Unesco has appointed a new director of ESD. A Unesco insider announced this yesterday at a meeting I attended, but knowledge being power, they declined to share the details. What a tease!
They did say, however, that the post would herald a change of direction for Unesco; one that embraces – if I got this right: I confess that I was so overcome that my notes are a bit of a blur – culture, climate change and ESD. Who can that be!
It's a commonplace claim that the realisation of commercial nuclear fusion reactors is always around 20 years away. It seems to be no different today despite the huge increase in private sector cash flowing into development. What I didn't realise...
Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.” I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in The Times...
Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions. It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...
Do we know yet? I am very curious!
My money is on Ann Widdecombe...