Main navigation
The Bloggers
Lawrence Avery
Gregory Barker
Ewan Bennie
Megan Cooper
Edward Davey
Claire Denniss
Green Deal Team
Jamie Green
James Godber
Ravi Gurumurthy
Hergen Haye
Jonathan Hood
Christalla Kyriacou
James Lee
Sally Mills
Summer Nisar
Kirsty Schneeberger
Rick Storey
Tracy Vegro
Professor Paul YoungerArchive for: Climate Change RSS
-
-
Finding common cause before COP17
In the spirit of there being an appropriate Keynes’ quote for all contemporary political problems, here’s one for COP17: “Its better to be broadly right than precisely wrong.” Put differently, critical analysis does not start from a clear-sighted definition of justice but from widely shared intuitions of injustice. This is the simple logic that runs [...]
-
-
Water and climate coalition
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thus croaked the ancient mariner as he stumbled around his ghost ship surrounded by the expansive ocean that could not quench his thirst. Such a powerful phrase encapsulates the desperation of a person seeking [...]
-
-
The True Cost Of Energy and Climate Change Policies On Bills
Recent reports in the media have claimed that DECC’s policies to promote energy efficiency and low carbon energy are currently adding £200 to the average household energy bill. Based on a typical annual household gas bill of £608 and electricity bill of £424, it is claimed that these policies make up between £154 and £206 [...]
-
-
The new radicals
Whilst good progress was made in Bonn, the important question is was it good enough? There is only one answer to this question: no. The pace of progress is disappointing and in fact quite frightening. But this pace is not the result of complex technical barriers that we must wait to overcome. The current pace [...]
-
-
The revolution will not be right back after a message
Justice doesn’t make for good news. Watch the UNFCCC from a distance and you’d be forgiven for thinking that there must be a better way of doing this. With the first week of Bonn dominated by discussions of the negotiating agenda can we really expect this process to keep the world bellow 1.5 or even [...]
DECC @YouTube
DECC's YouTube feedDECC @Twitter
