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Greenpeace post
13th May 2013
Dr Doug Parr

As is too often the case in climate and energy issues, the real story is revealed by low-key documents not by up front debate.

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7th May 2013
Liam Kirkaldy

In the next few days, and for the first time in human history, the concentration of CO2 in theatmosphere will hit 400 parts per million (ppm), a level long seen as critical in measuring the damagedone to the earth by man-made pollution.

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30th Apr 2013
Damian Kahya

The fight over whether or not we should go fracking in the UK is getting reasonably dirty - we fact-check Peter Lilley's latest claims.

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29th Apr 2013
Reg Platt,

Last week, an influential former Conservative cabinet minister, John Penrose, published proposals for a new approach to regulation of the energy sector. Penrose’s acknowledgement of problems in the sector is to be welcomed but we need to think bigger to ensure consumers aren’t ripped off and that the power of the big energy companies is reigned in.

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23rd Apr 2013
Sam Friggens

As debate around the latest incarnation of the controversial Severn Barrage scheme rumbles on, an alternative vision for renewable energy in the Bristol Channel promises comparable amounts of power, less environmental damage and better long-term economic prospects. So is it time for a rethink?

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23rd Apr 2013
Graham Thompson

This week the Office of National Statistics will tell us if Britain has slipped into a ‘triple dip’ recession, and if the news is grim we may be treated to the sight of George Osborne – the most stridently anti-environment Chancellor for a generation – blaming it all on climate change.

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18th Apr 2013
Guy Newey
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The European Parliament’s decision to vote down a proposal to temporarily remove permits from the EU Emissions Trading System has sparked an outcry of doom-mongery that carbon trading is dead.

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16th Apr 2013
Will Straw
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Around the world, governments are responding to the threat of man-made climate change and exposure to the costs of imported oil and gas by tightening regulations on vehicle emissions.

Guest post
9th Apr 2013
Srinivas Krishnaswamy

On a cold winter’s morning, the 11th of January 2010, when the Prime Minister of India announced the launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, with a target of a deploying 20,000 MW of Solar power by 2022, many of us, hard core solar enthusiasts, read the news with much scepticism

Guest post
9th Apr 2013
Ed Gill

If we’re going to get to the root of the challenges of sustainably securing our energy supplies whilst decarbonising the energy sector, then we need to think again about just what our existing reliance on fossil fuels means for us all.