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The World COP
The COP closing plenary was 5 hours 10 minutes long on YouTube. It must have seemed much longer in real time. It was sponsored by Coca Cola. Here's what Le Monde had to say about the inappropriateness of this. If...
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1750 and all that
Our World in Data has a section on historic carbon emissions which will be useful to any school wanting to explore the idea that countries might pay penance for having emitted a lot of carbon dioxide over time. The UK's...
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30 – 50
Venture Capitalist, Vinod Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, wrote the following in an Economist feature: "There are 12 major areas to focus on in the coming decades: electricity, EVs, aviation, shipping, cement, steel, animal husbandry in agriculture,...
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What are schools for?
A recent mailing from the FED wondered whether skills are beginning to take centre stage in the DfE's thinking. As evidence of this, the writer cites the fact that a long-time supporter of a long-term plan for education, the Rt Hon Robert...
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Stranded by a FED tide
The Foundation for Education Development – the FED – has expressed its approval of "long-term thinking" being back in government when it comes to education. A recent comment is shown here: The FED has the prime aim of promoting the urgent need for...
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Defunding UK Education
Although no one voted for it, and there have been no street-campaigns demanding it, education in England has been systematically defunded in a comparative sense over the last 20 years under all shades of government. Twenty years ago, Britain devoted...
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The road to Imber is paved with good intentions
Germany, which is desperately short of energy options, has finally decided (after much debate / dithering) that it will shut down its last nuclear power stations by April 2023. This is an act born of green ethical principle it seems. At...
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Bye Bye 1.5
With COP27 starting, it will be instructive to see what official discourse and communiques have to say about the chance of restricting the post-industrial global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Global temperature rise is now in the 1.0 to...
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Whatever became of Greta T?
Well, yes, I know she has not gone away, and was in London last week to promote her new book, and herself, of course – nothing wrong in that. But this wasn't the old Greta; the awkward grump we've come...
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Party at the Palace
I see that there is to be a party at the Palace on Friday when the King hosts a pre-COP27 meeting to … To do what exactly? It can’t be to celebrate his not going to the COP (I note...
