When Vince Cable, the widely-acknowledged Sage of Twickenham, was asked a question in parliament the other week about the circular economy, he showed absolutely no understanding of what the term means.
Dear me! What do they get up to all day in BIS? Does no one keep an eye on the economy and what companies are up to? This suggests that the new CEO of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has some serious lunching to do.
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...