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.
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.
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.
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.
Quietly, almost imperceptibly, the ‘greenest Government ever’ is salami-slicing its green spending, reports Guy Shrubsole.
James Delingpole, the champion of online climate conspiracy theorists, claims he was ‘intellectually raped’ on television on Monday night, reports Joss Garman.
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.
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’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.
Fox News has been caught again distorting the facts through media manipulation, this time on climate change, reports exec director of Climatico Niel Bowerman.
