July 2022

Is any school focused and committed enough to talk about ESG – environmental, social, and governance issues – with its students?   Probably not.  Many universities will, of course, especially business / management departments.  I wondered about this as I...

I noticed in this week's NAEE weekly update that Manchester University’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures had organised a competition for UK school students to write a speech or letter, addressed to the UN, on the climate emergency. It...

If you click here you can watch a 16 minute talk by Stuart Kirk (HSBC's Head of Responsible Investment / Head of Research & Insights) at an FT Moral Money symposium in May.  He was suspended by HSBC for his...

Unless you've been hibernating you're probably aware that there is a competition for a replacement prime minister.  I've been trying to hear what the contenders have to say about their policies towards energy, climate and biodiversity issues (etc).  Not much...

Tendering for the DfE's über high profile climate leaders award and its nature park scheme would not seem to have been the roaring success that the department hoped.  At the deadline, there was only one bid.  There were nearly two...

There's a new team at the DfE.  After all the recent resignations new ministers are in place, although one who resigned seems to be back, and the one who never resigned is still there.  Three are new, including the Secretary...

WWF International is looking for both a new Director General and a new Chair for its Board of Directors.  Both posts are demanding.  The latter, though expecting a 30% commitment of time, is unremunerated.  Sound a bit like being Chair...

Five ministers have left their posts in the DfE in the last 24 hours. One (Zahawi) was promoted sideways and upwards to the Treasury where one of his first jobs will likely be to enforce spending restrictions on the DfE...

I could go on and on about the poems that OCR might choose to illustrate and explore the human (rest of) nature relationship, but I'm just adding one before I stop. What to choose?  Something by a dead white bloke...