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Successor body to Sustainable Development Commission is badly needed

The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) – the government’s official watchdog on sustainability matters – formally closed its doors yesterday, after being axed because of spending cuts. Its demise...

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Carbon Trust reveals UK emissions likely to rise into the 2020s

The Carbon Trust has today released new data revealing how the UK’s total carbon emissions are likely to rise into the 2020s, despite legally-binding targets to cut domestic emissions by a third. The...

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Committee on Climate Change must be free to investigate rising emissions

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is the UK government’s independent advisor on greenhouse gas emissions. Yet at present it is being prevented from investigating the ongoing rise in UK emissions....

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Compass book puts to Labour-Green co-operation

“To be at the heart of the progressive mainstream… one of our tasks is to learn the lessons of the green movement and put sustainability at the heart of what we do.” So said Ed Miliband in a speech to...

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Shale gas is not the answer to our energy problems – and here’s why

This weekend, protestors will gather near the small village of Hesketh Bank in Lancashire to protest against the onset of shale gas fracking – also known as hydraulic fracturing – in the UK. Shale gas...

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Is a ‘green populism’ possible, and can Labour help foster it?

Labour and greens need to work together to build a new populist politics of the environment, Maurice Glasman,architect of Blue Labour, argued at a Labour party conference fringe event last night. This...

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Shale gas fantasists and wind sceptics need to get real

  Another week, another blast of hot air from Britain’s small coterie of ‘alternative energy’ fantasists. I’m not talking about environmentalists here – who have been advocating truly alternative...

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The new dash for gas is utter folly

  . Over the weekend, the government quietly asphyxiated its climate change policy with a gas attack. Ministers announced that gas-fired power stations would be permitted to continue emitting carbon...

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Select committee calls on coalition to tackle Britain’s outsourced emissions

  . The influential Energy and Climate Change (ECC) Parliamentary select committee have today demanded the government take responsibility for the UK’s still-rising emissions, stating Britain “has to...

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It’s increasingly clear that human activity is influencing weather extremes

With households across the UK battling to cope with the floods and extreme weather, the political blame game is already in full flow. This weekend, Eric Pickles pointed an accusatory finger at the...

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