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Drill Or Drop
Drill or Drop is a website publishing "independent, evidence-based" journalism about the onshore oil and gas business in the UK and the campaign against it. It is named after the “drill or drop” clause in a petroleum exploration and development licence that requires...
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The Swedes add an 18th SDG
As if 17 global goals were not enough, along comes an 18th, although it is not from the UN. Rather, it's from a Swedish band, The Knife, which, unsurprisingly, I had not heard of. You can listen to them here; ABBA they...
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My heroes of the week
Time for some relief from all the angst that usually fills these columns. Here are the heroes I've come across this week (some rather belatedly): beacons of sense and sanity to us all ... Bertie Pollock, who set fire to his father's...
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Does Australia really want COP21 to fail?
Why Australia wants Paris to fail - a coal exporting country's perspective on plans to cut global emissions, is the title of next week's I-SEE seminar in Bath by Dr Richard Denniss, the chief economist of the Australia Institute. This is...
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Questions for FEE
FEE – the Foundation for Environmental Education – is the international group that manages (amongst other things) the Eco-schools franchise, and which therefore, one way or another, determines and/or limits what national Eco-schools teams can do and achieve. This is what FEE says:...
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Another challenging Mark Lynas blog
The blog, Peak Environmental Impact, begins, ... "You won’t hear about it from green campaigners, but many of the key drivers of environmental destruction are slowing down. The rate of population growth is nearly half today what it was in 1970....
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State of the sector report
As catchy titles go, you have to say that this is down there with "M4 closed by accident" which my local newspapers seem to feature every week. The report in question, is on sustainability in UK tertiary education, and it...
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COP Alert – only a month to go now
Watch out. COP21 is coming. Reuters has reported comments by Laurence Tubiana, the French envoy to COP21, quoting her as saying that delegates remain divided over fundamental issues, one of which is the framework for measuring carbon emissions – with oil-producing nations...
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Giving the UN a helping hand
You may think you have already come across the Global Goals for SD, but are you confusing this with the UN's SD Goals? Of course, they are the same goals, but when you compare the websites, you'll see the difference. Global Goals...
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Aid and the Sustainable Development Goals
The 17 SDGs were launched by the UN on September 25th, to the usual fanfare. They are wordy, as I've noted before, and as the Economist has argued, some are so convoluted as to defy evaluation – which, perhaps, was the point....
