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We can't let Covid distract us from the climate crisis
The latest edition of the GlobeScan/SustainAbility Sustainability Leaders survey has just been released. Running since 1997, the study...
Delivering a Zero Carbon Britain
At the end of 2019, the Centre For Alternative Technology launched Zero Carbon Britain: Rising to the Climate Emergency, a bold but...
Is the post-Covid reduction in choice a problem or opportunity?
Choice. Like it or not, it's at the heart of Western consumerism. And one effect of Covid-19 has been there's less of it to go round....
Contracts for the boys
As everyone gets maybe a bit too overexcited by Rishi's latest bargain bonanza giveaways, we shouldn't let this distract from the other...
The politicisation of humanitarian aid undermines a just future
The Government has come under a lot of pressure from business leaders over recent weeks to deliver a green and just recovery post-Covid....
The benefits of reduced consumption as Britain kicks its coal habit for more than two months
Last week the Drax power station was brought online for regular maintenance. In doing so it contributed some coal-fired energy to the...
Follow UN sustainable development goals business leaders say
For the second time in as many weeks, business leaders have written to Boris Johnson asking him to put the environment and social justice...
It's time to renew normal
Social policy think-tank Demos has established a people's commission on life after Covid. Headed by commissioners from a range of...
No-deal Brexit will cause food shortages worse than coronavirus panic buying
These are the words of Andrew Opie, director of food at the British Retail Consortium, speaking to the Environment, Food and Rural...
We're only making plans for normal
Adam Curtis is the king of the cut-and-paste social commentary documentary, and this short is very much in that style (if not quite the...
Humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19
So says Dame Jane Morris Goodall, one of the world's leading primatologists and anthropologists. Particularly if we fail to drastically...
Air pollution: a health crisis as great as Covid-19 every year
We have seen a huge and necessary mobilisation to combat the impact of Covid-19 over recent months. Yet EVERY year in the UK alone there...
XR ask 'how normal was normal'?
Over the lockdown period we've seen many brands offering up self-serving 'thoughts and prayers' ads, usually full of empty streets and...
Carry On Governing or the overthrow of democracy?
Let's be clear: this may seem like a bit of harmless admin, with hints of Carry On Governing about the queuing system, but it's actually...
UK businesses ask Boris for a clean and just recovery
200 of the UK's top business leaders wrote to Boris Johnson yesterday asking him to deliver a post-Covid recovery plan that is 'clean and...
The Climate Emergency is a far greater risk than coronavirus
The World Economic Forum released their 2020 Global Risks Report in early Jan, just before Covid hit, which included this summary... It's...
What leadership under challenging conditions doesn't look like
Leadership requires credibility, consistency, empathy and trust if you want people to follow. So when Government science adviser Prof...
U-turns in politics should be seen as a good thing
Clearly this should have never happened in the first place. Particularly as it came hot on the heels of Priti Patel putting the boot in...
Give key workers a medal
Though this arguably falls into the 'thoughts and prayers' camp of Covid ads I'm generally quite scathing about, I've found myself liking...