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Germany Watching
It's good to keep an eye on Germany when it comes to climate and (de)industrialisation policy, particularly as the Greens are in power. Well, they seem to be both in power and in opposition these days – see this from...
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Biting the hand that feeds you
I see that the RSPB is in the news again for all the wrong reasons – a twitter comment of course. I understand that it has taken around £78m of funding from the government since 2018, with grants currently running...
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When words don't mean what they say
No one has a good word to say about air pollution as it can cause much misery, illness and even death – or, perhaps. more accurately, to be a significant contributor to all these. The Mayor of London's Office is...
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Best of British Litter
It’s been a record year at the Reading Festival – for litter. If you doubt it click here. The festival made much of its strict policies on cultural appropriation – no ponchos here please – but seemed to play down environmental...
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Conservation and Trophies
The following are the signatories to a letter in the Times today calling for a rethink of the draft Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill which is currently meandering through the House of Lords. Professor Adam Hart, University of Gloucestershire; Professor...
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Reliance on the self-interest of strangers
It came as rather a shock to find out that the UK no longer makes ammonia after CF Fertilisers’ decision last month to permanently close its ammonia production on Teeside. MSM has the details. Sadly, given its economic significance, there...
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Classroom environmental education doesn’t change attitudes ...
A press release from the University of Bath came my way. It concerned some environmental education research by the Milner Centre for Evolution. The headline said: Classroom environmental education doesn’t change attitudes - new research I thought this was a...
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Original Carbon Sins
I see that Tony Blair has said that the public must not be asked to do a “huge amount” to tackle climate change. His point was that Britain’s national efforts cannot contribute much to solving global warming. He pointed out...
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How much will you pay for Net Zero?
I've been reading The Conservation article by Lorraine Whitmarsh University of Bath, Caroline Verfuerth Cardiff University and Steve Westlake Cardiff University: Net zero: direct costs of climate policies aren’t a major barrier to public support, research reveals. It begins in this way:...
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A bit of bad news for the oil dictators
I cheered a little the other week when the Prime Minister said in Aberdeen that he intends to issue hundreds of new oil and gas licences for the North Sea, adding that "Even when we’ve reached net zero in 2050,...
