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Turning off Britain's Lights Could Save £1.192 Billion a Year
The cliché most commonly used to describe a guiding principle behind UK energy policy is "keeping the lights on". I say: let's turn them off instead. Based on what other countries have done, we could save £1.192 billion every year. And that's just...
Doha Wins "Damage Aid" for Poor Countries
For the first time, developing countries have won recognition of the danger they face from climate change, securing a promise from developing countries that they will receive funding to repair the "loss and damage" incurred. US negotiators fought...
Doha: Climate Negotiators Fail to Meet the Scientific Challenge
Young UNICEF UK campaigners asking Ed Davey to speak up for children before he left for the UN climate change talks in Doha. Photo: Rosie Reed Gold/UNICEF. On the last day, talks at Doha aimed at securing a global agreement to tackle climate change...
Europe must adopt a 30% Emissions Reduction Target
With any luck we are about to see a shift in action on curbing carbon emissions. It's not just that the annual United Nations climate change talks, COP-18, begin at the end of this month at Doha in Qatar. Nor is it that with the re-election of...
To Beat Climate Change, Must Obama Win?
Here's the logic of this post:The latest science says we're heading for over 6 degrees C warming. Romney will do nothing but make this worse Obama must winThen go to Doha and help broker a global pact on limiting emissions. Following...
Energy Storage must be supported in the Energy Bill
There have been many calls for energy efficiency to be supported in the Energy Bill as it is being reformulated, before it is presented again to Parliament next month. I totally support these, but I would like to add that there must also be support...
European Commission Shies Back from Curbing Shipping Emissions
The European Commission will launch a shipping emissions monitoring system early next year, in a move widely seen as postponement of action to reduce emissions. In a disgraceful abdication of its responsibilities, its solution will only cover “a...
Is David Cameron appointing climate sceptics?
David Cameron appointed several new ministers last week who are suspected of being weak on climate change and green issues. These appointments demonstrate that anxieties from those on the right of the Tory party about losing seats at the next...
Cleantech sector expects greater profits in next 12 months
Leaders of cleantech firms around the world are more optimistic than their counterparts in other sectors, a new survey has found. A survey by Grant Thornton, published on Monday, of business leaders' attitude in the sector, finds the sector...
As the U.N. climate talks make little progress, are we headed for 3°C rise?
Protesters in Bangkok outside the UN climate talks. The U.N. climate talks featuring delegates from 190 nations, that have been ongoing for the last week in Bangkok, Thailand, and which conclude today, have produced few concrete results...
Do electric cars really save carbon emissions?
Smart grids, together with electric vehicles, will enable their owners to sell power back to the grid, make money for themselves, and help keep the network from overloading. But research shows that the cost of reducing carbon emissions this way is...
Carbon capture: Why the EU approach just isn't working
Carbon capture and storage is not going to save us. We must wean ourselves off fossil fuels as quickly as possible. It has emerged that it is now likely that just one carbon capture and storage project in the UK will receive funding from the...
