An interview with World Resources Institute decarbonisation specialist, Kelly Levin.
… we thought to a lot of these tipping points. Coal NB: One of the biggest causes seems to be use of coal in terms of attributable source. Does the … any proposed strategy for getting away from coal faster? KL: The good news is that the …
The Ecologist’s political writer, Bibi van der Zee, meets Caroline Flint, Labour’s shadow secretary on energy and climate change.
… on to make an interesting reference to the coal mines which pock her area of South … people came to Doncaster and said there’s coal under there, well, it’s interesting how … yourselves and just get on with it!” The coal-mining history of Flint’s constituency …
The Ecologist’s political writer, Bibi van der Zee, meets Caroline Flint, Labour’s shadow secretary on energy and climate change
… on to make an interesting reference to the coal mines which pock her area of South … people came to Doncaster and said there’s coal under there, well, it’s interesting how … yourselves and just get on with it!” The coal-mining history of Flint’s constituency …
Bibi van der Zee discovers there is no excuse for Britain – still struggling with an energy system built for the 1950s – not to construct a new and greener energy system fit for the 21st century. All that is lacking is the political will.
… been a simple log of wood, and then a lump of coal. But these days every variety of fuel … the potential to produce energy for us – oil, coal, gas, nuclear, wind, water, sun, and an … freighted with its own lobby and anxieties. Coal is cheap and available domestically, but …
The backing of Cameron, Clegg and Kofi Annan isn't enough, say Climate Week's critics, it is blinkered – and RBS-sponsored. Bibi van der Zee reports
… at all to the way that it finances oil, coal and gas companies'. He points to RBS's … Environment Network READ MORE... COMMENT COALITION GREEN WATCH: Will the Tory Lib-Dem … NEWS UK urged to stop funding dirty coal power stations overseas Overseas aid …
The IPCC's 'Representative Concentration Pathways' are based on fantasy technology that must draw massive volumes of CO2 out of the atmosphere late this century, writes Nick Breeze - an unjustified hope that conceals a very bleak future for Earth, and humanity.
… claim we have a few decades of safely burning coal, oil and gas is an utter nonsense. … iron ore on that scale. We don't even produce coal, oil or gas on that scale. Iron ore is … claim we have a few decades of safely burning coal, oil and gas is an utter nonsense. …
Planning - a dull subject that has a direct impact on some of the most important areas of our lives. One proposal to speed up planning has just been scrapped by the new Government. What will replace it, asks Bibi Van Der Zee
… What will the coalition Government do about planning law? … Planning Infrastructure Planning Commission Coalition Election 2010 … and whether they’re going to get the axe. The coalition Government included the announcement …
Japan’s lack of climate ambition - as the fifth largest global greenhouse gas emitter - is a risk to long-term global security.
… billion dollars and is one of the largest coal financiers in the world. If the level of … billion dollars and is one of the largest coal financiers in the world. …
Continuing her exclusive series - Coalition Green Watch - Bibi van der Zee further assesses David Cameron's pledge to head the 'greenest government in history' and, whilst the jury may still be out, finds alarming cause for concern...
… Continuing her exclusive series - Coalition Green Watch - Bibi van der Zee … our armchairs as one. A wonderful rainbow coalition formed almost immediately, and, … it tell us about the wider reality of the coalition’s green ambitions? There are two …
James Hansen is making his second visit to the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, COP23 in Bonn to declare the that the Paris Agreement “ambition” is a “hoax”. NICK BREEZE meets the man still raising the climate alarm.
… has to be across the board: oil, gas and coal. Not some cap and trade gimmick which …
'I'm more worried about human stupidity than I am about artificial intelligence!'
… impacts is quoted by the Loss & Damage Coalition to be $400 billion per annum . COP … With emissions still rising and all the major coal, oil and gas producers in the world, …
After the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, the undercover police scandal, the disbanding of Climate Camp - and the sudden rise of UK Uncut - Bibi van der Zee takes the temperature of Britain's green activism movement
… started talking, and Stop Climate Chaos coalition [the umbrella organisation for … specific emissions at source. So you’ve got coal action in Scotland, Manchester runway … where there have been huge campaigns against coal and nuclear which have forced the …
Who's the UK's foremost politician setting the agenda on climate change issues? Green MP Caroline Lucas, of course. Nick Breeze caught up with her at a COP21 event at the French National Assembly in Paris. The fossil fuel industry is in its last throes, she told him - but it's fighting back hard, and politicians are giving out very mixed messages: saying one thing, while doing another.
… 1.5C - so long as the world is still building coal and gas burning power stations and other …
Despite promises of a radical shake-up - followed by months of bickering - the new Energy Bill delivers business as usual with the big six energy companies still dominating our energy supplies, says Bibi van der Zee
… and climate change and dwindling supplies of coal brought about the Renewable Energy Act …
What is it about wind power that has grown men at each other’s throats and furiously frothing at the mouth? Greenpeace went under cover to discover what Bibi van der Zee has been telling us for weeks ….
… Wind farms are not beautiful, but neither are coal and gas-fired power stations. There are …
The Ecologist’s political writer, Bibi van der Zee, asks whether the German's energy policy is a crazy punt, or an example to be followed by other states.
… started out more or less ad hoc are slowly coalescing into something quite new and the … up the aim of the EEG as being “to replace coal and nuclear generated electricity with …
Professor Chris Rapley discusses the Climate Change Act 10 years on - and warns we are not acting on a 'scale or pace' to stay beneath the crucial 2ºC of warming. In this interview with NICK BREEZE, he balances the inadequacies of climate policy with the growing willingness of many people to take action
… mean, we have been through periods were coal contributed nothing to the UK electricity …
Film maker Nick Breeze has conducted a series of interviews with experts on 'geo-engineering' to forestall runaway global warming. Here he presents the distilled wisdom from his meetings - and concludes that we should at least be experimenting with the techniques, and studying their impacts.
… climate changes that are a result of burning coal, oil and gas, nor for ocean …