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Behaviour Change and Net Zero
I attended the I-SEE Sustainable Energy & the Environment Webinar: Behaviour change for net zero, last Tuesday. It was given by Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh of the University of Bath. Here's Lorraine's introduction: In this talk, I will argue that most...
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The £28bn Question
Whilst I’ve not been obsessing about the £28bn that the Labour Party promised to borrow to invest in green matters every year in the next parliament, I’ve been trying to keep track of it; just as I’ve been wondering what...
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Social Consent and Cognitive Dissonance
I hope that whoever is in charge of ensuring that the UK's climate change policy is both technologically sound and socially feasible is paying attention to what’s going on in Germany, France, Poland, Romania, The Netherlands and elsewhere where social...
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A Poverty Premium on the Journey to Net Zero
I've been reading a new report [ Our Journey to Net Zero: understanding household and community participation in the UK’s transition to a greener future ] from the Institute for Community Studies and others, on the preparedness of UK households...
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Catching the Eye
Here are a few of the stories that came across my desk(top) this week: Yanis Varoufakis explains in UnHerd why poor farmers across the EU are revolting, and what cannot be done about it. It begins: Manos, a sixth-generation farmer...
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All models are wrong, but some are useful
I attended the I-SEE Sustainable Energy & the Environment Webinar, ‘The Science Behind Climate Models’, yesterday. It was given by Bill Collins, Professor of Climate Processes, Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth System Modelling at the University of Reading. Here's his blurb: We...
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Common Sense breaks out in Wiltshire
I'm fortunate enough to live in Wiltshire and so was pleased to see that James Dyson won an 18 month-long battle with Wiltshire Council [WC] and the DfE and now can make a £6m school donation to the primary school...
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Race and the Environmental Emergency
Wildlife and Countryside Link is a coalition of environmental organisations in England committed to protecting the natural environment. Late last year, it made a submission to a parliamentary enquiry into Race and the Environmental Emergency on behalf of 11 of...
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Encouraging Disability in the Foodchain
The Guardian reports that the European Commission has announced ambitious intentions to become world’s first climate-neutral continent with plans to cut emissions by 90% by 2040. It’s a fair bet that few of the EU's population will have had any...
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CHMM Backtrack
I wrote back in December about how the price of new gas boilers was rising because manufacturers were passing on the fines imposed on them by government. From HMG's perspective, of course, these are not fines, but are branded as...
