Green Politics
The Milibrothers take the green test
Here at Left Foot Forward, we have taken David Miliband’s green proposals and compared them to statements from the Coalition and also from the other Labour front runner, his brother Ed.
The source of the deficit
There are innumerable claims from the Coalition government and its supporters that the source of the public sector deficit is Labour’s over-spending. But one graph, on the Treasury’s own website, demonstrates that assertion is untrue.
UK carbon emissions rising says chief government scientist
Carbon emissions in the United Kingdom have increased since 1980, if "embedded" emissions are taken into account. Professor Robert Watson, the Government's chief environmental scientist has called for more openness in the publishing of statistics, which can be misleading.
Economic update – September 2010
The main economic debate in the UK still centres on whether the economy is strong enough to stand the strain that will be placed on it by George Osborne’s fiscal consolidation plans.
Damp spirits ahead of Geneva Climate Finance Conference
Representatives from around 40 governments meet today in Geneva to consolidate on the discussions held at Copenhagen last year, ahead of November’s Cancun UN Climate Change Conference.
World’s most famous climate sceptic: Global warming a ‘chief concern’
The Guardian today splashed with the news that the man the paper describes as “the world’s most high profile climate change sceptic,” Bjørn Lomborg, has u-turned and described global warming as “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and called for tens of billions to be spent tackling the problem.