It must have been incredibly dispiriting, and at times scary, to have spent the holidays in the north of the British Isles being inundated with torrential rain day after day as Desmond (not me!), Eva and Frank swept in from the west. Two years ago, it was the south & west that bore the brunt…
Suffice it to say, initially, that I believe the world’s present-day managed and semi-natural forest areas can sustainably produce a much greater biomass yield than they do, at present, and thus provide reliable energy, with some degree of carbon savings, while incurring no land use change at all. This is what the consultants’ reports tell…
From its origins in the coffee houses of London during the late seventeenth century until now, the modern insurance industry has always been affected by the vagaries of the weather. The Lutine Bell traditionally rang out in the Lloyd’s Building in London to alert underwriters to impending bad news like the sinking of a merchantman…
Climate-driven divestment is all the rage. Recent high-profile announcements by large investors, such as the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, that they are considering selling out of companies whose business relies on the production or consumption of coal has set the cat among the pigeons in the fossil fuels world. The coal lobby has denounced the…
Not being an experienced observer of the political machine at work hasn’t deterred me from mulling over what the first few weeks of a new Government mean for energy. Amber Rudd MP, our new Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, blogged on 27 May 2015; what did she say? It might be more…
Often, giving people a reason to think or act in a certain way is one of the most powerful tools one can employ. The hope of those concerned about climate change is that these reasons can be mutually communicated and agreed at the Conference of the Parties (to the UNFCCC) in Paris later this year.…
Insurance & Climate change My day was brightened this morning by noticing a colourful advertisement in my newspaper of choice for the new Coral Reefs – Secret Cities of the Seas exhibition which is being staged by the Natural History Museum. It was not so much the witty depiction of the reef denizens as stay …
Politicians from five political parties have clashed in a recent BBC TV debate over action to tackle climate change – with UKIP arguing it is not caused by humans. So how do the Parties shape up on energy? Matt Hancock (Con) praised the government’s record on reducing carbon emissions. But Ed Davey (Lib Dems) had…