Ed Miliband

“Reasons to be cheerful” on Copenhagen

Ed Miliband revealed last night that the changing position of Japan, India, and China meant “there are reasons to be cheerful” over the Copenhagen climate change talks in December. The remarks are more positive than previous assessments by the Climate Secretary.

Activists upbeat despite 10:10 defeat

The Guardian today reports the defeat of a Liberal Democrat motion calling for the Government to sign up to the 10:10 campaign. But activists were today in buoyant mood praising quickly coordinated online action that provoked impressive levels of public engagement and new money from the Government for energy efficiency measures in local authorities.

E.ON chief: No new nuclear before 2020

The chief executive of E.ON UK, Paul Golby, has told Reuters news agency that he does not believe any new nuclear station will come online before 2020 saying, “It’s clearly not possible to accelerate the build time.”

Get Gordon to Go

Ed Miliband has launched a campaign to get his boss, Gordon Brown, to join him at the Copenhagen talks. Meanwhile, the international online civic organisation, Avaaz, have sent an email to their 300,000 British members urging them to, “flood a UK online poll [and] … send Gordon to Copenhagen.”

Blackout panic misses the facts (pt. 2)

Professor David MacKay – soon to take up post as a key adviser to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband – has poured fuel onto the media fire telling the Today programme that blackouts could be caused from a shortage in power stations around 2016. Looking at the numbers, it is difficult to see how he has come to that conclusion.