News and Updates

In a recent Times article, Juliet Samuel argues that a "new modelling army is leading us astray", and that, "be it policy for lockdown, net zero or immigration, it must be ministers and not scientists or analysts who lead the...

Unabated – as in: "The UK position is clear – there must be a phase out of unabated fossil fuel [extraction and use] to meet our climate goal." This is clear if a bit arcane as unabated fossil fuel use...

This is part of what the PM said in his speech at COP28. "First, the world needs to do more to tackle climate change.  We’ve made real progress – including at the Glasgow summit but the climate science and mounting...

That is the question, if anyone actually cares. There must be a scratching of collective heads across Whitehall as to why an ignorant UK public still refuses to buy EVs.  Most current sales are for company car fleets rather than...

I’ve not mentioned the two giant pandas in Edinburgh zoo lately, and it’s almost too late as they are off home next week.  When they first arrived, the ticket sales must have exceeded the rent the zoo was paying (around...

I see that the Ministry of Eco Education is hosting an online panel discussion exploring Activism in Schools on Monday December 4th.  The event is "to enable young people, academics and educators to discuss the role of activism in education"...

At the NAEE AGM last Saturday morning I ceased after 7 years to be a trustee and, hence, chair of the trustee board.  Truly, it has been a privilege to be part of its 52 year old heritage, dating as...

I read that young people in Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, Luton and London have been leaving school to march calling for a ceasefire in the Hamas – Israel conflict that was caused by the terrorist group's genocidal attack on Israeli civilians...

In today's government reshuffle, which sees Lord David "hug a husky" Cameron back in the cabinet, spare a thought for the once great survivor, Nick Gibb who has surely been sacked for the last time.  Gibb, a voice for high...

Thanks to NAEE's weekly news round-up for an alert to a new policy brief from the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath on the climate crisis in UK national curricula.  The author, Katharine Lee, says that the...