Europe's new targets for carbon emissions and renewable energy are severely retrograde and fly in the face of both science and economics. They will endanger climate and retard the renewable energy revolution.
… and fly in the face of both science and economics. They will endanger climate and … "Second, politics frequently trumps economics in the real world, and when …
What can we expect of December’s meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland? The main question will be how to follow the Kyoto Protocol’s first ‘commitment period’, which ends in 2012.
… Change Campaigns Climate Change Politics And Economics Kyot2_MAIN.jpg What can we expect of … by Ireland’s Feasta (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability), and ‘cap and …
The 'Autumn Statement' delivered with such aplomb by the Chancellor is yet another attack on the UK's sustainable future, write David Lowry & Oliver Tickell - cutting energy efficiency funds just as tens of thousands are set to die of cold this winter, betting £250m on pointless nuclear research, and raiding the renewables budget to fund subsidies to nuclear power and fossil fuels.
… obligation (ECO) scheme. Friends of the Earth economics campaigner David Powell observed: …
Hydropowered countries suffer higher levels of poverty, corruption and debt than other nations, new study finds.
No more Hoover dams Marianne Brooker | 15th April 2019 News Hoover Dam Poverty Hydropower Science And Systems mike_ocallaghan-pat_tillman_memorial_bridge_view_from_hoover_dam.jpg Hydropowered …
Campaigners fear that the abolition of DECC, the department of energy and climate change, indicates that climate will take a low priority in Theresa May's policy agenda. Meanwhile the pro-fracking, pro-nuclear Andrea Leadsom is in charge of environment department Defra.
… News Politics UK Energy Climate Change Brexit Economics leadsom-cut.jpg Campaigners fear … Devlin, Environmental Economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), described DECC's …
Ecuador's protected forests to define Rights of Nature and test jurisprudence in country’s Constitutional Court.
Defending Ecuador’s Los Cedros forest Marianne Brooker | 14th July 2020 News Ecuador Mining Conservation Thought Leaders Los Cedros Ecuador's protected forests to define Rights of Nature and test …
The UK is embarking on a reckless endeavour in its attempted nuclear union with China, write David Lowry & Oliver Tickell. China's investments will come at a high price, one that transcends mere money and the undoubted security risk inherent in its control of key elements of our energy infrastructure. At risk is the UK's very future as a sovereign, independent nation.
The UK-China nuclear deal is an existential threat to our nation's future Dr David Lowry Oliver Tickell | 20th October 2015 News China UK Nuclear WMD Finance Politics sizewell-cut.jpg The UK is …
Supporters of Greece's fight for sovereignty are unanimous in blaming the evil troika for its humiliating defeat, writes Oliver Tickell. But the real fault is with Syriza for their needless, shameful surrender. Now, as the real battle begins, we must hold firm with the Greek people against neoliberal occupation.
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Two key wildlife laws that underpin nature conservation across the EU will be retained intact, the EU Commission announced today after an 18 month review that generated record public engagement due to fears that they would be weakened. Now campaigners are determined to ensure the UK retains the laws post-Brexit.
Vital EU wildlife laws saved! But will UK keep them after Brexit? Oliver Tickell | 7th December 2016 News EU Politics UK Natural World Conservation Law butterfly-cut.jpg Two key wildlife laws that …
The official 'fitness test' on the EU's nature directives carried out for the EU Commission under its 'better regulation' initiative finds that the laws are 'fit for purpose' in every respect, writes Oliver Tickell. But there's a mystery: the report was completed in January, yet it remains unpublished. Did it reach the 'wrong' conclusion for a Commission intent on a bonfire of red tape?
Leaked official report: EU Nature Directives are 'fit for purpose' Oliver Tickell | 16th June 2016 News EU Law Conservation Regulation kemeri-cut.jpg The official 'fitness test' on the EU's nature …
China has now overtaken the European Union as the largest new market for solar power, writes Paul Brown - as solar PV becomes one of the world's fastest growing industries - and one that's sure to keep on getting cheaper!
… Tickell | 4th February 2015 News Renewables Economics Solar Wind EU Africa China Asia … in the grid, notes the report, "the economics of integration is of growing …
What does it mean to create art in the context of climate crisis? How do we create sustainable, engaging, and critical performance acts and spaces? Birkbeck’s Centre for Contemporary Theatre hosted a one-day symposium to explore the connections between theatre and ecology, reports MARIANNE BROOKER
Creative climate: towards an ecological theatre Marianne Brooker | 16th May 2018 Comment Climate Change Theatre 8_beecomposed-4.jpg What does it mean to create art in the context of climate crisis? …
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the withdrawal of an ad extolling the virtues of fracking, ruling that it is misleading, exaggerating, and lacks substantiation. In the process it has undermined the Government's entire case for fracking in the UK.
'Misleading' fracking ad 'must not appear again' Oliver Tickell | 3rd September 2014 News UK Fracking Politics USA fracking-well-louisiana-cut.jpg The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered …
The UK's troubled Hinkley C nuclear power station faces a legal challenge from Germany's biggest energy co-op, which claims that the subsidy package will distort energy markets across Europe and disadvantage renewable generators and vendors.
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Greece's economic woes will never be solved by merely moving money around the banking system, writes Oliver Tickell. The lasting solution is to restore native forests to her barren hills and mountains, invest in large-scale solar power to energise Europe, and create an examplar of sustainable development for our global future.
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The Law Commission says the UK's wildlife agencies should be able to compel landowners to clear invasive exotic plants and animals from their land, or enter land and do it themselves.
Exterminate! New law to compel landowners to kill off exotics Oliver Tickell | 11th February 2014 News Exotic Species UK Law giant-hogweed.png The Law Commission says the UK's wildlife agencies …
Sue Lloyd Roberts, the brilliant investigative journalist who died yesterday, was a unique phenomenon in the BBC, writes Oliver Tickell - fearless, rooting out the dirtiest of secrets, fighting the cause of the oppressed, abused, exploited and downtrodden. Now the BBC must keep her mission alive with a new, independent unit dedicated to human rights worldwide.
Sue Lloyd Roberts - the BBC must make sure her work continues Oliver Tickell | 14th October 2015 Comment Media Human Rights Water Indigenous Peoples Forests Malaysia sue-lloyd-roberts-cut.jpg Sue …
The Ecologist stands in solidarity with university workers who are taking action and we encourage our readers and other media platforms to do so too.
Support the UCU strike Marianne Brooker | 28th February 2020 News Editor’s Picks UCU UKYCC Strike Climate Industrial Action picture_1.png The Ecologist stands in solidarity with university workers …
The real significance of last night's TV debate was the vigorous assertion of a new progressive politics in Britain, expressed by the 'trimulierate' of female party leaders from the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru - the three sharing a positive vision of a green, fair, inclusive future in which all participate in the nation's prosperity.
… in their desire for an end to the madhouse economics of austerity - whose real purpose is …