Public money, tied to political decisions won’t save us from the climate challenge July 18, 2022 We are now just over 100 days from Cop27 in Sharm el-Sheikh. It only feels like yesterday that many of us in the Square Mile made the journey to Glasgow for Cop26, working hard to ensure that financial and professional services played its part in helping keep climate change goals within reach. Yet with just [...]
The Electric Vehicle r(EV)olution January 15, 2023 As of 2022, electric vehicles account for more than one in six registrations in the UK. That’s more than the period between 2016 – 2020 combined. And EV’s are here to stay; by 2030, all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans are set to be banned from sale. What’s driving this change? In [...]
Why there’s more to green energy than heat pumps, radiator boss urges for scheme to be widened March 13, 2023 The government needs to expand the scope of its heating plans to improve energy efficiency across the home, argued a leading radiator boss.
Britain’s farms must clean up their act, but they need more help December 19, 2023 It may not be glamorous, but cleaning up our farms - while supporting our farmers - is imperative for our climate goals, writes Adam Hawksbee
Warmer homes and lower emissions? We should all jump on the heat pump bandwagon December 11, 2023 Britain's housing stock is falling behind in terms of quality and energy efficiency, all of us will pay the price, writes George Clarke
Letters: Climate should be a priority November 2, 2022 [Re: Why does Cop27 seem to be the party no one wants to go to?, Oct 31] It’s disappointing that our new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, doesn’t consider attending COP27 a priority. I appreciate his government has to deal with the UK’s cost of living crisis, but now is not the time to retreat from [...]
27 Insulate Britain protestors arrested during attempt to block Parliament Square October 12, 2022 Protestors are blocking the roads to Parliament Square, holding aloft banners and glueing themselves to the tarmac to prevent the police from removing them.
The Notebook: No crystal ball? How insurers are predicting risk in an increasingly unpredictable world March 13, 2024 Mike Steel, general manager at Moody’s RMS, takes the Notebook pen to talk insurance, catastrophe bonds and predicting the future.
A new coal mine in Cumbria won’t save the burning problems for the UK December 9, 2022 After years of political ping-ponging, the decision has been made: we’ll have the first new coal mine in thirty years in the UK. It will be located in Whitehaven, in Cumbria, and it’s meant to bring 500 direct jobs to an impoverished area that has often felt forgotten by central government. The indirect jobs in [...]
Rishi Sunak: My tax cuts are ‘clear dividing line’ with Labour December 4, 2023 The Prime Minister said the UK economy had “turned a corner” and that further tax cuts, following measures in last month’s Autumn Statement, were the “direction of travel”. Speaking to journalists en route to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, Sunak was quizzed on the date of the next election, the contents of the Tory [...]