This piece originally appeared on Left Foot Forward. New research from environmental think tank the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) reveals the scale of the green investment challenge facing the UK. The Green Investment Gap report (pdf) shows that Britain…
The Green Investment Gap is the first comprehensive audit of UK green investment, launched today by PIRC. The Coalition Government has declared it wishes to be ‘the greenest government ever’. In a time of fiscal retrenchment and huge cuts in…
This piece was originally published on Left Foot Forward. It is the received wisdom that the UK’s emissions are falling. But this is not the case. As academic studies and government briefings show, the UK’s emissions continue to rise, once you factor in the…
This piece by Guy Shrubsole originally appeared on openDemocracy. “One of the easiest ways for the United Kingdom to meet its carbon reduction targets,” stated the Liberal Democract peer Lord Teverson in 2010, “is to send offshore even more of…
This piece by Alex Randall and Guy Shrubsole was originally published on Guardian Comment is Free. Last week the Guardian reported that the UK”s carbon emissions have dropped. In fact they”ve gone up. New material released under the Freedom of Information Act (FoI)…
Remember the Sustainable Development Commission? For ten years it”s been trying to get Government to embed sustainability into its operations and policies – until last July the Coalition pulled the plug on its funding. The SDC is currently sitting on…
A new report released yesterday, Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs): a policy framework for peak oil and climate change, makes a valuable contribution to the debate about how policies affect public values.
This is a guest post by Jon Alexander, who writes for Conservation Economy, a blog about what the marketing & communications industry should do in an economy not based on consumption. This post appeared in its original form back in October 2010. …
We were honoured when our Climate Safety report, with its recommendation to cut UK emissions 10% by 2010, helped inspire Franny Armstrong to create the 10:10 campaign. PIRC was asked by 10:10 in autumn 2009 to put together a study of policies that could…
George Marshall is Founder and Director of Projects at the Climate Outreach Information Network, he blogs at climatedenial.org. A movie that is now being launched in the UK called Collapse shows Michael Ruppert chain-smoking his way through visions of social…