Climate Change
Robin Hood Tax campaign goes live
A campaign for a Financial Transactions Tax (a "Robin Hood tax") of 0.05% is launched today. No other measure would raise so much money or do so little harm.
“Climategate”: a manufactured controversy
Recent headlines about "climategate" were predictable enough - but the "revelations" do not undermine the overwhelming evidence that climate change is manmade.
Osborne’s climate gaffe
George Osborne this morning claimed that Lord Stern would "advise" the Conservative party. But Lord Stern was quick to deny any advisory role for a political party.
World on course for 3.5-degree rise
A majority of the world’s nations yesterday signed up to the Copenhagen Accord and filed plans for emissions reductions, scraping over the Jan 31st UN deadline.
Don’t let Bin Laden discredit climate change
Osama Bin Laden has called for the world to boycott US goods & the US dollar, blaming them for climate change, according to a new audiotape released last week.
Better transport, more jobs, healthier lives… oh, and a safe climate
Tackling climate change by championing the additional benefits that flow from decarbonisation is a sound messaging strategy, winning support from progressives.