Former Green Alliance director, CPRE chief executive, and Labour & Co-op MEP. Rochester resident, ever hopeful Gills supporter.
Latest blog is on how Kemi Badenoch can insist she’s not a climate denier, but she clearly doesn’t understand the nature of the threat, fails to comprehend why net zero was adopted, and currently has no plan on how to cut emissions. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
A hot messy summerAs the wildfires rage, what passes for climate discourse on the right of British politics is plumbing depressing new depthswww.businessgreen.com
On the day of Andy Burnham's entrance into Downing Street, LCEF's Director @paulmcnamee.bsky.social writes on how climate and environmental ambition speaks to the people from all parts of the UK. Read it here: lcef.co.uk/blog/good-ne...
As Andy Burnham contemplates “drill, baby, drill” for the North Sea - a little reminder of why it would be electoral madness to desert net zero, whatever Tony Blair and the Treasury might think www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Act on the evidence outside the window’: Andy Burnham urged to stick to net zero targets if he becomes PMBurnham is coming under pressure from some to ditch net zero targets but this could be highly damaging on many levelswww.theguardian.comThis is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.