A letter from Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director, published in the Financial Times, highlighting that governments in the UK and elsewhere need to face up to and address the end of the fossil fuel era. Read more
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BBC Newsnight piece considers the impact of COVID-19 on efforts to tackle climate and air pollution. Starts at 22:37. 14... Read more
Bob Ward discusses two new books written by prominent ‘lukewarmers’: False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the... Read more
Josh Burke responds to reports of a record period without coal power in the UK. In this article he is quoted as saying the economics were not very compelling before for coal we not compelling before the COVID-19 pandemic and that he doesn't believe the situation will improve in the current climate. Read more
As the world seeks to recover from COVID-19 a similar agreement to that of the Bretton Woods is needed to help establish a position on issues such as the price of carbon emissions says Nicholas Stern in this interview with El Pais. Read more
Media coverage of the UK’s sunniest spring on record fails to recognise the risks associated with such conditions & the links between unusual weather events & climate change says Bob Ward in this news article in The Guardian. Read more
Swenja Surminski discusses the impact of climate change on the UK housing sector. In this interview with Future Housing she outlines three major risk categories facing the sector: physical, transition and litigation and liability risk. She also discusses the importance of ensuring that post-COVID-19 recovery measures take account of climate targets. Read more
Coastal communities in India are confronting the effects of sea-level rise, erosion, flooding, and cyclones. This article examines displacement and migration from Odisha, the Sundarbans delta, and Majuli island in the state of Assam, examining national and state responses and the principles that could inform the design of policies to address displacement due to climate-related hazards. Read more
Monetary and macroprudential authorities must help in the push for climate change mitigation strategies, write Ghassane Benmir and Josselin Roman. Read more
This article considers how airlines will seek to address climate change as the industry looks to recover from the impact... Read more
