News and Updates

Recently, the late night news programmes on both main TV channels had features about COP21.  These both drew heavily on what Christiana Figueres, the UN climate chief, has been saying. Noting that 155 countries have already put forward detailed plans covering 88% of global CO2...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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....

I was being gloomy in a meeting the other day about the dismal prospects for COP21 when someone said the outcome will depend on what David Cameron does. That cannot be right in any tangible sense as our carbon emissions...