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Wasting the biomass opportunity

Andrew Welfle By Andrew Welfle Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: June 18, 2014

The UK could generate almost half its energy needs by 2050 from UK biomass sources, including household rubbish, agricultural residues and home-grown biofuels. Unless we plan and invest for this, we will waste a great opportunity, argues Andrew Welfle. As much as 44% of our total energy requirement could be met by the potential abundance of […]

Tagged With: bioenergy, biofuels, biomass, climate change, Climate Change Act, energy, greenhouse gases, Kyoto, wastes

Are we really weather resilient?

David SchultzVladimir Janković By David Schultz and Vladimir Janković Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: June 11, 2014

Policymakers at home and abroad need to stop conflating climate change and climate resiliency, and start doing more to ensure our infrastructure can cope with extreme weather, say Prof David Schultz and Dr Vladimir Janković,  High-impact weather events, such as the UK floods earlier this year, are often accompanied by discussion of whether the events were associated with or enhanced by climate change. This view […]

Tagged With: carbon reduction, climate change, Climate Resilience Fund, floods, weather resilience

Russian energy policy at a crossroads

Maria Sharmina By Maria Sharmina Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: June 4, 2014

The Ukraine crisis has focused attention on Western Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas supplies. But the significance of Russia’s energy policy is much wider than this – and could be central to the global response to climate change, explains Dr Maria Sharmina. Russia has a pivotal role in shaping the future direction of […]

Tagged With: carbon emissions, climate change, energy policy, fossil fuels, greenhouse gasses, permafrost, population movement, russia

Evidence ignored amid Lords committee’s bullishness on fracking

John Broderick By John Broderick Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: May 12, 2014

Last week a Lords Select Committee report backed “all out” development of a UK shale gas industry, pointing to compatibility with UK climate change commitments. But this conclusion flies in the face of a wealth of evidence to the contrary, writes Dr John Broderick. The message from last week’s House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee […]

Tagged With: 2°C, carbon, carbon budgets, climate change, fracking, IPCC, shale gas

Green policymakers should take a cue from Quorn’s success

Claire Hoolohan By Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: April 30, 2014

Last week Quorn announced it will invest £30m in its County Durham factory following significant sales growth in recent years. Claire Hoolohan argues that Quorn’s success is a signal to governments, policy makers, academics, and others that the time has arrived to move forward on the sustainable food agenda. Reducing the amount of meat in […]

Tagged With: climate change, food, food security, greenhouse gases, production, Quorn, supply chain, sustainability

Towards sustainable consumption: start by reframing the questions

Daniel WelchNicola Spurling By Daniel Welch and Nicola Spurling Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: April 22, 2014

Sustainable consumption is all too often framed in terms of individuals’ choices. The social practice perspective offers an alternative model, argue Dr Daniel Welch and Dr Nicola Spurling. “Do you find it easy to follow a sustainable lifestyle? Do you switch off every light? Plan each meal to avoid food waste? Why is behaviour change […]

Tagged With: climate change, consumer behaviour, ecology, International Panel on Climate Change, sustainability, Sustainable Practices Working Group, waste

airplane flying over clouds

Evangelising from 32,000 feet: why call for more greens to fly is wrong

Kevin Anderson By Kevin Anderson Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: December 11, 2013

In November 2013, Brendan May wrote a piece for the Guardian’s Environment Blog on ‘Why more environmentalists should fly’. In this article, Professor Kevin Anderson, Dr Dan Calverley and Maria Sharmina respond, strongly arguing the case against having more jet-setting greens.  It was with growing dismay that we read Brendan May’s blog post, in which […]

Tagged With: 2 degrees, aviation, climate change, emissions, environmentalists, flying, global warming, green, mitigation

A fair COP? Climate summit good for engagement, but progress was oh so slow

Alice Larkin By Alice Larkin Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: November 27, 2013

At last week’s Conference of the Parties (COP) in Warsaw, key figures met to discuss the small matter of how to combat climate change by cutting carbon emissions. Dr Alice Bows-Larkin travelled there with colleagues, using research to highlight to policy players just how much carbon emissions need to be cut if catastrophic temperature rises […]

Tagged With: 2 degrees, 2°C, carbon, climate change, COP, Tyndall, Warsaw

Nuclear has come in from the cold, but now we must act to preserve our energy expertise

Francis Livens By Francis Livens Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: November 20, 2013

The UK is to get its first new nuclear power station in a generation. Professor Francis Livens reflects on a policy shift that has seen nuclear power emerge from the wilderness to become a much-hailed clean source energy that will ‘help keep the lights on’. But, he warns, if nuclear is to be our future, […]

Tagged With: carbon reduction, climate change, Dalton Nuclear Institute, edf energy, energy, energy policy, Hinckley, nuclear, nuclear power, Sizewell B

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