Helping navigate our changing climate
Closing coal
Closing coal - from a Friends of the Earth campaign 20 years ago to work today on the repowering of coal with alternative, clean heat sources.
If Science Can Save Us…
A recent BlueYard Capital event in London provided a chance to explore how politics shapes our ability to respond effectively to the growing climate risk.
Energy Intelligence Forum
The relationship between oil and money is always in flux - cash rich today will the big beasts of energy find demand destruction for oil deflates their future profits?
How to fund solutions to the Energy Crisis
Unfunded energy support measures helped undermine investor confidence in the UK - here’s how they should have done it.
Bloomberg Green Podcast
In September Bloomberg Green launched a new podcast: Zero; I was delighted to be Akshat Rathi’s first guest.
We’re having a heatwave…in June
Friday 19th June, 2022 interview for BBC’s World at One. Thank goodness this was a serious piece about the higher temperatures, their causes and solutions.
Russian invasion and climate chaos - solutions are the same.
Russia’s invasion needn’t derail climate efforts - it should turbo charge them.
Earthshot: book review
We are undoubtedly living at a crossroads in humanity’s history on this planet. Having become so dominant a species we are now drastically altering the finely tuned conditions that enabled us to flourish. To take a sharp about turn, toward a less risky, more harmonious way of existing, we need to apply the handbrake.
Why shipping can lead on decarbonisation
Panel discussion on shipping and climate. GMF 2019, Singapore
Trump may be bad but all is not lost
Nasa recently announced the discovery of a solar system with seven earth-sized rocky planets, three of which could potentially sustain life. Interesting news, but at 235 trillion miles away, no one is going there soon. In the meantime, we need to look after our only home. We must protect ourselves from climate change. Our fate turns on a race between physics and politics.
Trumps pantomime presidency galvanised us
This article appeared in Prospect Magazine, July 2017 edition
“Summertime and the living is easy, fish are jumping and the cotton is high.” This was playing in the White House Rose Garden as President Donald Trump announced his withdrawal from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement.
Debating with Bjorn Lomberg
Bjorn Lomberg and I discuss climate, geoengineering and the Paris Agreement. Aired 2013.
Public Information
Many moons ago I helped run a Government public information campaign about climate change. Nobody thought it would be the first and last one!
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