THE FUTURE IS COMING READY OR NOT
Tweet The following speech talks about the looming collision between $6 trillion of investment in oil and gas over the next ten years and the agreement by governments to keep the rise in global...
View ArticleCHINA NIGHTMARE
Tweet This piece first appeared in Business Green The prospect of the Chinese becoming owners, managers and even constructors of nuclear power stations in Britain has caused anxiety...
View ArticleSPEECH AT E3G TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION – THE DECK AT THE NATIONAL...
Tweet REMARKS BY MR TOM BURKE CBE AT THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FOR E3G, THE DECK AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE, JULY 2ND 2014. First of all, let me … Continue reading →
View ArticleTHE POWER OF DREAMS
Tweet This piece first appeared in The Guardian on Thursday 10th July It has always been difficult to see what was attractive about the proposed deal with EDF to build a … Continue...
View ArticleNO-ONE HOME
Tweet This piece first appeared in BusinessGreen There is no-one at home in Britain’s political parties. Increasingly they are empty shells with ever fewer members. On a good day less than 400,000...
View ArticleTHE FRAGILE CITY AND THE RISK NEXUS
Tweet This is a new short book I have written with leading urbanist Charles Landry. It brings together for the first time two disconnected narratives. The first is … Continue...
View ArticleTusk – not as bad for climate as it first appears?
Tweet This piece first appeared on the E3G website The appointment of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, to replace Van Rompuy as President of the European Council has provoked...
View Article‘IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID’
Tweet When the debate on the Fourth Carbon Budget began in Whitehall in 2012 the Treasury had a clear view. No. Meeting its requirements would be too damaging to Britain’s economy. …...
View ArticleTackling climate change is more of an opportunity than a threat
Tweet Here are three pieces I have done this week for the BBC and Sky News. They are about Ban Ki Moon’s climate summit in New York. A key point that I make is that climate change … Continue...
View ArticleSTANDING OUR GROUND
Tweet This piece was first published by Friends Of The Earth here On a very cold morning forty years ago I got into a bright red Mini outside the FoE offices in Poland Street. Together with John...
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