Sustainability is mentioned seven times in the 2016 grant letter from BIS to Hefce. But all in the 'endurability' sense, where the focus is financial and/or economic.
Quite a change from previous years when everyone at least pretended to take the other sort of sustainability seriously. The end of hypocrisy, perhaps. At least the Hefce CEO will be pleased.
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...