustainability Officers will be making decisions and recommendations about this year's CoP in Azerbaijan at the end of the year. My advice to them: spare yourselves the hassle. Just don't send...
This is a bit of a long one! So here’s my “Executive Summary” so you can decide whether to commit the time to the rest of it: mainstream climate scientists run the risk of becoming the new climate deniers.
Now that the dust has settled after the Labour Party junked its commitment (on 8th February) to £28bn a year of new investment in the UK’s green economy, it’s worth reflecting on what this tells us about climate politics in the UK over the next...
First they came for Just Stop Oil; then they came for radical environmentalists; then they came for members of the National Trust, the RSPB, and WWF. But there was no one left to speak for them. I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m astonished at the lack...
EdF’s bosses must be thanking their lucky stars that President Macron decided to take complete control of EdF back in 2022. Otherwise, its latest announcements about further delays and cost increases for its new reactors at Hinkley Point would have...
After 14 years of Tory mismanagement, the UK finds itself bereft of an energy strategy. This was finally confirmed in the release last week of the Government’s new Nuclear Roadmap. At one level, it’s just the same old, same old, the latest in a very...
