Whatever has happened to the HEFCE Sustainable Development Plan? Do you know? If there has been an update recently, I've missed it. There was a clear commitment to producing updates in the Sustainable Development policy framework document [2014/30] – see page 21. That was 3 years ago.
Perhaps there's no development to report – unsustainable or otherwise. I hear a new broom is in the HEFCE offing so maybe priorities will change and they will take sustainable development seriously again.
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...