The Environment: A Wicked Issue

To be honest I arrive at the subject of the environment with a very vague picture in my own mind as to the correct way to combat negative environmental change….We have had political targets, scientific targets, economic targets and social targets to respond to climate change, but we are yet to see a holistic approach [...]

The Copenhagen Blues ~Revisited

Will the UK have an impact at the Climate Change summit or is it all about Obama? Cheryl Brumley 18/10/09  Green has proven consistently in vogue no matter what the season. Leaders will don the colour – an accessory to their monochrome suits and stiff ties – to ramp up their “cool” factor. Fashion types, [...]

The Feed-in-Future: High electricity costs and a sustainable market

Cheryl Brumley I once sat in a basement floor room in a Whitehall building, with sleepy fluorescent lights above me in place of windows, writing stacks of letters on behalf of ministers. The words I wrote in some of these letters, I truly believed – though I must say many I typed with angry, grudging [...]

Why there will be no deal in Copenhagen

 Patrick Hogan In New York in late September, President Obama stood before nearly 100 global leaders at the United Nations’ one-day Summit on Climate Change and declared that ‘no nation, however large or small, wealthy or poor, can escape the impact of climate change’ and announced that the US was ‘determined to act’ at home [...]