The Notebook: Nuclear power continues to divide, but we need to think about the future July 22, 2024 Kokou Agbo Bloua, Societe Generale’s global head of economics, takes the pen to talk nuclear, climate volatility and the economic outlook.
King’s Speech: All eyes on the green-fingered monarch as government backs oil and gas November 6, 2023 King Charles will have to announce oil and gas pledges in the King's Speech tomorrow — all eyes will be on his delivery.
KPMG UK: Sustainable Growth December 6, 2023 KPMG UK believes sustainable growth is the only way to build a successful business and to have a lasting impact on the world. We started publishing Our Impact in September 2021, bringing together our firm’s commitments in one place, measuring our progress and holding ourselves accountable to drive change. This reports on our impact on the environment, [...]
The government needs a flight plan September 3, 2024 Airport capacity is a vital national infrastructure issue critical to growth, but we have no idea where the government stands, says Eliot Wilson Michael O’Leary, the veteran CEO of Ryanair, is a reliable source of copy. Last week this paper reported his view that the next runway to be built to serve London would not [...]
As long as we talk in emotive terms like reparations, we make the climate political November 10, 2022 No matter if a delegate was wearing an Arabian thawb, an African dhuku or a Western business suit; all attendees I encountered at Cop27 in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt were unanimous in recognising that action must be taken to stem the impact of climate change – and fast. It was clear from the very beginning of [...]
We need to get to net zero, but we will fail if we lose public support September 27, 2023 The hysteria over Sunak’s relatively mild changes ignores a much more existential threat to our climate goal: alienating everyday Brits.
Braverman: ‘We are not going to save the planet by bankrupting the country’ September 20, 2023 Home Secretary Suella Braverman has backed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's reported decision to row back on pledged green commitments.
Sunak is laying out a climate trap for Labour to fall into at an election September 28, 2023 As the world looks on at Rishi Sunak’s climate decisions with bemusement, his target is an electoral victory banking on the “ULEZ effect”, writes Barry Johnston Last week in New York, on the margins of a major UN summit to accelerate action on climate change, all talk was, incredibly, of the Uxbridge by-election. Such was [...]
How to blow up a Pipeline review: Vital but underdeveloped climate drama April 27, 2023 Headlines about how doomed we all are due to climate change have sadly started to have less of an impact, as we all get more fatigued by the endless bad news. Thankfully, creatives have been trying to make the same points in different ways. Netflix satire Don’t Look Up imagined the life of a beleaguered [...]
Financed Emissions – Explained November 8, 2023 Financed emissions refer to greenhouse gas emissions associated with the funding of projects, companies, or initiatives. For example, a bank lending money to a company that wants to expand its operations. The company then emits greenhouse gases during this expansion, and whilst the bank isn’t directly producing the emissions, it is indirectly supporting and enabling [...]