Coalition aviation policy is still green… for now
In advance of the government launching its sustainable aviation framework consultation on Thursday, Natan Doron takes a closer look at the coalition’s aviation policy.
Climate Change
Budget 2011: Osborne the Clarksonesque showman
Mr Osborne has missed a golden opportunity to invest the £2 billion from the oil companies in providing alternatives to car travel; people are now being encouraged to drive in a 1970s dream that could soon evaporate with a change in the price of oil, writes Eleanor Besley.
Budget 2011: Three key climate change tests
Shadow Minister for Climate Change Luciana Berger outlines three key climate change tests for the government to prove its green credentials in the Budget tomorrow.
Coalition in danger of being ‘oiliest government ever’
The Cameron administration has had firm aspirations to be the ‘greenest government ever’, but the reality is turning out to be quite different. Alongside having a transport secretary who advocates gas-guzzling changes to public policy and continuing to encourage road-building in a time of austerity, they have announced that the person almost certain to head up the coalition’s environemt and energy policy is a former BP policy advisor.
Why won’t the government investigate its carbon emissions?
It is the received wisdom that the UK’s emissions are falling. But this is not the case; as academic studies and government briefings show, the UK’s emissions continue to rise, reports Guy Shrubsole.
Stealth cuts could threaten the green economy
Quietly, almost imperceptibly, the ‘greenest Government ever’ is salami-slicing its green spending, reports Guy Shrubsole.
Telegraph columnist ‘intellectually raped’ by Royal Society scientist
James Delingpole, the champion of online climate conspiracy theorists, claims he was ‘intellectually raped’ on television on Monday night, reports Joss Garman.
Britain is the world leader in wind power
New statistics this week confirm the United Kingdom is the world leader in the wind power sector with 1,342 megawatts (MW) installed, reports Chris Tarquini.
How can we take the green message into the mainstream?
Seph Brown discusses the Fabian Society Nexy Left conference debate on the environment, titled: “Green Gloom: How do we win the argument for the planet?”
Christian Aid calls for World Bank action on climate change
Christian Aid’s Paul Brannen discusses how the World Bank must take more actions on climate change and how Britain is in a position to influence it.