Making John Redwood angry – it’s nothing personal
Tweet This article first appeared in Business Green on the 17th February 2014 I recently made John Redwood MP very cross. He was so cross he accused me of making ‘a very unpleasant personal...
View ArticleMAKERS AND TAKERS
Tweet This article first appeared in Business Green. The public discourse on climate policy is asymmetric. It has been dominated by the climate makers. These are the fossil fuel industries and...
View ArticleTHE FRAGILE CITY AND THE RISK NEXUS
Tweet This is a new short book I have written with leading urbanist Charles Landry. It brings together for the first time two disconnected narratives. The first is … Continue...
View ArticleTHE FOSSIL FUEL PARADOX
This blog was first published by BusinessGreen A debate over the real value of investment in fossil fuels has raged all summer. September’s climate summit in New York brought it...
View ArticleCLIMATE: National security concerns could spur Hill action — ex-DOD officials?
This is a report by Environment & Energy Publishing of the panel I spoke on at the Atlantic Council event Climate Security: The Next ‘Battle Ground’? on June 17, 2015 in Washington DC The...
View ArticleNEGOTIATIONS: Warming’s impact on global security a critical issue for Paris...
Here is another report of the panel I spoke on at the Atlantic Council event Climate Security: The Next ‘Battle Ground’? on June 17, 2015 in Washington DC. NEGOTIATIONS: Warming’s impact on...
View ArticleREMARKS ON CLIMATE AND SECURITY AT THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL – WASHINGTON DC –...
This is the address I gave at the Atlantic Council event Climate Security: The Next ‘Battle Ground’? on June 17, 2015 in Washington DC. Security professionals often...
View ArticleDiscussing Syria, conflict and climate change on Sky News
Climate Change is a threat multiplier, and when you have an already stressed situation as you had in Syria, and then you add the extra stress caused by climate change, in this case the very...
View ArticleEven if the global warming scare were a hoax, we would still need it – The...
This article was first published in The Telegraph China is the low-carbon superpower and will be the ultimate enforcer of the COP21 climate deal in Paris By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Chinese...
View ArticleWhy are we so bad at responding to floods? – Tom Burke – LBC – 28 Dec 15
LBC: Lets speak to Tom Burke, he’s an environmentalist, and a former government adviser on the environment. Good morning Tom. Do you think that the government was warned about this or...
View ArticleWill flood exercises better prepare us? – Sky News – 12 Sep 16
Sky News: The Environment agency is beginning to prepare for the winter months ahead, they are training with new barriers, pumps, vehicles and drones to test their flood responses. Well,...
View ArticleAl Jazeera – Earth Overshoot Day marks unprecedented environmental damages –...
Al Jazeera: I am joined now by Tom Burke, he is chairman of the environmental think tank E3G, and has advised a number of senior British politicians, thanks so much for being with us. How...
View ArticleSky News – Discussing Al Gore’s new film on climate change “An Inconvenient...
Sky news: With me now in the studio is Tom Burke, a former senior adviser to the foreign secretary’s special representative on climate change, and now the chairman of third generation...
View ArticleWhat does Brexit mean for Environmental Legislation in the UK – Guardian Podcast
One of the things that you get out of our membership of the EU is an enormous amount of regulatory stability. It takes a very long time to create environmental legislation, but then it is very...
View ArticleON THE BREAKING OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROMISES
There are a great many champions of the environment in Britain. Between them, our environmental bodies have several times the membership of all the political parties in Britain combined. They...
View ArticleClimate justice and development – The Oxford Forum on International Development
There are three key points I want to make about climate justice and development. The first is that climate change…
View ArticleA CLIMATE OF TRUST
The core argument of this lecture is that failure of climate change policy represents an existential threat to civilisation that…
View ArticleIs this the end of fracking? – LBC
I did an interview for LBC on Sunday 13th October with Ian Payne. The discussion was “Is this the end…
View ArticleClimate change threatens food, energy and water security – LBC
Climate Policy failure is what David Attenborough was talking about. If we fail to keep the increase in temperature below 2 degrees centigrade, then what we are threatening is food, energy and water...
View ArticleDEMOCRACY, LAW AND THE ENVIRONMENT – UKELA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2021
This is a speech I gave at the UKELA annual conference 2021. In summary, I argue that the rule of law will not long survive a failure to maintain the ecological foundations of the economy. The climate...
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