Gordon Brown: 1/17 of 17
Industrial nations must tackle deforestation at Copenhagen, say MPs
Ecologist
30th June, 2009
A Commons environmental audit committee has called for industrialised nations to change their patterns of consumption if alarming rates of global deforestation are to be arrested and reversed more...
Brown proposes £60 billion climate fund for Copenhagen
Ecologist
26th June, 2009
Gordon Brown called for an annual fund of £60 billion to help less industrialised countries adapt to climate change as part of a range of Government proposals in the run-up to UN talks in Copenhagen later this year more...
Can environment-backed currency pay off?
Molly Scott Cato
1st April, 2009
The creation of a new and neutral currency unit linked to the environment would stabilise the economy and reduce CO2. more...
An eco injection
Joss Garman
30th April, 2009
Barack Obama and Ban Ki Moon, Labour and the Conservatives, green groups and trade unionists, Nicholas Stern and even Peter Mandelson - everybody is talking about a 'Green New Deal'. Faced with an economic downturn, climate breakdown and an energy system in need of billions of new investment anyway, the idea is simple and attractive. more...
By the way Prime Minister, I've just super-glued myself to your arm...
Dan Glass
24th July, 2008
Yesterday Plane Stupid activist Dan Glass stuck himself to the Prime Minister to protest against aviation. Here he explains why more...
Climate change politics
Joss Garman
19th June, 2008
As an excuse to do nothing itself, this Labour Government has often hidden behind US intransigence on climate change, so it’ll be interesting to see how Gordon Brown might respond to a US President more progressive than he on global warming. more...
Brown sets carbon-free electricity target for 2020
News
20th November, 2007
The UK will aim to meet all its electricity needs from low carbon sources, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday. more...
New nuclear consultation a 'sham'
News
7th September, 2007
The Government’s second attempt at a fair and legal public consultation on nuclear power has been declared a ‘sham’ by leading environmental groups. more...
Brown demotes Energy and Environment Committee
News
6th August, 2007
Gordon Brown will no longer chair the high-level Ministerial Committee on Energy and the Environment, the Independent has reported. more...
The Ecologist's 'Real Green Budget'
Mark Anslow
23rd March, 2007
Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment. more...
Budget leaps but fails
News
22nd March, 2007
Gordon Brown’s ‘green budget’ has met with scorn from the motoring lobby and disappointment from environmentalists. more...
Not so much 'green' as 'cabbage looking'
Molly Scott Cato
22nd March, 2007
Gordon Brown's Budget was disappointing. But not just because of its economic niceties. It fails to address key issues which have become taboo amongst economists - money, debt and economic growth. Molly Scott Cato, a green economist and Senior Lecturer in Social Economy at the Cardiff School of Management, addresses all three... more...
Gordon Brown: 1/17 of 17
How 'green' was Gordon?
Miriam Kennet
22nd March, 2007
Environmentalists held their breath in expectation of Gordon Brown's 'green' budget. Was it worth the wait? Miriam Kennet, a director of the Green Economics Institute, looks at where the Chancellor went awry... more...
Gordon's 'green budget' to lightly slap 4x4s
news
19th March, 2007
Wednesday’s Budget is expected to increase taxes on the most polluting cars, but only by £200, some £1,400 short of recommendations made by Friends of the Earth. more...
Climate Change Botch?
Isabel Hilton
15th March, 2007
The publication of the government's draft Climate Change Bill this week signalled the latest round of the escalating competition between David Cameron and Tony Blair to take the title of climate change champion of the world. Following hard on the EU measures, the government's bill set out more radical targets than before and promises to deliver them – a promise that will be reinforced by a new committee of independent auditors. more...
Conservatives vie with Brown over green taxes
News
12th March, 2007
The Conservative party has unveiled new taxes on aviation in a bid to control increasing carbon dioxide emissions from the sector. more...
Re-writing the pre-budget report
Paul Kingsnorth
7th December, 2006
The Chancellor's pre-budget report on Wednesday 6th December was a green-washed shambles. Paul Kingsnorth gives Gordon a helping hand with the re-write more...Members
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