In a lecture at the end of December, Lord Stern reiterated his message that the business community and politicians need to act, and act now, on carbon emissions if we are to avoid, what he termed, a catastrophe by the next century.

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As far back as the beginning of 2008, Gordon Brown supported the implementation of a nuclear energy strategy to go some way to meeting the challenges of climate change and the fast diminishing supply of carbon based energy resource, in the publication of the White Paper on Nuclear Energy (Meeting the Energy Challenge).
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Since we owe much of our global financial predicament to our cousins across the pond, despite which we seem ever more to emulate their practices in all the wrong ways, I suppose a brief review of where the USA ‘is at’ with regard to an improved approach to carbon reduction and carbon energy conservation is not out of order. 2010 has begun for the Americans mainly with the embarrassment of the underpants bomber only demonstrated that US security is still weak, communications are poor and still took the President too long to respond publicly to the situation; so what did they do in 2009?
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As we struggle our way into 2010 through ice and snow - with airports, rail services and roads all disrupted as we appear to be getting our seasons back with a vengeance – what lessons can be learned from the last year?
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COP15, or the UN Climate Conference, which has been taking place in Copenhagen this week and last has turned into a, not surprisingly, muddled affair.
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Recent reports are highlighting the growing involvement of the trade union movement in driving a greener economy. In a reversal of traditional allegiances, the union movement is growing more vocal in holding the government to account for the promised delivery of green jobs in the economy.
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Whilst the energy poverty debate remains just that - a debate - and a firm commitment to carbon emission reduction is becoming more diluted with every pre-Copenhagen meeting and conference that takes place in the run up to next month, we continue to be fed the placebo that is carbon capture and storage (CCS).
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Last week saw the great and the good (well, their lower level ‘mini-me’s’, anyway) gathering in Barcelona in a pre-Copenhagen summit.
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On the issue of Cemex and the River Avon.
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A report, compiled and published by The Green Fiscal Commission, (read it here), proposes a radical rethink of our taxation system that has the potential to not only assist the UK in reaching its 2020 carbon reduction targets but also create a taxation model more relevant to the 21st century.
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