Joss Garman
Joss Garman writes on the environment. He is a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace and a co-founder of Plane Stupid. Joss is blogging in a personal capacity.
Abbott: green tech key to deficit reduction
Dianne Abbott has called for the next Labour leader to make the party greener. In an interview with Resonance FM she said green tech was the key to deficit reduction.
The loophole in the coalition’s 10:10 carbon pledge
The Coalition are using a loophole to help achieve their 10:10 carbon pledge. The Sustainable Development Commission warned about the ruse before being scrapped.
Lawson to councils: Do “absolutely nothing” to cut your carbon
Tory peer Lord Lawson says local authorities should do “absolutely nothing” to reduce their carbon emissions and that people are “ignoring the benefits of global warming”, something he describes as the “new religion”.
Tax breaks for Big Oil as coalition breaks with US & EU to back deep sea drilling
Despite the emerging global trend to ban deep sea drilling, as The Independent reports today, the UK has rejected calls for a moratorium in our waters.
New research: ‘Glaring obvious explanation’ is warming from greenhouse gases
New research has shown that on up to 11 different indicators of climate, each one pointed to a world that was warming owing to the influence of greenhouse gases.
New clean energy cuts threaten low-carbon economic progress and new jobs
The Financial Times reported this week that serious and established plans by Siemens to build a wind turbine industry in the UK, with the creation of hundreds of new jobs, are now being threatened by possible new coalition cuts to clean energy budgets.